STAND. COM. REP. NO. 29

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 212

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 212 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the law relating to the environment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that appropriates moneys for a hydrologist IV position to assist the instream use protection section of the Commission on Water Resource Management, and appropriates moneys for a geologist I position in the survey branch of the Commission on Water Resource Management.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 212, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 212, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs, for further consideration.

 

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

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair