Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 36 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and to appropriate $2,500,000 from the proceeds to widen Waikiki Beach by replenishing the sand between the north Kuhio beach groin and the Kapahulu storm drain.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii Hotel Association, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Waikiki Improvement Association. The Board of Land and Natural Resources supported the intent of the measure.

Your Committee finds that because of opposition to some of the proposed beach restoration projects, the requested amount of $2,500,000 should be cut to $700,000 to be used only for sand recovery and replacement. This change was agreed upon by all parties involved.

Your Committee has amended the measure to reflect the agreed upon amount.

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. 36, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 36, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.