Bill Text: HI HB2427 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Solid Waste; Management Plans

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-08 - (S) Act 012, 4/8/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 466). [HB2427 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2427-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2681

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2427

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2427, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to change the interval between revisions of county solid waste management plans from five years to ten years.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency and two county agencies.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Presently, the counties are required to submit revised solid waste management plans every five years.  The revision process requires the hiring of consultants to conduct the planning process and draft the plan document, with consultant contracts costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Due to the complexity and political implications of waste management systems, the formulation and evaluation of a revised plan can take one to two years to complete.  Revised plans often include significant capital improvement projects which can take years of planning before implementation.  In order to begin this entire process, the county needs at least one year of data as the basis for predicting and analyzing solid waste trends.  Thus, the counties are continuously updating their solid waste management plans throughout the five-year period.  Your Committees find that this measure can assist the counties by reducing costs relating to waste management and providing the counties with more data on solid waste trends in order to better predict future needs.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adopting the recommendation of the Department of Health to require interim status reports on plan implementation five years after the submission of a revised Integrated Solid Waste Management plan; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purpose of style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2427, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2427, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair