STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1410-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.R. No. 241

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.R. No. 241 entitled:

"HOUSE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO INCLUDE THE USE OF BIOREMEDIATION METHODS TO PREVENT AND MITIGATE POLLUTION IN ITS BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Health to use bioremediation methods for the prevention and mitigation of point and non-point source pollution in state waters as a priority in its best management practices and programs.

The Sierra Club, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, and a concerned citizen submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Health supported this measure with amendments.

Your Committees have amended this measure to clarify that the Department of Health is being requested to include the use of bioremediation methods as a priority only when feasible and by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 241, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 241, H.D. 1.

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

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair