Report Title:

SPRBs; Issuance for Closure of Processing Enterprises; Authorized

Description:

Expands the definition of "pollution control project" to include the closure of the project so that such closures will qualify for special purpose revenue bond funding.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

713

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to closure of municipal FACILITIES.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 48E-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "pollution control project" to read as follows:

""Pollution control project" means any processing enterprise consisting of property, or improvements or alterations to property, designed, acquired, constructed, installed, or modified, and certified as necessary or desirable by the state department of health, to abate, control, reduce, treat, eliminate, or dispose of solid waste, including the closure of landfills, and specifically includes facilities which incidentally provide for the recovery of energy or material resources, or both."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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