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HI SB513
Bill
Status
1/17/2025
Primary Sponsor
Tim Richards
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AI Summary
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Authorizes the Department of Health to permit counties to implement gray water recycling programs allowing farms of less than ten square acres to use gray water for irrigation.
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Restricts gray water use on farms to non-edible vegetation in areas with limited public access, fodder/fiber/seed crops not consumed by humans, or timber and trees not bearing food crops.
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Adds farms to the existing gray water recycling program, which previously limited gray water use to lawns and gardens only.
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Requires all gray water use to conform to the state plumbing code, chapter 3-183, Hawaii administrative rules.
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Becomes effective upon approval.
Legislative Description
Relating To Water.
Agriculture
Last Action
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.
2/14/2025