STAND. COM. REP. NO.  375-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2030

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2030 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POLLUTION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the discharge of treated wastewater into state waters after December 31, 2049, except when used to create clean energy.

Sierra Club of Hawaii, Larry Jefts Farms, LLC, and one individual provided testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2030 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection,

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair