STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2767

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2880
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2880, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE
     REVOLVING FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expand the potential uses of
the environmental response revolving fund to provide financial
support to a greater variety of environmental protection
programs.

     Your Committee finds that the environmental response
revolving fund was created to fund the State's response to
catastrophic hazardous substance spills.  Allowable use of this
fund is being expanded to include support for certain
environmental protection programs that address environmental
contamination that may have resulted from petroleum or petroleum-
based products.

     The expanded support for environmental protection programs
created by this measure is not intended to authorize increased
use of the fund to support all environmental concerns, but to
further increase support for environmental protection programs
that focus on petroleum or petroleum-based concerns.


 
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     Your Committee finds that many environmental concerns are
directly traceable to petroleum-based products, and the expansion
of use authorized by this measure will provide significant
support to the State's effort to protect our environment and
fragile natural resources where the concerns are specifically
related to petroleum or petroleum-based products.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting sections 1 and 3 of the bill; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the
          purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2880, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2880,
S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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