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 S.B. No. 3096, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to complete the state agricultural water use and development plan.

Your Committee finds that the state agricultural water use and development plan is intended to provide an overview of all of the State's sources of agricultural water and set standards and priorities for the State. The initial report provided only a limited overview of some of the irrigation systems. The Department of Agriculture is currently completing phase 3 of the plan. Additional funding is needed to complete the plan.

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. 3096, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.