Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1634, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for the planning, design, construction, and equipping of, and the acquisition of lands for, a plasma municipal solid waste processing system to convert solid wastes into electricity, and chemically and biologically inert slag, on the island of Oahu.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by Jacoby Development, Inc. and its subsidiary, Geoplasma, LCC, and a concerned individual.

Your Committee finds that the limited landfill space problem facing the State warrants consideration of waste processing alternatives such as the plasma municipal solid waste processing system. Consequently, your Committee is reporting this measure out to facilitate further discussion of the issue.

Your Committee amended the measure by changing the amount of authorized bonds from $100,000 to $1 and limiting the purpose of the bonds to planning and design for the plasma municipal solid waste processing system only.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1634, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1634, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.