Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 86 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Health to study the health impacts of the Waimanalo Gulch landfill on the workers of the landfill and the surrounding communities.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Life of the Land. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committees find that the health of the landfill workers and surrounding communities is a priority to the State and that these individuals should not be exposed to environmental risks.

The Department of Health submitted testimony stating that the health impact studies requested by this measure have already been initiated and are under way. Your Committees further find that the Department of Health has commenced enforcement litigation against the Waste Management of Hawaii, Inc. and City and County of Honolulu regarding eighteen violations of the operating permit for the landfill.

In response to the Department of Health's testimony, your Committees have amended this measure by requesting the Department of Health to submit an interim and final report as to the status of the pending litigation.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 86, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 86, S.D. 1.