Bill Text: HI HB2404 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Grants For Local Recycling Facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-14 - Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Holt, Takayama excused (2). [HB2404 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-HB2404-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO GRANTS FOR LOCAL RECYCLING FACILITIES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Hawaii has grappled with solutions to deal with municipal waste for decades. Landfill capacity is rapidly decreasing, even after creating mitigation measures like exportation and incineration. Currently, the vast majority of recyclable materials are recycled outside the State. Landfill diversion has global environmental benefits, including reducing the need to extract raw materials from mines, such as aluminum, and decreasing the amount of methane gas released into the atmosphere as waste decomposes. Landfills are the third largest source of methane emissions in the United States behind industry and agricultural sources. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the United States from human activities, which has a significant impact on climate change.
The legislature further finds that an investment in local recycling facilities is immediately necessary to the human impact on Hawaii's natural environment and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.
The purpose of this Act is to incentivize the development of new recycled products manufacturing, bioconversion, or composting businesses within the State of Hawaii.
SECTION 2. Chapter 342G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§342G- Recycled
products manufacturing grant program; established. (a)
There is established in the office a recycled products manufacturing grant
program to be administered by the department.
The department shall issue grants to recycled products manufacturers or
bioconversion or composting businesses to assist them in offsetting the costs
of operations within the State.
(b) Grants awarded under this section shall meet
a standard as determined by the department.
Grants made by the department under this section shall be exempt from
chapter 103D.
(c) Applications for the grants shall be
submitted on a form furnished by the department and shall be filed with any
accompanying documentation as may be required by the office.
(d) Grant program funds shall be disbursed from
the environmental management special fund established under section 342G-63,
upon approval by the department, to the grantee for up to $750,000.
(e) The department shall adopt rules pursuant to
chapter 91 as necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(f) For the purposes of this section "recycled products" means the collection, separation, recovery, and sale or reuse of locally sourced recyclables within the State that would otherwise be disposed of as municipal solid waste, and is an integral part of a manufacturing process aimed at producing a marketable product made of postconsumer material within the State."
SECTION 3. Section 342G-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§342G-14[]] Powers and duties of the office
of solid waste management. The
office shall:
(1) Promote the development of coordinated statewide solid waste management;
(2) Identify and monitor environmental and public health issues relating to solid waste management;
(3) Promote source reduction, recycling, and bioconversion, including home composting, through the provision of a comprehensive, innovative, and effective statewide public education and awareness program concerning the value of source reduction and recycling, and the way the public can participate in these areas;
(4) Comply with the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 United States Code section 6901 et seq.) and any other federal law heretofore or hereafter enacted affecting solid waste;
(5) Seek compliance with sections 226-18, 226-52, and 226-103;
(6) Assess the feasibility of employing disposal fees, including fees at the point of introduction or sale of any product that would require eventual disposition as solid waste, as possible funding sources for waste management activities;
(7) Coordinate with the department of land and natural resources to incorporate solid waste management and processing concerns in the department of land and natural resources’ land use planning and development efforts;
(8) Coordinate the bioconversion efforts of appropriate agency and county activities, including the provision of technical assistance and the evaluation of bioconversion programs;
(9) Provide waste evaluation services and assistance in developing paper recycling and other materials programs to both the public and private sector, where feasible;
(11) Establish a
recycled products manufacturing grant program to incentivize new recycled
products manufacturing, bioconversion, or composting businesses in the State;
[(11)] (12) Create
and maintain a database to assess the composition of the State’s waste
stream. If feasible, this database shall
contain the information necessary to generate the office’s annual report;
[(12)] (13) Identify
and apply for appropriate federal funds to support the programs and activities
authorized by this chapter; and
[(13)] (14) Cooperate
with appropriate federal, state, and county agencies in carrying out the
office's responsibilities under this chapter."
SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 to be deposited into the environmental management special fund.
SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the environmental management special fund the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the recycled products manufacturing grant program.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 6. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
DOH; Office of Solid Waste Management; Recycling; Environmental Management; Grant Program; Recycling Facilities; Appropriation
Description:
Requires the office of solid waste management to establish the recycled products manufacturing grant program to incentivize new recycled products manufacturing, bioconversion, or composting business within the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
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