Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 198 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to support the efforts of Hawaii's congressional delegation to ensure full funding for the Kaumalapau Harbor project on Lanai.

Your Committee received favorable testimony from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that the Kaumalapau Harbor on Lanai is the sole commercial harbor on the island and provides a critical service of receiving goods and materials for the people of Lanai. The harbor, however, was built in the early 1920s and requires extensive repairs to its aging structure due to storm damage during the 1980s and 1990s.

Despite past objections by the President of the United States and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the repair work will commence as soon as a bidding protest is resolved.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 198 and recommends its adoption.