STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1206

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 546

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 546, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FUEL TANK ADVISORY COMMITTEE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Fuel Tank Advisory Committee to hold at least one regular meeting in each quarter of a calendar year and appropriate funds to obtain contractor support for additional meetings of the Committee.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, and Church of the Crossroads. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health, Sierra Club of Hawai‘i, and one individual.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 546, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair