STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1566-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.C.R. No. 129
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to
which was referred S.C.R. No. 129, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A STUDY OF
     UNPLANNED RELEASES OF EMISSIONS AND SPILLS BY FACILITIES AT
     CAMPBELL INDUSTRIAL PARK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution, as received by
your Committee, is to request the Department of Health to convene
a task force to study issues relevant to unplanned releases of
emissions and spills at Campbell Industrial Park.

     Life of the Land and one individual testified in support of
this measure.  The Department of Health, Hawaii Electric Company,
Maui Electric Company, and Hawaii Electric Light Company
testified in support of the intent of this measure and with
suggested amendments.

     Your Committee finds that a Report on Unplanned Air Releases
in Campbell Industrial Park (1995-99), recently completed by the
Clean Air Branch of the Department of Health, will be submitted
to the Legislature in June 2000.  Therefore, your Committee has
made the following amendments:

     (1)  Deleting the request for a task force to be convened to
          conduct a study on unplanned releases of toxic
          emissions and spills,

 
 
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     (2)  Requiring the Hawaii State Emergency Response
          Commission to determine the level of risk that
          facilities with above ground chemical storage tanks may
          pose to the public and the environment (language taken
          from SB 2992 HD2), 

     (3)  Limiting the scope of the assessment of facilities with
          above ground chemical storage tanks to those at
          Campbell Industrial Park instead of statewide, and

     (3)  Requiring the Hawaii State Emergency Response
          Commission to report their findings to the Legislature
          no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the
          regular session of 2002.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached
to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and
purpose of S.C.R. No. 129, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in
the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 129, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection,



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                                   HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair