STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 1287

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.C.R. No. 201

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 201 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING AN INVESTIGATION ON THE STATE AND COUNTIES' LAND USE POLICIES WITH REGARD TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request the Auditor to assess the adequacy of existing land use policies that determine the siting of landfills.

Life of the Land and a concerned individual offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Requesting the Auditor to expand its investigation to address:

(a) Provisions of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act;

(b) Provisions of state and county codes focusing on the siting of landfills;

(d) The track record of public and private waste disposal programs; and

(e) Issues of environmental justice, that is, no community should shoulder more than its fair share of landfills because of its lack of political or economic power or influence;

and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 201, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 201, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection,

____________________________ HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair		____________________________ EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair