STAND. COM. REP. NO. 625-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 2077
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2077 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HYDROELECTRIC POWER,"
beg leave to report as follows:
Blue Planet Foundation, the Hawai‘i Farm Bureau Federation, Ulupono Initiative, and the Hawai‘i Fresh Water Initiative testified in support of this measure. The Ho‘okipa Network Kauai, Aha Moku Kauai, Pō‘ai Wai Ola, Earthjustice, Kekaha Hawaiian Homestead Association, Hanalei Watershed Hui, and numerous individuals testified in opposition. The Department of Agriculture provided comments.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the approval of the Commission on Water Resource Management if the hydroelectric generating capacity of a hydroelectric facility is over 500 kilowatts; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2077, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2077, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land,
____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair |
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