STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2239
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2097
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2097 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER RECLAMATION,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Public Safety, Corrections Division, to conduct a water scalping feasibility study for Halawa Correctional Facility and, if funds are available, authorize development of a process design for the processing portion of the implementation of water scalping technology.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Ho‘omana Pono, LLC.
Your Committees find that water scalping is a method in which wastewater is withdrawn from a trunk sewer to produce reclaimed water and return biosolids and non-reclaimable wastewater, such as brine, to the trunk sewer. Water scalping allows for wastewater to be used for secondary purposes, thereby conserving clean potable water. Your Committees further find that water scalping technology is one way the State can conserve its valuable water resources.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2097 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,
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________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair |
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________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair |
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