STAND. COM. REP. NO. 801

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1015

       H.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1015, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OUT OF THE BROWNFIELDS CLEANUP REVOLVING LOAN FUND,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation out of the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund for the cleanup of a contaminated site.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Jesse K. Souki, Office of Planning, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and Alapaki Nahale-a, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

     Your Committees find that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism received a grant of $2,000,000 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for a Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund program to cleanup contaminated sites.  Funds under this grant must be disbursed by the end of fiscal year 2010-2011.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism executed a loan with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to cleanup a contaminated site in Kapolei.  The federal funds must be disbursed to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in fiscal year 2010-2011, but the existing ceiling of the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund is $1,000,000.  This measure appropriates additional monies out of the Fund in order to complete the disbursement of federal funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in fiscal year 2010-2011.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1015, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair