STAND. COM. REP. NO.2102

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2890
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Transportation
and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2890 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL WASTEWATER
     SYSTEMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to delegate the responsibility
of regulating individual wastewater systems from the Department
of Health to the counties.

     Testimony in favor of the measure was received from the
Department of Health and the City and County of Honolulu.
Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the
Department of Public Works, County of Kauai.

     With respect to the permitting process, the Department of
Health regulates individual wastewater systems while the counties
review building permits.  This measure delegates the Department's
regulatory responsibilities to the counties; in effect, making
the counties a "one-stop agency".  Your Committees are in
agreement that efficiency will be achieved with this delegation.

     Your Committees made technical, nonsubstantive amendments to
reflect preferred drafting style.


 
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     Your Committees respectfully request that the Committee on
Ways and Means weigh the particular needs of each county and
modify the appropriations accordingly.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Transportation and
Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 2890, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2890, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and
                                   Environment and Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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