STAND. COM. REP. NO. 949
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 1141
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1141, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CESSPOOLS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit approvals for the installation of new cesspools and the connection of newly constructed structures, buildings, or residences to existing cesspools, issued after December 31, 2016.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Nature Conservancy, Surfrider Foundation Hawaii Chapters, and two individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.
Your Committee finds that the continued use of cesspools poses a risk to the health and safety of the public. Hawaii is the only state that permits the installation of new cesspools, and contamination from cesspools poses an unacceptable risk to the water quality in ocean water, surface water, and groundwater. Implementation of this measure will protect the environment and the quality of the State's nearshore waters and drinking water supplies.
Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of upon approval.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1141, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1141, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,
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________________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair |
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