Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 3168, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the counties to grant, sell, or otherwise dispose of easements for chilled water and seawater distribution systems for renewable energy seawater air conditioning district cooling systems by negotiation without public auction.

Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning, LLC and the Hawaii Renewable Energy Alliance submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date from July 1, 2050, to upon its approval.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3168, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3168, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.