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. 3129 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to conduct a study to determine the best mitigation measure to control peak flows entering Lake Wilson from storms and to implement measures to prevent further downstream damage.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Castle and Cooke Homes Hawaii, Inc. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that severe storms cause massive volumes of water to flow into Lake Wilson in a short period of time and flood surrounding areas. Your Committee further finds that it is in the best interest of the State to determine and construct an effective means to mitigate or prevent further damage to property or loss of life caused by the flooding.

Your Committee believes that this measure will appropriate necessary funds to conduct a study to mitigate peak flows entering Lake Wilson and implement measures needed to prevent further damage.

Your Committee has amended this measure to remove the appropriated dollar amounts in sections 3 and 4, leaving the amounts to be determined by the Ways and Means Committee.

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. 3129, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3129, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.