STAND. COM. REP. NO. 254

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1557
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1557 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to permit the visual
monitoring and analysis of storm water runoff by motor carriers.

     The Hawaii Transportation Association and the American
Trucking Associations submitted testimony in support of this
measure. 

     Your Committee finds that motor carriers are currently
required to perform laboratory analysis on storm water runoff to
observe pollution discharge.  Laboratory analysis is excessively
burdensome on motor carriers because it is expensive and time-
consuming.  In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency has
determined that motor carrier operations do not pollute storm
water runoff to the extent warranting laboratory analysis.
Therefore, your Committee finds that visual monitoring and
analysis by motor carriers of storm water runoff which observes
color, odor, turbidity, floating solids, foam, oil, and other
obvious indicators of pollution is sufficient.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1557 and recommends that it pass

 
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Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and
Consumer Protection.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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