STAND. COM. REP. NO.1060-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2005

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2005, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase the State's recycling rate by authorizing the County of Hawaii to establish a three-year demonstration beverage container deposit system.

The Department of Health and the County of Hawaii supported the intent of this bill. The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Hawaii, Anheuser Busch Companies, Grocery Manufacturers of America, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association opposed this measure.

Your Committee notes that S.B. No. 2266, H.D. 1, which was reported out of your Committee earlier this session, relates to a comprehensive statewide recycling program. Your Committee believes that the "county specific" concerns of the beverage container industry, including labeling beverage containers specifically for the County of Hawaii demonstration program, will be moot upon the enactment of a statewide recycling program such as the one in S.B. No. 2266.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Allowing the counties, with the authorization of the Legislature, to impose or collect assessments or fees on glass containers for the same or similar purposes as the advance glass deposit fee;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2002; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

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 S.B. No. 2005, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2005, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair