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Hawaii State Association of Counties (HSAC) Counties of Kaua`i, Maui, and Hawaii, and City & County of Honolulu RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO ADOPT HOUSE BILL 1521 (HB 1521) RELATING TO AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 339D, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, REGARDING ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING. WHEREAS, on January 1, 2009, Act 13 became law establishing responsibilities on retailers, manufacturers and the State Department of Health to encourage recycling of electronic devices sold within the State by establishing an electronic device recycling (e- recycle) program; and WHEREAS, Act 13 clearly provides the intent to encourage electronic device recycling, however it falls short of requiring the methodology by which the relevant parties are required to minimally satisfy the intent; and WHEREAS, HB 1521 was entered in the 2011 Legislative Session as a Bill for an Act to add four new sections to Chapter 339D, Hawai`i Revised Statutes, that address market share, liability for stored information, environmental management and state procurement; and WHEREAS, HB 1521 was heard and successfully passed first reading out of the Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection and the Committee on Economic Revitalization and Business; and WHEREAS, HB 1521 has been referred to the Committee on Finance for the 2012 legislative session; and WHEREAS, the State of Hawai`i and its respective counties incur increased cost and expense of air and sea transportation for interisland and world movement of products for e- recycling, however, the City and County of Honolulu currently engages in some measure of drop -off commercial e- recycling; and WHEREAS, neighbor islands in the State of Hawai`i have insufficient quantities of electronic devices to support commercial e- recycling businesses and must depend on expensive and prohibitive government subsidies to maintain an e- recycle program; and WHEREAS, the current requirement that manufacturers offer a recycle option is satisfied by costs to the consumer for expensive and woefully inadequate mail -back programs; and WHEREAS, representatives from all counties within the State have submitted testimony in favor of HB 1521, which included modifications to strengthen the e- recycle responsibility of the manufacturer and to support the provision not to accept manufacturer plans that contain mail -back options; and 3371 -A Wilcox Road, LThu`e, Kauai, Hawaii 96766, (808) 241 -4188