Bill Text: HI SB3144 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Grants For Local Recycling Facilities.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-13 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on EDB with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Gates, McDermott, Thielen excused (3). [SB3144 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-SB3144-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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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 recycling, bioconversion, or composting businesses within the State of Hawaii.
SECTION 2. Chapter 342G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part V to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§342G- Recycling
facility grant program . (a) There is established in the office within the
department a recycling facility grant program to be administered by the department. The department shall issue grants to
recycling facility operators to assist them in offsetting the costs of
operations within the State.
(b) Grant program funds shall be disbursed from
the environmental management special fund established under section 342G-63 upon
approval by the department, to the recycling facility operator for up to
$750,000.
(c) Any recycling facility operator requesting a
grant shall:
(1) Be licensed and
accredited, as applicable, under the laws of the State;
(2) Submit its
request together with all the information required by the director on an application
form provided by the department;
(3) Comply
with all applicable federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination against
any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex,
age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected
under applicable federal or state law;
(4) Not use the grant
for purposes of entertainment or perquisites;
(5) Comply with any
other requirements the director may prescribe;
(6) Allow the
director, the legislative bodies, and the legislative auditor full access to
records, reports, files, and other related documents so that the program,
management, and fiscal practices of the grant recipient may be monitored and
evaluated to assure the proper and effective expenditure of public funds; and
(7) Be monitored
according to rules established by the director to ensure compliance with this
section.
(d) Any recipient of a grant under this section
who withholds or omits any material fact or deliberately misrepresents facts to
the director or who violates the terms of the recipient's contract shall be in
violation of this section and, in addition to any other penalties provided by
law, shall be prohibited from applying for a grant under this section for a
period of five years from the date of termination."
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
recycling facility grant program to incentivize reduction, recycling,
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 implementation of the recycling facility grant program pursuant to this Act, including one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) contract specialist position .
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of solid waste management 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, 2020.
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 a recycling facility grant program to incentivize recycling in the State. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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