Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Water and Land Use, to which was referred S.B. No. 606, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote the use of recycled water by allowing all state and county facilities and improved commercial property using potable water irrigation systems to connect to an available recycled water service that is within 100 feet of the property line.

The Commission on Water Resource Management and the Land Use Research Foundation testified in support of this bill. The Department of Health, Hawaii Water Environment Association, and University of Hawaii Environmental Center urged the Committee to revert the bill to its original language, which made connection to recycled water service mandatory rather than voluntary. In addition, the Department of Health suggested changing the definition of "improved commercial property" to exclude property used for agricultural purposes.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Water and Land Use that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 606, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 606, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.