STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2030

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2110

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2110 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAZARDOUS WASTE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require retail automotive parts stores to accept used motor oil for recycling or disposal.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the O‘ahu County Legislative Priorities Committee of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health and County of Hawaii Department of Environmental Management.

Your Committee finds that recycling used oil is a great way to help the environment. Used motor oil can be cleaned and fully reused as a fuel oil, and with higher-intensity processing, it can be re-refined back into lubricants. Beyond automotive motor oil, used motor oil from motorcycles, boats, farm equipment, and lawn mowers can be reused or re-refined as well. Your Committee further finds that facilities are needed statewide to accept used motor oil for recycling for proper disposal; however, your Committee acknowledges that not all retail automotive parts stores have the infrastructure necessary to collect and store used motor oil.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Limiting the application of this measure to only those retail automotive parts stores with an existing oil collection and storage unit and requiring them to accept only household generated used motor oil, rather than requiring all retail automotive parts stores to accept all used motor oil; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2110, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture and Environment,

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair