STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2803

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2526
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2526, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO USED OIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make the public notice and
public hearing of used oil permits discretionary rather than
mandatory.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Health and the Environmental Center.

     The issuance, reissuance, or modification of hazardous waste
permits require public notice and may require a public hearing.
Used oil permits are categorized under hazardous waste although
for the most part, used oil is not hazardous material.  This
measure carves out an exception for used oil permits under the
hazardous waste laws by requiring a public notice or public
hearing, or both, only if the Director of Health determines it is
in the public interest.

     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 H.B. No. 2526, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.


 
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                                   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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