STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1082

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1015

       H.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1015, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OUT OF THE BROWNFIELDS CLEANUP REVOLVING LOAN FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation out of the brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund to complete the disbursement of funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to clean up a contaminated site in Kapolei.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Jesse K. Souki, Interim Director, Office of Planning, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism received a grant of $2,000,000 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for a brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund program to clean up contaminated sites.

     Your Committee also finds that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism executed a loan with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to clean up a contaminated site in Kapolei.  The federal grant funds must be disbursed to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in fiscal year 2010-2011.  However, the amount of federal grant funds that remain to be disbursed exceeds the existing expenditure ceiling of $1,000,000.  This measure provides an emergency appropriation of an additional $1,000,000, for a total of $2,000,000 authorized for expenditure in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, from the brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund to complete the disbursement of funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and allow the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to meet its requirements under the federal grant.

     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 H.B. No. 1015, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair