STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2873

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2530
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2530, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL PUBLIC
     NOTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require public notice for
air pollution control matters to be published once, instead of
twice a week, in the county affected by the proposed action.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Health (DOH), Hawaiian Electric Company, Maui
Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, and the
Environmental Center.

     According to DOH, the current publication requirement of
twice weekly appears to have been an inadvertent error in the
revision of section 342B-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, proposed by
the administration bill (SB1285 of 1997) which became Act 2,
Session Laws of Hawaii 1998.  To promote cost-savings and
competition with public notices, Act 2 deleted references to
"newspaper" to allow placement of notices in weekly publications.
The reference to "twice weekly" implies that the notice must be
published twice in a week and this appears inconsistent with past
practice and the intent of Act 2.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this

 
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report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2530, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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