STAND. COM. REP. NO. 143

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1023
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1023 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department
of Health to hire a full-time exempt employee to serve as an
ecological risk assessor.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Health and the Sierra Club.  The Environmental
Center commented on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that there is a growing need for an
ecological risk assessor within the Environmental Health
Administration of the Department of Health.  The expertise
afforded by an ecological risk assessor would allow the
Environmental Health Administration to respond more efficiently
and effectively to environmental hazards.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1023 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


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



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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