STAND. COM. REP. NO. 270-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2807
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 2807 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A WAIALUA-
     HALEIWA STORMWATER DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) for the formation
of a Waialua-Haleiwa Stormwater Drainage Master Plan (Master
Plan).

     Your Committee received testimony from DLNR in opposition of
this bill.  Life of the Land submitted testimony in support of
this bill.

     Your Committee finds that on December 2, 1999, a storm
occurred in the Koolaus which caused water to spill over the
emergency spillway at Wahiawa Reservoir into Kaukonahua Stream.
This caused flood waters to rise up to the floorboards of
residents' homes at Otake Camp.  The Master Plan will benefit the
City, State, and Federal Emergency Management Agency by
identifying the houses that are repeatedly damaged by floods and
utilizing methods to get them out of harm's way.

     Your Committee has revised this bill by changing the
appropriation to $1 for the purpose of continued discussion.

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments to the bill have also
been made for the purposes of style and clarity.
     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. 2807, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second

 
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Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2807, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair