STAND. COM. REP. NO. 141

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 563
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 563 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL
     QUALITY CONTROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require various agencies
to notify the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC) of
any permit application, or other action or information that
affects or pertains to the environment for publication in the
Officer's Bulletin.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Office of Environmental Control, Common Cause Hawaii, Hawaii's
Thousand Friends, Life of the Land, Na Leo Pohai, and the Sierra
Club.  Testimony in support of the intent of this measure was
received from the Land Use Commission, Hawaiian Electric Company,
and the Environmental Center.  Testimony in opposition to this
measure was received from the Department of Business, Economic
Development, and Tourism, and the County of Hawaii Planning
Department.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will codify an
existing practice of the OEQC.  It is the intent of the OEQC to
continue providing a "one-stop shop" for environmental notices to
the greatest extent possible.  Your Committee made technical,
nonsubstantive changes to this measure for the purpose of
clarity.

 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 563, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 563,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, and
Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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