Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 82 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the President and Congress of the United States to continue their support and funding of Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami buoys.

Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami buoys enable the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to provide timely notice of a tsunami by improving its ability to accurately predict the size, speed, and impact of tsunami waves. Presently, buoy coverage is not adequate in the southeastern, northwestern, southwestern, and western portions of the Pacific Ocean. Continued funding is needed at the federal level to allow prompt and thorough maintenance of existing buoys and the deployment of additional buoys to provide the Hawaiian Islands with the highest possible level of early tsunami detection.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 82 and recommends its adoption.