STAND. COM. REP. 2321
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2508
S.D. 1
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 S.B. No. 2508 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to:
(1) Expand the Naiwa landfill on Molokai by adding three
additional disposal cells;
(2) Establish recycling and refuse convenience centers in
west and east Molokai;
(3) Continue promotion of community-based solid waste
management and recycling; and
(4) Create pilot projects for experimental technology,
progressive waste-management practices, and recycling.
A Maui County Council Member submitted testimony supporting the measure. The Director of Health submitted testimony opposing the measure.
Your Committee finds that the projects authorized by the measure will assist the efforts to improve waste management programs and practices on Molokai and contribute a long overdue boost to the island's struggling economy.
Your Committee amended the measure by replacing the Department of Health with the County of Maui as the expending agency.
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 S.B. No. 2508, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2508, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,
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____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair |
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