STAND. COM. REP. NO. 82-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 2749
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. 2749 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WASTE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Establish within the Department of Health:
(A) A sewage runoff task force to examine the levels of sewage contamination in coastal areas as a result of runoff and methods to reduce sewage contamination; and
(B) A sewage infrastructure review task force to examine the sewage infrastructure in each county; and
(2) Appropriate funds for the sewage runoff task force and sewage infrastructure review task force.
Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the sections requiring the establishment of a sewage runoff task force and appropriating funds for the sewage runoff task force.
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. 2749, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2749, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Health.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,
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____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair |
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