STAND. COM. REP. NO.  204

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 585

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 585 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $1,000,000 for each year of the 2011-2013 fiscal biennium for staffing and operating expenses of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' (DLNR) Dam Safety Office.

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; Maui County Farm Bureau; Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.; the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company; Kauai Coffee Company; and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 585 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair