STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1312

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.C.R. No. 8

      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 Public Safety and Agriculture, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 8 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO PROVIDE FEDERAL AID TO ASSIST AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS IN VOG-IMPACTED AREAS IN MEETING THEIR WATER NEEDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to assist farmers who have been adversely impacted by the effects of vog on their crops by requesting the United States Department of Agriculture to provide federal aid to assist agricultural operations in vog-impacted areas in meeting their water needs.

     The Department of Agriculture supported this concurrent resolution.

     Your Committees have amended this concurrent resolution by including the members of Hawaii's congressional delegation as recipients of certified copies of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 8, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 8, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Agriculture,

____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair