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 S.B. No. 1461, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to conduct, through the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, a pilot project for the Kaiaka Bay, Oahu watershed and action plan, as a model for statewide use.

Your Committee finds that Kaiaka Bay, Oahu, is an ideal location for a pilot watershed assessment and action plan that would eventually lead to the development of a statewide resource management model.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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 S.B. No. 1461, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1461, S.D. 2.