STAND. COM. REP. NO.  520

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 1807

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER QUALITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Director of Health to use funds from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and other applicable federal Acts to provide financial assistance for the construction of necessary drinking water infrastructure projects for public water systems and necessary wastewater infrastructure projects for publicly-owned wastewater treatment works.

     The Department of Health and Department of Environmental Services of the City and County of Honolulu supported this bill.

     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 H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair

____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair