STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2264

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2510

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2510 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO URBAN WATER CONSERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a four-year irrigation water conservation best practices pilot program.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Hawaii Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects; Hawai‘i Farm Bureau Federation; Irrigation Hawaii, Ltd.; and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the pilot project will assist the State with water conservation by requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to implement irrigation water conservation best practices, as established by the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii, to improve the efficiency of landscape irrigation installments at state facilities through low cost, practical measures.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2510 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair