STAND. COM. REP. NO. 309

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1282
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 1282 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HONOKAA-PAAULIO
     IRRIGATION DISTRICT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Agriculture for continued operation of the Lower
Hamakua irrigation ditch.  

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Board of Agriculture.  

     Your Committee finds that the operation of the Lower Hamakua
Ditch is essential to the development of diversified agriculture
in the area and one of the keys to the economic recovery of the
community disrupted by the bankruptcy closing of the Hamakua
plantation.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 1282 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Finance.


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



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                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair