STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3845

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2147

H.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2147, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL PERMITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to reinstate the Department of Health's authority to permit federal municipal solid waste landfills.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and County of Hawai‘i Department of Environmental Management.

Your Committee finds that Act 73, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020 (Act 73), removed the Department of Health's authority to permit federal municipal solid waste landfills, which placed the State in non-compliance with federal regulations regarding the permitting of solid waste management facilities. Additionally, without a state permitting program, landfills in the State may be subject to federal regulations that do not take the soil conditions in Hawaii into consideration. This measure reinstates the Department of Health's authority to permit federal municipal solid waste landfills.

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 H.B. No. 2147, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair