STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3100

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1749

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER MANAGEMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the goals of the Hawaii Water Plan to include the attainment of one hundred percent utilization of reclaimed water in all state facilities.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and City and County of Honolulu Department of Design and Construction.

 

     Your Committees find that water is a vital resource that must be conserved.  Your Committees further find that there are numerous state facilities scattered throughout the islands that are not proximal to a wastewater reclamation facility or the service areas of existing recycled water distribution systems.  Therefore, in order to achieve attainment of one hundred percent utilization of reclaimed water, as proposed by this measure, reclaimed water would need to be trucked in to each facility on a regular basis or separate dual water systems or many new wastewater reclamation facilities would have to be constructed throughout the State, which would be extremely costly.

 

     Your Committees have therefore amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending the goals of the Hawaii Water Plan to include the attainment of increased utilization of reclaimed water in all state facilities, where feasible, rather than one hundred percent utilization for all state facilities; and

 

     (2)  Making it effective upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Government Operations,

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair