Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2771, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the planning of an agricultural park in Royal Kunia on the island of Oahu.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Agriculture, the City and County of Honolulu's Department of Planning and Permitting, C&H Farms, the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation.

Your Committee finds that a one hundred and fifty acre buffer area was recently dedicated to the State to separate the existing and future Royal Kunia residential development and activities on agricultural lands mauka of the residential development. As the next appropriate step, your Committee finds that a master plan is necessary for the proper and expeditious development of this land into an agricultural park.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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 H.B. No. 2771, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2771, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.