STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2119

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 1064

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1064, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DAM AND APPURTENANCE SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the improvement or removal of deficient dams and appurtenances by:

(1) Establishing and appropriating funds for a Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program to provide the owners of private dams and appurtenances with funds for plans, design, construction, and equipment to improve or remove deficient dams and appurtenances, as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

(2) Appropriating funds for certain operating expenses and the establishment of two full-time equivalent permanent positions in the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii and Hawai‘i Farm Bureau. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the positions to an unspecified number; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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 S.B. No. 1064, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1064, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair