Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2771, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Agriculture to develop a master plan for an agricultural park in Royal Kunia.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Agriculture has acquired one hundred fifty acres of prime agricultural land in Royal Kunia and has designated it for agricultural park use. An agricultural park in Royal Kunia would not only serve to support agriculture in the State, but would also serve as a buffer between the urban and agricultural lands in the area.

This measure supports the establishment of an agricultural park in Royal Kunia by providing an unspecified amount to the Department of Agriculture for that purpose.

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. 2771, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.