STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1568-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.C.R. No. 204
                                     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. 204 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF
     HEALTH TO CONDUCT FOLLOW-UP SOIL TESTS AT VILLAGE PARK AND
     WEST LOCH FAIRWAYS,"

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 test
the individual homes in composites seventeen and twenty-five to
clarify the levels of toxic substances in each home and make a
determination of habitability for each.

     Life of the Land testified in support of this concurrent
resolution and the Deparment of Health offered comments.

     Your Committee finds that health assessments of the Village
Park and West Loch Fairways communities have already been
conducted and homeowners with soil test results containing
elevated levels of arsenic were notified and given the option of
further sampling.  To this date, not one homeowner has requested
additional sampling.  Your Committee realizes that under the
Environmental Response Law (Chapter 128D HRS), the landowner
would be responsible for all costs involved in a response action
by the Department of Health.

     Your Committee has therefore amended this concurrent
resolution by requesting the Department of Health to provide

 
 
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technical guidance and assistance to those individual homeowners
who may pursue further investigations on their own accord, based
on the Department's previous notification of test findings.

     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. 204, as amended herein, and recommends that
it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached
hereto as S.C.R. No. 204, 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