STAND. COM. REP. NO. 85-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: H.B. No. 2655
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2655 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAAUILO RENDERING PLANT, HAMAKUA, BIG ISLAND,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to renovate the Paauilo rendering plant to:
(1) Provide a means to render slaughterhouse waste that will be banned from the county landfill in Hilo; and
(2) Promote the reuse of livestock by-products.
The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Board of Agriculture offered comments on this measure.
Your Committee recognizes that a fully functional rendering plant in Hamakua is in the public interest and critical to the economic viability of the ranching industry on the island of Hawaii.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2655 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair |
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