STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1323-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 98

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 98 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT TO DEVELOP A PLAN OF INITIATIVES FOR IMPROVED REUSE AND RECYCLING OF GREEN WASTE BY WORKING WITH THE COUNTIES TO ADDRESS EACH COUNTY'S UNIQUE NEEDS ACCORDING TO THEIR GEOGRAPHY, POPULATION, AND UNIQUE INDUSTRY MAKE-UP,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Office of Solid Waste Management to assist each county in creating a plan to reach benchmarks three and four of the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability plan.

 

     The County of Hawaii Department of Environmental Management submitted testimony in support. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Management submitted testimony in opposition.

 

     Your committee has amended this measure by removing the request that the Office of Solid Waste Management help counties to create enforceable penalties for failing to reach goals, and instead adding a request that it help counties provide an annual report

 

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 98, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 98, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DENNY COFFMAN, Chair