STAND. COM. REP. 2477

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3164

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 3164 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to mandate the use of at least 60% post-consumer content paper that is processed chlorine-free by all state departments and agencies.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Health and the State Procurement Office.

Your Committee finds that these revisions would bring state requirements in line with the recommended guidelines established by the Federal Network for Sustainability (FNS). Those guidelines are currently being implemented and applied by numerous federal agencies that are participating members of the FNS, including the United States (U.S.) Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Park Service, and U.S. Postal Service.

Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the provision which would have made section 103D-1005, Hawaii Revised Statutes, applicable to the entire chapter.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3164, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3164, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair