Bill Text: HI HB1116 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water Pollution

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1116 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1116-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  69

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1116

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1116 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to assist the Department of Health (DOH) in complying with increasingly complex federal water- pollution requirements by allowing DOH to establish up to two exempt Total Maximum Daily Load Coordinator positions.

 

     DOH, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Environmental Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and Hanalei Watershed Hui supported this bill. 

 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the reference to the Clean Water Act contained in this measure means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, as amended; and

 

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

 

     Your Committee recognizes that the positions authorized in this measure are federally funded and has passed this measure with the understanding that federal funds to fill these positions may be forthcoming.

 

     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. 1116, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1116, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair