STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1441

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 454

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 454, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER CONSERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to facilitate water conservation by expanding permissible use of recycled gray water to gray water generated by nonresidential applications, specifying that use of this gray water shall be in conformance with the State Plumbing Code, and encouraging the use and promotion of recycled gray water.  

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a member of the Maui County Council, the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii, and a few individuals.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 454, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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CINDY EVANS, Chair