Bill Text: HI HB609 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Upcountry Maui; Water; Groundwater Test Well

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB609 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB609-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  166

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 609

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 609 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PLAN, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCT A TEST WELL IN UPCOUNTRY MAUI TO SERVE AS THE FIRST PHASE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GROUND WATER WELL TO SUPPLEMENT THE UPCOUNTRY MAUI SURFACE WATER SYSTEM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to expand water resources available in upcountry Maui by appropriating funds for the planning, design, and construction of a test well in upcountry Maui, either in Makawao or Pukalani, to serve as the first phase in the construction of a ground water well to supplement the upcountry surface water system. 

 

     The Chair and a member of the Maui County Council; County of Maui, Department of Water Supply; County of Maui, Office of Economic Development; Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO; Kula Community Association; Laborers International Union of North America Local 368; and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date from July 1, 2009, to January 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 609, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 609, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

		____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair