Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 422, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to regulate the discharge of liquid and air pollutants by large commercial passenger vessels in the marine waters of the State.

Your Committee finds that with the increase of cruise ship activities in the State, in order to protect the marine waters of the State from potential pollutants from these large cruise ships, it is necessary to regulate the discharge of sewage, treated and untreated, graywater, other wastewater, and air emissions within the marine waters of the State. This measure will require the reporting of any prohibited discharge, intended or unintended, to the Department of Health, the gathering of information and water samplings, and the maintenance of records relating to all discharges of these pollutants in the marine waters of the State. Finally, criminal sanctions are imposed for any violations of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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 H.B. No. 422, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 422, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.