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 S.B. No. 2516 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for acquiring land in Kahuku, on the island of Oahu, to expand the Kahuku agricultural park.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Aquatic Innovations, the Estate of James Campbell, Hawaii Aquaculture Association, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Koolauloa Agriculture Coalition and Hawaiian Marine Enterprises. Comments regarding this measure were also submitted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, and the State Board of Agriculture.

Your Committee amended the appropriation lapse date from June 30, 2007 to June 30, 2006, to comply with technical requirements.

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 S.B. No. 2516, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.