STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1663

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.R. No. 84
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs and Labor and Environment, to which was referred S.R.
No. 84 entitled:

     "SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO BAN
     ANY FURTHER TESTS OF THE LOW FREQUENCY ACTIVE SONAR SYSTEM
     IN HAWAIIAN WATERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the United States
Congress to ban any further tests of the low frequency active
sonar system in Hawaiian Waters.

     Your Committees distributed to the public and conducted a
hearing on a proposed Senate Draft of this measure that requests
the Department of Health to convene a study group to examine:

     (1)  The number and severity of unplanned releases of toxic
          emissions, the appropriateness and effectiveness of
          penalties, and the extent to which unplanned releases
          have approached or surpassed emission standards at
          Campbell Industrial Park (CIP);

     (2)  The role of the community in planning for growth at
          CIP, including community input in the permit and zoning
          process;


 
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     (3)  Current emission standards at CIP, including
          recommendations regarding enforcing stricter standards
          than those currently in place; and

     (4)  The notification process for CIP area residents,
          including recommendations for improving the process.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Health and one individual.

     Your Committees find that there is community concern
regarding the unplanned releases of toxic emissions at CIP.  With
future industrial growth at CIP being explored, your Committee
believes that the issues regarding the unplanned releases,
community involvement and notification, and air quality at CIP
must be studied.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by replacing the
contents with the proposed Senate Draft and:

     (1)  Clarifying that the study group shall examine current
          ambient air quality standards and prevention of
          significant deterioration increments rather than
          emission standards;

     (2)  Clarifying that the Department of Health shall convene
          the study group rather than appoint the members of the
          study group; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs and
Labor and Environment that are attached to this report, your
Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 84, as
amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached
hereto as S.R. No. 84, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs
                                   and Labor and Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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