STAND. COM. REP. 401

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 470

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 470 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require environmental impact statements to disclose and propose mitigation of the environmental justice impacts of a proposed action.

Life of the Land testified in support of this bill. The Office of Environmental Quality Control submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds it appropriate to alert land use decision-makers about health or environmental effects that may disproportionately affect minority and low-income populations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting definitions of "environmental justice", "fair treatment," and "meaningful involvement;" and

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

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 470, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 470, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair