STAND. COM. REP. NO. 381-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2529
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and
Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No.
2529 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SAFE DRINKING WATER,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to distinguish the certification
of distribution system operators from the certification of water
treatment plant operators.

     The Department of Health (DOH) testified in support of the
measure.

     Your Committees find that this measure will help the DOH to
meet requirements set by Congress that the State certify
distribution system operators.  Your Committees also find that
failure to meet this requirement would cost the State
approximately $1,400,000 of the Drinking Water State Revolving
Fund which is available to the State annually through the year
2003.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Consumer
Protection and Commerce that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
 
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2529, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2529, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Judiciary and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and Consumer
                                   Protection and Commerce, 



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RON MENOR, Chair                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair