Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 92, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge Hawaii's congressional delegation to work toward a national park status for the Kawainui Marsh Complex.

Your Committee has amended the Concurrent Resolution by deleting its title and contents and replacing it with a request of the President and Congress of the United States to restore funding for programs and measures to contain and eradicate alien species in Hawaii and to prevent the introduction of new invasive alien species.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of Agriculture, a State Representative representing South Hilo, the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, and two private citizens offered testimony in support of the measure. One private citizen offered comments on the original contents of the measure.

Your Committee finds that federal funds are urgently needed to help the State contain and eradicate a number of invasive species, especially the coqui frog and miconia plant, that pose a grave ecological and economic threat to the welfare of Hawaii.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 92, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 92, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.