Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 222 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request that the Department of Health review and strengthen its water quality standards and practices.

The Department of Health provided testimony in opposition to this concurrent resolution.

Your Committee finds that stringent standards are necessary to assure that residents in areas such as upcountry Maui have access to a safe supply of drinking water.

As such, this concurrent resolution has been amended to focus the efforts of the Department of Health on the quality of drinking water in upcountry Maui.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 222, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 222, H.D. 1.