STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1580

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1433

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1433, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funding for a hydrologist IV position and a geologist I position for the Commission on Water Resource Management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee understands that the hydrologist IV position is needed to assist in the establishment of instream flow standards for all streams in Hawaii, as mandated by a 2000 Hawaii supreme court decision. The geologist I position is required to enable the survey branch of the Commission on Water Resource Management to accomplish its responsibilities, including collecting and analyzing geologic and hydrologic data for maintaining the State's well and water use database, assisting with data analysis such as aquifer test analysis, groundwater and surface water interaction determination, and groundwater interpretation, develop department policies for potential rock falls, debris flows, and other geologic hazards, and determine mitigation measures.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

(1) Providing for appropriations in the amount of $1 to facilitate further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1433, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1433, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair