STAND. COM. REP. NO.  441-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2237

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2237 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the revision of the State Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan by the Office of Solid Waste Management of the Department of Health by appropriating $350,000 for this purpose.

The State Auditor, Ulupono Initiative, Zero Waste Kauai, and a few concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Health supported the intent of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring that the revision of the State Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan must be based on the ultimate goal of achieving zero waste.

     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. 2237, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2237, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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CHRIS LEE, Chair