STAND. COM. REP. NO.  563-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2435

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2435 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER CONTAMINATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help protect public health and the environment by appropriating $100,000 to the Department of Health and Department of Agriculture to conduct a water-quality study of the water resources of the Waialua district on the island of Oahu.

 

     The Department of Health and Department of Agriculture submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum;

 

     (2)  Changing the source of the appropriation from the Pesticide Use Revolving Fund to the general fund;

 

     (3)  Clarifying that the departments of Health and Agriculture may, in their discretion, consult and partner with other relevant government and non-government agencies, organizations, businesses, experts, and individuals in their analysis; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2435, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2435, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land,

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair