Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1293 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clean up the Salt Lake Waterway on Oahu by appropriating $400,000 as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu (City), to be matched by the City. This commitment of funds from the State is necessary to attract federal participation in the clean-up efforts.

The Salt Lake Waterway serves as a drainage basin for runoff from lands owned by the State, the City, the federal government, and private landowners. The Waterway also receives sewage effluent and other wastes from the Aliamanu Military Reservation. These waters eventually drain into Moanalua Stream and Keehi Lagoon.

Four current or former Salt Lake residents testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

Although your Committee has deleted the appropriation, it clearly supports efforts to restore the full appropriation to enable this deserving clean-up project to move forward.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1293, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1293, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.