Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2722, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to reduce sediment flow into the Ala Wai Canal by providing vegetative cover and constructing retention basins for Manoa and Palolo streams.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Waikiki Improvement Association. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that improvement to the Ala Wai watershed is necessary to reduce pollution and protect the health and safety of the public. This goal can be accomplished by reducing sediment flow into the Ala Wai canal by constructing retention basins and providing vegetative cover along stream banks. Your Committee finds that this measure will provide the necessary moneys to accomplish these goals.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2722, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.