STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1605

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.C.R. No. 99

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 99, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CONVENING OF A LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE ON ENERGY SECURITY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the convening of a Legislative Task Force on Energy Security.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Aluvion Energies LLC, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, and United Steelworkers Union Local 12-591.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committees find that in January the Tesoro Corporation announced plans to shut down its oil refinery in Kapolei, Hawaii, which will result in two hundred layoffs at the facility and is likely to impact more than two thousand jobs in the region.  In response, the Governor issued Executive Order 13-01, which established the Hawaii Refinery Task Force to examine the impact of the closure of the Tesoro refinery.  Your Committees find, however, that the task force was not directed to examine alternative efforts to encourage the continued use or alternative use of the Tesoro refinery. 

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the language requesting the Legislature to convene a Legislative Task Force on Energy Security and all language related to that task force;

 

     (2)  Adding language to urge the Governor to add a representative of the United Steelworkers Local 12-591 as a member of the existing Hawaii Refinery Task Force and to request the Hawaii Refinery Task Force to examine:

 

          (A)  Legislative, administrative, and regulatory concerns that refiners may have in deciding whether to enter the refining industry in Hawaii and recommend strategies on addressing those concerns;

 

          (B)  The feasibility of continued use of Tesoro's refinery; and

 

          (C)  Potential alternative, green energy uses of the refinery assets, including conversion to green diesel fuel production;

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency; and

 

     (4)  Changing the title to appropriately reflect its contents.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 99, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 99, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Ways and Means,

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair