STAND. COM. REP. NO. 236-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 2618
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2618 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to assist the development of renewable energy facilities with the process to exempt these facilities from subdivision requirements that presently gives the approving agency 90 days to approve the exemption application, and if on the 91st day, the exemption has not been approved, it is deemed disapproved. Specifically, this bill provides that if on the 91st day, the application is not disapproved, it is deemed approved.
The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; High Technology Development Corporation; Hawaii Science and Technology Council; Enterprise Honolulu; Castle and Cooke Hawaii; and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter opposed this measure.
Your Committees have amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.
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 are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2618, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2618, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
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____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair |
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