STAND. COM. REP. NO.  519

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 605

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 605 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WASTEWATER,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect Hawaii's ground water by prohibiting the installation or use of household aerobic units that discharge directly to groundwater, unless they have been approved by the Director of Health.

The Department of Health supported this measure.

     Your Committees have amended the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 605, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 605, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair