Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Energy, Environment, and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2484 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for vog monitoring stations on the island of Hawaii.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Health, Hawaii Invasive Species Management and Education Corporation, Pahoa Family Health Center, and four individuals.

Your Committees find that the Clean Air Branch of the Department of Health currently has three vog monitoring stations that measure sulfur dioxide in Hilo, Puna, and Kona. In addition, the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has two monitoring stations. However, these monitoring stations do not measure vog levels in other parts of the Puna district where thousands of residents are affected by significant amounts of vog emissions. This measure makes an appropriation to the Department of Health for two additional vog-monitoring stations in Mountain View and Pahala.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Energy, Environment, and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2484 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.