Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3092 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide for better solid waste management control in this State.

Specifically, this bill appropriates $1,000,000 to augment the Department of Health's operating budget to expand its solid waste management enforcement and monitoring capabilities.

Your Committee finds that, according to the Joint Legislative Task Force on Waste Management and Recycling, the Solid and Hazardous Waste Branch of the Department of Health is in serious need of additional resources to adequately perform its core functions relating to oversight, accountability, and enforcement. Currently, there is only one landfill engineer to oversee eleven operating landfills and hundreds of closed landfills statewide.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the $1,000,000 as the amount specified and leaving the amount blank. Your Committee has also changed the effective date to July 1, 2030 to promote further discussion and development on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3092, S.D. 1.