STAND. COM. REP. NO.  515-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1731

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1731 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WASTEWATER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the installation or use of household aerobic units that discharge directly to groundwater unless approved by the Department of Health.

 

     The Department of Health provided testimony in support of this measure with comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making the National Sanitation Foundation/American National Standards Institute Standard 245 for class I aerobic units the standard for Department of Health approval rather than requiring the Director of Health to develop standards.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1731, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1731, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.


 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

 

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair