STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2996

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2883

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2883, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MAKAHA VALLEY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a flood study for Makaha Valley and appropriate funds for the study.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Makaha Hawaiian Civic Club, a councilmember from the Honolulu City Council, and four individuals.

     Your Committee finds that Makaha Valley has a long history of flooding that has threatened lives and caused serious property damage.  In order for proper analyses, recommendations, and cost estimates to be made, detailed hydrologic and hydraulic modeling would need to be performed, topographic data would need to be collected, and investigations and interviews relating to flood incidents and histories would need to be conducted.  The study is estimated to require $500,000 in funding.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting language to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to investigate all potential funding sources for the study and any repairs and improvements recommended by the study; and

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2883, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2883, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Housing,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair