Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2575, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help preserve the traditional way of life along the Waianae Coast by appropriating funds to enable the completion of a baseline environmental study of the Waianae Coast ocean area.

Concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2575, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.