Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 3153, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds, to be matched by funds through Maui Ag Partners, for a pilot project in bioremediation research on former pineapple lands in West Maui, to be conducted by Maui Ag Partners and coordinated by the Pacific Cooperative Studies unit of the College of Natural Sciences and College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawaii.

The Department of Agriculture and College of Natural Sciences of the University of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill with budgetary concerns. Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc., testified in support of the intent of this measure with amendments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3153, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3153, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.