STAND. COM. REP. NO. 197

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1074
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 1074 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the Hamakua
Community Development District.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and
Tourism (DBEDT), Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA),
and Planning Department of the County of Hawaii.

     In lieu of development of the Hamakua District Plan, DBEDT,
HCDA, and the Hilo-Hamakua Coordinating Committee have agreed to
implement an alternative approach to identifying projects which
would benefit the Hamakua area.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1074 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


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



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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