STAND. COM. REP. NO. 771-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2619
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2619, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOISE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to complete state highway
maintenance work in a timely manner, with less cost and traffic
delay to the public, by authorizing construction and maintenance
work on the freeway and freeway ramps between Nuuanu Avenue and
Sixth Avenue on Oahu to exceed state noise standards for a
temporary period of time during such work, without a variance
from the Director of Health.

     The Department of Transportation (DOT) testified in support
of the measure.  An individual testified in opposition to the
measure.

     Your Committee notes that although the Department of Health
(DOH) will be affected by DOT's exemption from state noise
standards during the construction and maintenance work period,
DOH did not submit testimony on this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the reenactment date of the bill to provide
          that on July 1, 2003, section 342F-30, Hawaii Revised
          Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which it

 
 
 
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          read on the day before the effective date of the bill;
          and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity
          and to conform to appropriate drafting standards.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2619, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2619, H.D.
2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair