STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3527

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.R. No. 43

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 43 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY TO SUBMIT A GRANT REQUEST TO THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY FOR ROCKFALL MITIGATION IN MOANALUA GARDENS AND MOANALUA VALLEY, OAHU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to direct the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to submit a hazard mitigation assistance grant request or pre-disaster mitigation program grant request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for rockfall mitigation in Moanalua Gardens and Moanalua Valley, Oahu, under the Tripler Army Medical Center hillside.

Your Committee received no testimony on this measure.

Your Committee finds that on Oahu, the Moanalua Gardens and Moanalua Valley communities are considered a high-risk zone for landslides and rockfalls. Your Committee further finds that the United States Army Corps of Engineers has previously conducted rockfall mitigation projects on surrounding hillsides in Moanalua Gardens and Moanalua Valley since certain hillsides in the region are owned by the federal government. Your Committee concludes that while the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is responsible for planning for and responding to natural and human-caused emergencies in the State, a partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency is necessary to protect the Moanalua Gardens and Moanalua Valley communities from landslides and rock falls.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 43, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 43, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair