STAND. COM. REP. NO. 759

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1242

       S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 1242, S.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 from the brownfields cleanup revolving loan fund for costs associated with cleanup of a contaminated site in Kapolei.

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Mary Lou Kobayashi, Planning Program Administrator, Office of Planning, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

     Your Committee finds that the existing ceiling of the brownsfield cleanup revolving loan fund must be increased to permit the disbursement of funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the cleanup of a contaminated site in Kapolei.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to correctly reflect the current version of Act 162, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009.

     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 S.B. No. 1242, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1242, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair