STAND. COM. REP. NO.91

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 848

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 848 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF KAHOOLAWE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $500,000 from the special land and development fund for the development and implementation of a strategy for alternative energy resources on Kahoolawe.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Pacific International Center for High Technology Research.

Your Committee finds that this appropriation provides for critical demonstration and data gathering for the development of renewable and sustainable, alternative energy resources on Kahoolawe. As a remote, non-utility supported location, Kahoolawe is ideal as a demonstration site for hydrogen, fuel cell, and ocean thermal energy conversion technologies.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 848 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair