STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1285-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: S.B. No. 2873
S.D. 1
H.D. 2
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 S.B. No. 2873, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Authorizes agencies to exempt from the environmental impact statement law, certain ancillary or incidental secondary actions to improve or develop infrastructure within existing public rights-of-way or highways; and
(2) Requires applicants proposing certain actions identified in the environmental impact statement law to prepare environmental assessments.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the Office of Environmental Quality Control to determine whether an applicant must prepare an environmental assessment whenever there is an issue of which of two or more state or county agencies has jurisdiction to determine whether an environmental assessment is required; and
(2) 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 S.B. No. 2873, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2873, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,
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____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair |
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