THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair

Senator Gil Riviere, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Glenn Wakai, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND ENERGY

Senator Lorraine R. Inouye, Chair

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

TIME:

10:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 414

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 524

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE.

Requires the Department of Health and the counties to consider waste-to-energy as part of their solid waste management practices and processing methods in implementing the Hawaii Integrated Solid Waste Management Act.

 

AEN/PSM/TRE, CPH

SB 1207

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LAKE WILSON.

Appropriates moneys to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for a study to be conducted in cooperation with the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the merits of acquiring Lake Wilson dam and spillway to upgrade the dam and develop pumped-storage hydroelectricity.  Requires federal matching funds.

 

AEN/PSM/TRE, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

The committees previously scheduled these measures for hearing on 02-08-17.  However, due to unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to convene the hearing.  If you previously submitted testimony for the 02-08-17 hearing, you do NOT need to re-submit your testimony.

 

Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Environment.

 

Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara

Chair

 

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Senator Mike Gabbard

Chair

 

 

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Senator Lorraine R. Inouye

Chair