STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1339

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 737
                                     S.D. 2
                                     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 Energy and Environmental Protection, to
which was referred S.B. No. 737, S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOISE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide regulatory relief for
builders of small construction projects by exempting these
projects from the permit requirements of the noise pollution law.

     This bill also requires builders of small construction
projects to provide the Department of Health (DOH) with written
notification of the intent to construct.

     The Department of Transportation, the Building Industry
Association of Hawaii, Hidano Construction, Inc., and Jas. W.
Glover, Ltd. testified in support of this measure.  The DOH also
supported this measure and offered amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Inserting a new section authorizing the Director of
          Health to establish fees for notification;

     (2)  Excluding from the exemption projects emitting noise in
          excess of the maximum permissible sound levels that
          occur on Sunday and holidays; and


 
 
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     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purpose of clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 737, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 737, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection,



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                                   HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair