STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3443

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 204
                                        




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.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 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.

     The residents of Village Park and West Loch Fairways have
complained for years about physical conditions brought on, they
allege, by chemicals in the ground.  The Department of Health
tested composite groups of homes, and significant levels of DDT,
chromium, and arsenic were found in composite seventeen, and
significant levels of arsenic were found in composite
twenty-five.  Your Committee finds that the positive composite
readings now need to be broken down for the individual homes in
those composites to accurately judge each home's level of risk.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 204,
and recommends its adoption.

                                 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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