Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1536, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general funds to the Department of Health as state matching funds to complete the Ala Wai canal trash trap cleanup project.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Health is working with a private contractor to automate the immediate removal of trash and debris from the "Ala Wai canal trash trap" through state-of-the-art technology. Absent such technology, debris removal has proven to be costly and time-consuming. Your Committee finds that federal matching funds have already been awarded to the project. Additional state funds are required to complete the project.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments. Your Committee has also amended this measure by specifying a $1 appropriation amount and by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1536, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1536, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.