STAND. COM. REP. NO.  481-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2249

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2249 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDFILLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Require permitted landfills to track and report the types of alternative daily covers used;

     (2)  Require state and county agencies to place a preference on the disposal of residual recycling waste in landfills and incinerators; and

     (3)  Require state and county agencies to accept such disposals.

PVT Land Company Limited and Schnitzer Steel Hawaii Corp. testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Services of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure.  The Environmental Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa provided comments on this measure.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2249, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2249, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

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DENNY COFFMAN, Chair