STAND. COM. REP. NO. 530

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 698

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 698, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ROADWAY MATERIALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide state agencies with flexibility when choosing to purchase roadway materials containing recycled glass.

     Specifically, this measure repeals the requirement that state agencies purchase paving materials with ten per cent recycled glass content, while authorizing them to do so when appropriate.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Collins D. Lam, P.E., Director, Department of Design and Construction, City and County of Honolulu; and Joseph Shacat, Environmental Compliance Manager, Grace Pacific Corporation.

     Your Committee finds that section 103D-407, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires state agencies to purchase roadway materials with minimum recycled glass content.  However, stakeholders have indicated that this requirement reduces the quality of roads, limits asphalt pavement recycling options, and results in a higher carbon footprint than if the glass were to be recycled into other products.  This measure instead gives agencies the option to use roadway materials with recycled glass content when desirable.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 698, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 698, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair