Bill Text: HI SCR112 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Concurrent Resolution 112 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Liquid or Solid Waste; Inert Fill Material; Licensed Waste Facility; Receipt

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-29 - Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SCR112 Detail]

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	112
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

requesting all state and county agencies to adopt procedures requiring contracts that include the disposal of liquid or solid waste or inert fill material to include a receipt from a receiving facility showing that the waste was properly received and lawfully disposed of prior to making payment to the contractor.

WHEREAS, the City and County of Honolulu conducted a public survey to assess perspectives about illegal dumping and found the public's frustration with illegal dumping was apparent, with ninety-one percent of the residents surveyed describing illegal dumping as a "somewhat or very serious" problem; and

WHEREAS, the City and County of Honolulu surveyed illegal dumping prevention programs in other states and found, across the board, that engaging communities affected by the problem is the most effective means of cleaning up illegal dumping sites and preventing recurrence; and

WHEREAS, illegal dumping is sometimes a deliberate criminal act, and reports of illegal dumping have led to criminal investigations and reductions of dumping frequency in certain areas, but culprits are difficult to catch in the act and prosecute; and

WHEREAS, in April 2015, Hawaii News Now reported that the Department of Health fined a landscaping and tree trimming company and a recycling company nearly $40,000 for illegally dumping in a former pineapple field in Wahiawa; and

WHEREAS, it was reported that much of the illegally dumped trash came from the State and the City and County of Honolulu (City) because the landscaping and tree trimming company was hired by the Department of Land and Natural Resources to haul away dredging debris from the Ala Wai Canal in 2010 and the recycling company removed ash and metal debris from the City's HPower plant; and

WHEREAS, one particular type of illegal dumping occurs when people dispose of liquid or solid waste or inert fill material illegally; and

WHEREAS, there is a need to help control and monitor the disposal of liquid and solid waste and inert fill material at permitted waste facilities or other sites authorized to accept inert fill material and prevent companies from dumping waste anywhere else; and

WHEREAS, sometimes liquid or solid waste or inert fill material waste results from government construction projects; and

WHEREAS, requiring contractors who work on government projects to provide receipts that waste or fill material was received at authorized facilities before payment is made for those services would serve as a deterrent to illegal dumping and benefit the safety, health, and welfare of residents, streams, and the land and ocean; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, the House of Representatives concurring, that all state and county agencies are requested to adopt procedures requiring a contract that includes the disposal of liquid or solid waste to include a receipt from a licensed waste management facility showing that the waste was properly received and lawfully disposed of in an appropriate, licensed waste facility in order for payment to be made by the state or county agency; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a receipt from a contract that includes the disposal of inert fill is requested to show that inert fill was disposed of at one or more of the following locations:

(1) Recycling facility;

(2) Facility used to repurpose material for other construction projects; or

(3) Farm lot with an approved soil and water conservation plan or construction site with a permit to grade and fill the site or stockpile fill on site; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that receipts from licensed facilities are requested to be by weight and receipts from other facilities, such as farms or construction sites, note the following:

(1) Number of truck loads accepted by the site;

(2) Type of material received;

(3) Address of the site and name of the agent authorized to accept the fill; and

(4) Reference number of the farm soil and water conservation plan or construction permit number, as applicable; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor; Administrator of the State Procurement Office, who in turn is requested to distribute a copy to each Chief Procurement Officer of the State and counties; Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu; Mayor of the County of Maui; Mayor of the County of Hawaii; Mayor of the County of Kauai; City and County of Honolulu Director of the Department of Environmental Services; County of Maui Director of the Department of Environmental Management; County of Hawaii Director of the Department of Environmental Management; and County of Kauai County Engineer of the Department of Public Works.