Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 343 - Environmental Impact Statements

• Acceptance: means a formal determination that the document required to be filed pursuant to § 343-5 fulfills the definition of an environmental impact statement, adequately describes identifiable environmental impacts, and satisfactorily responds to comments received during the review of the statement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Action: means any program or project to be initiated by any agency or applicant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Agency: means any department, office, board, or commission of the state or county government which is a part of the executive branch of that government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Applicant: means any person who, pursuant to statute, ordinance, or rule, officially requests approval for a proposed action. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Approval: means a discretionary consent required from an agency prior to actual implementation of an action. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Approved continuing education course: means a course approved by the commissioner following receipt of recommendations from insurance professionals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
• Approved course provider: means an individual or entity that is approved to offer continuing education courses pursuant to article 9A. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
• Authority: means the Hawaii community development authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: means the environmental advisory council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Director: means the director of the office of planning and sustainable development. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Discretionary consent: means a consent, sanction, or recommendation from an agency for which judgment and free will may be exercised by the issuing agency, as distinguished from a ministerial consent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Environmental assessment: means a written evaluation to determine whether an action may have a significant effect. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Finding of no significant impact: means a determination based on an environmental assessment that the subject action will not have a significant effect and, therefore, will not require the preparation of an environmental impact statement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Helicopter facility: means any area of land or water which is used, or intended for use for the landing or takeoff of helicopters; and any appurtenant areas which are used, or intended for use for helicopter related activities or rights-of-way. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Inactive: means that the authority of a license issued by the commissioner is not in effect. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• License: means a document issued by the commissioner authorizing a person to act as a surplus lines broker as specified in the document. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
• Licensee: means a surplus lines broker licensed under this article. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Office: means the office of planning and sustainable development. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes any individual, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, private corporation, or other legal entity other than an agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Power-generating facility: means :

  (1) A new, fossil-fueled, electricity-generating facility, where the electrical output rating of the new equipment exceeds 5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2

• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Project: means a specific work or improvement, including real and personal properties, or any interest therein, acquired, owned, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, or improved by the authority, including a commercial project, a redevelopment project, or a residential project, all as defined as follows, or any combination thereof, which combination shall hereinafter be called and known as a "multipurpose project". See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-2
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reserved housing: means housing designated for residents in the low- or moderate-income ranges who meet such eligibility requirements as the authority may adopt by rule. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-101
• Reserved housing loan programs: includes all or any part of the loan to lenders program, the purchase of existing loans program, the advance commitments program, and the eligible loan and eligible project loan funding program authorized under this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-101
• Revenue bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness of the authority issued to finance any of the reserved housing loan programs under this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-101
• Significant effect: means the sum of effects on the quality of the environment, including actions that irrevocably commit a natural resource, curtail the range of beneficial uses of the environment, are contrary to the State's environmental policies or long-term environmental goals as established by law, or adversely affect the economic welfare, social welfare, or cultural practices of the community and State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• statement: means an informational document prepared in compliance with the rules adopted under § 343-6 and which discloses the environmental effects of a proposed action, effects of a proposed action on the economic welfare, social welfare, and cultural practices of the community and State, effects of the economic activities arising out of the proposed action, measures proposed to minimize adverse effects, and alternatives to the action and their environmental effects. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Surplus lines broker: means any person licensed under section 431:8-310 to place insurance on risks resident, located, or to be performed in this State with unauthorized insurers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
• Surplus lines insurance: means any property and casualty insurance on risks procured from or placed with an unauthorized insurer under the laws of the insured's home state. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 431:8-102
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trust indenture: means an agreement by and between the authority and the trustee, which sets forth the duties of the trustee with respect to the revenue bonds, the security therefor, and other provisions as deemed necessary or convenient by the authority to secure the revenue bonds. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-101
• Trustee: means a national or state bank or trust company within or without the State which enters into a trust indenture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 206E-101
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Wastewater treatment unit: means any plant or facility used in the treatment of wastewater. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 343-2