STAND. COM. REP. NO.  

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1453

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1453, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MOLOA‘A WELL PROJECT ON THE ISLAND OF KAUAI,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for land acquisition, plans, design, and construction for a new well at Moloa‘a on the island of Kauai, and for:

(1)  Alternative energy development to power the well to supplement the existing water resources at Moloa‘a; and

(2)  An onsite, state-of-the-art post-harvest facility at Moloa‘a to meet the new standards established by the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The Department of Agriculture supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1453, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair