STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3178

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 112

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Government Operations, Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 112 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING ALL STATE AND COUNTY AGENCIES TO ADOPT PROCEDURES REQUIRING CONTRACTS THAT INCLUDE THE DISPOSAL OF LIQUID OR SOLID WASTE OR INERT FILL MATERIAL TO INCLUDE A RECEIPT FROM A RECEIVING FACILITY SHOWING THAT THE WASTE WAS PROPERLY RECEIVED AND LAWFULLY DISPOSED OF PRIOR TO MAKING PAYMENT TO THE CONTRACTOR,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request all state and county agencies to adopt procedures requiring contracts that include the disposal of liquid or solid waste or inert fill material to include a receipt from a licensed waste management facility showing that the waste was properly received and lawfully disposed of prior to making payment to the contractor.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health; Kailua Neighborhood Board; Conservation Council for Hawai‘i; ‘Ai Pohaku; Larry Jefts Farms, LLC; Sierra Club Hawai‘i Chapter, Oahu Group; Hawaii's Thousand Friends; and four individuals.

     Your Committees find that there is a need to help control and monitor the disposal of liquid, solid waste, and inert fill material at permitted waste facilities or other authorized sites and prevent companies from dumping waste elsewhere.  Implementation of this measure will help deter illegal dumping and benefit the safety, health, and welfare of the environment and the State's residents.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requesting that receipts from facilities, such as farms or construction sites, reference the holder, rather than number, of the farm soil and water conservation plan or construction permit number, as applicable; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations, Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 112, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 112, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations, Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair	________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair
	________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair