Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3159 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to install renewable energy systems for a model kahua kauhale or encampment on Kaho'olawe and to enable an ongoing evaluation of renewable resources on the island.

Kaho`olawe Island Reserve Commission, the President of the Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club, and one individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committees find that the revitalization of Kaho`olawe represents a unique opportunity to build a model sustainable reserve based on innovative alternative energy and environmentally conscious technologies. Your Committee agrees with Kaho`olawe Island Reserve Commission that the use of such technologies is critical to ensuring compliance with the cultural, educational, and historical governing principles envisioned for the island and its water.

Your Committees amended this measure by making technical, non-substantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3159, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3159, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.