Bill Text: HI SB454 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water Pollution; Gray Water; Irrigation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 233, on 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). [SB454 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB454-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1029

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 454

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 454, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to enhance water conservation efforts by encouraging the widespread use of gray water for irrigation purposes under certain conditions.

 

     The Department of Health, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaii Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Kula Community Association and a concerned individual opposed this bill.  A member of the Maui County Council provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring that gray water usage conform with the State Plumbing Code, Chapter 3-183, Hawaii Administrative Rules, instead of the latest edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code, as copyrighted and published by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials.

 

     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 S.B. No. 454, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 454, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water & Land.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair