S.R. No. 64 Summary

• Urges the Department of Health to enforce Hawaii Revised Statutes Section 342H-30 to ensure incinerator ash is properly contained in landfills with secure tarps to prevent wind dispersal into communities.

• Notes that H-Power, Hawaii's only trash incinerator at Campbell Industrial Park on Oahu, processes up to 2,600 tons of waste daily and produces ash currently dumped at Waimanalo Gulch Landfill.

• States that EPA categorizes incinerator ash as non-hazardous despite testing showing fly ash qualifies as hazardous over 90% of the time due to lead and cadmium leaching, and bottom ash would test hazardous 36% of the time.

• Opposes the City and County of Honolulu's planned ash "recycling" facility that would use incinerator ash for road construction, arguing this increases worker and public exposure to toxic metals including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury.

• Notifies the City and County of Honolulu that recycling or reusing incinerator ash violates state law and is not protective of public health.