STAND. COM. REP. NO. 472
Honolulu, Hawaii
S.D. 1
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 212, S.D. 1, entitled:
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Commission on Water Resource Management for two new positions.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Earthjustice, Hanalei Watershed Hui, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Sierra Club, and one individual.
Your Committee finds that the Commission on Water Resource Management's Stream Protection and Management Branch and the Survey Branch are in need of one position each to carry out their extensive duties. Specifically, this measure appropriates funds to provide for a:
(1) Hydrologist IV position to assist the Stream Protection and Management Branch's Instream Use Protection Section with testing to establish necessary instream flow standards; and
(2) Geologist I position to assist the understaffed Survey Branch with accomplishing its tasks of data analyses for aquifer tests, groundwater and surface water interaction, and groundwater interpretation, and advising other departments on geological matters.
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. 212, S.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,
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RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair |
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