STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2220

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2867

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2867 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish two full-time equivalent fisheries technician IV positions and for operating expenses for a recreational fishing program at the Nuuanu Reservoir.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and twelve individuals.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Land and Natural Resources used to operate a highly successful recreational fishing program at the Nuuanu Reservoir for many years. This measure will provide the financial and operational support to reestablish this popular program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the position request is for two permanent positions; and

(2) Clarifying that the recreational fishing program at the Nuuanu Reservoir is the Nuuanu Reservoir Recreational Fishing Program at Nuuanu Reservoir number four.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2867, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2867, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair