Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1430, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to deter illegal dumping of waste products by establishing the offense of petty misdemeanor disposal of solid waste for illegally dumping one to ten cubic yards of solid waste in a place other than a permitted solid waste management system.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Attorney General, the Department of Health, and Windward Ahupua'a Alliance. Your Committee also received comments regarding this measure from the County of Hawaii Department of Environmental Management.

Your Committee finds that illegal dumping is a statewide concern. Illegal dumping creates eyesores and raises environmental concerns. Your Committee further finds that this measure clarifies what rises to the level of a felony disposal offense. Your Committee believes that this measure will deter illegal dumping throughout Hawaii and preserve the natural beauty of our State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the fine splitting language in order to provide the authorized agency an incentive to enforce this measure, and to provide it with the resources to do so.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1430, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1430, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.