STAND. COM. REP. NO. 119

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 948
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B.
No. 948 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     AGRICULTURAL WATER USE AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to
implement the agricultural water use and development plan.

     The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center and the Hawaii Farm
Bureau Federation submitted testimony in support of the bill.
The Department of Agriculture (DOA) also indicated its support
for the bill so long as the bill's passage does not replace or
adversely affect the priorities in its Executive Biennium Budget. 

     Your Committee recognizes that this bill will allow for the
implementation of the agricultural water use and development
plan.  Act 101, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, granted this
authority to the DOA but failed to include funding for
implementation of the plan.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

     (1)  Extending the appropriations relating to the research
          and data-gathering of existing systems and the existing
          agricultural land use and irrigation water
          requirements, to the islands of Lanai and Molokai; and


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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
948, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 948, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Agriculture,



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                                   FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair