STAND. COM. REP. NO.  756

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1376

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1376 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATED SOIL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce bureaucracy by eliminating a provision that required transporters of petroleum-contaminated soil to obtain a solid waste permit.

 

     The Department of Health testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that permits to transport solid waste are no longer necessary due to significant improvements in the treatment and containment of solid waste.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1376 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 Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

 

 

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair