STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1340

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 738
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to
which was referred S.B. No. 738, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOISE POLLUTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enable development projects
to proceed in a more timely manner by requiring the Department of
Health (DOH) to act on applications for noise control permits
within thirty days instead of one-hundred-eighty days.

     This bill also requires the Director of Health (Director) to
act on an application within ninety days if the Director deems a
public informational meeting, hearing, or notice is appropriate
and extends the ninety-day period up to an additional ninety days
if the Director determines that extraordinary circumstances
exist.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
DOH, the Department of Transportation, the Hawaiian Electric
Company and its subsidiaries, Maui Electric Company and Hawaii
Electric Light Company, the Building Industry Association of
Hawaii, Jas. W. Glover, Ltd., and Hidano Construction, Inc.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
to the purpose section of this bill.


 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 738, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 738, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection,



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                                   HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair