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.C.R. No. 187 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a flood abatement study for the lands in the area of Heeia to Kahuku and to conduct a community-based information campaign in those areas to identify concerns, damages, and opportunities and to gather information for use in the study.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by Hawaiian Marine Enterprises. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that the damage caused by recent heavy rains and flooding in the windward areas of Oahu have demonstrated an urgent need to examine flood abatement options in those areas. Your Committee also noted the statement by the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources that the Kahuku Flood Control Study was currently funded and ongoing. Therefore, the Kahuku area need not be included in this measure.

Accordingly, your Committee amended this measure by limiting the area covered by the study to those lands between Heeia and Laie and amending the title accordingly; deleting the three recital paragraphs pertaining to the Kahuku Flood study and the Kahuku area; and deleting the request to the Governor to release funds for the Kahuku Flood study.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 187, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 187, S.D. 1.