STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. 2109

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2468

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2468 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MOLOKAI IRRIGATION SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend an existing capital improvement budgetary appropriation to provide for the design, equipment, and construction of improvements for the Molokai irrigation system.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Agriculture, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the Mayor of Maui county, Molokai Ranch, Kumu Farms, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, the Molokai Irrigation Advisory Board, and five individuals.

Your Committee finds that the Molokai irrigation system needs immediate capital improvements to efficiently manage current water sources. The existing description of this project, in the General Appropriations Act of 2003, focuses on long-term water source development and does not address the immediate need to improve the Molokai irrigation system. While long-term planning is important to address future water needs, immediate improvements are necessary to sustain and maximize the existing water sources within the Molokai irrigation system.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2468 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 Water, Land, and Agriculture,

		____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair