STAND. COM. REP. NO.  941-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2249

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2249, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDFILLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require permitted landfills to track and report the types of alternative daily covers used;

 

     (2)  Require state and county agencies to place a preference on the disposal of residual recycling waste in landfills and incinerators; and

 

     (3)  Require state and county agencies to accept such disposals.

 

     Schnitzer Steel Hawaii Corp. testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health, Department of Environmental Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and two individuals testified in opposition to this measure.  PVT Land Company provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2030, for the purposes of facilitating further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2249, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2249, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair