STAND. COM. REP. NO. 342

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1132

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1132 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Clarify that the solid waste management surcharge applies to solid waste shipped outside the State for disposal;

 

     (2)  Clarify that the solid waste management surcharge applies to waste disposed of at waste-to-energy facilities; and

 

     (3)  Increase the solid waste management surcharge using a tiered structure commensurate with the impact of the means of disposal on the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committees find that the solid waste disposal surcharge has not been raised since 1997, despite a growing workload for program staff and a twenty-five per cent reduction in staff.  Your Committees note that currently the solid waste disposal surcharge is not collected on the solid waste disposed at waste-to-energy facilities or shipped out of the State for disposal, despite the fact that the Department of Health permits and regulates these facilities.  Your Committees find it necessary to increase the solid waste disposal surcharge to fund the Department of Health's regulatory oversight of these facilities, and further find it necessary to apply the surcharge to those facilities that are currently excluded from its application to fund the regulatory oversight those facilities require.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1132 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair