STAND. COM. REP. NO.155-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2723

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2723 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish county requirements for separate collection and recycling of food waste by specified restaurants, food courts, hotels, markets, and other large entities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the Hawaii Chapter of the Sierra Club, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, and the President of Eco-Feed, Inc.

Your Committee finds that county landfills are nearing capacity and expanding of siting new landfills is difficult and raises many environmental and community concerns. Your Committee further finds that strong action is necessary to reduce solid and liquid waste and that this bill will assist to divert food waste material from the county landfills.

Your Committee has amended this bill by moving its provision from chapter 46 to chapter 342G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for more appropriate placement in the contents of each county's integrated solid waste management plans.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2723, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2723, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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

 

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HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair