Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 29 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Health (DOH) to establish a cathode ray tube recycling program.

Testimony supporting this measure was submitted by Life of the Land and one individual. The DOH submitted testimony opposing this measure, however, after further discussion between your Committee and the DOH, it was agreed that DOH's goals are in line with administering a cathode ray tube recycling program.

Your Committee finds that cathode ray tubes are found in computer monitors, televisions, oscilloscopes, and similar scientific equipment.

Your Committee also finds that each cathode ray tube contains lead, mercury, cadmium, silver, gold, arsenic, and hexavalent chronium. These contaminants may leach into the groundwater or be burned at H-Power plants and be released into the air. A sound recycling program should limit the potential hazard of cathode ray tube disposal.

Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring DOH to report to the Legislature beginning in 2005, and annually thereafter on the progress of the recycling program.

Further, your Committee notes that the Maui County cathode ray tube recycling program provides a successful model that DOH can duplicate aspects of for statewide application.

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. 29, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 29, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.