The director may:

(1) Establish ambient air quality standards for the State as a whole or for any part thereof;
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-12

  • Administrator: means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor air of substances in quantities and for durations which may endanger human health or welfare, plant or animal life, or property or which may unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property throughout the State and in such areas of the State as are affected thereby, but excludes all aspects of employer-employee relationships as to health and safety hazards. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Ambient air: means the general outdoor atmosphere. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Emission: means the act of releasing or discharging air pollutants into the ambient air from any source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Fugitive dust: means uncontrolled emission of solid airborne particulate matter from any source other than combustion. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Permit: means written authorization from the director to construct, modify, relocate, or operate any regulated air pollutant source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
(2) Establish and administer any permit program;
(3) Establish by rule the control of open burning, fugitive dust, and visible emissions;
(4) Establish by rule the control of vehicular smoke emission and require the installation, use, and proper operation and maintenance of air pollution control equipment for motor vehicles;
(5) Establish and administer a program of inspection and testing of all modes of transportation except aircraft, to enforce compliance with applicable emission limitations when necessary and practicable, and to control or limit the operation of motor vehicular and other modes of transportation when the director finds pursuant to standards established by rules such modes of transportation are producing or pose an immediate danger of producing unacceptable levels of air pollution or when such control is necessary to meet applicable ambient air quality standards;
(6) Establish by rule other specific areas for control of air pollution, thereby allowing for varying conditions;
(7) Establish standards of performance or rules for existing, new, or modified stationary sources or adopt standards of performance for existing, new, or modified stationary sources as promulgated by the administrator;
(8) Establish maximum achievable control technology standards or rules for the control of hazardous air pollutants from existing, new, or modified sources or adopt maximum achievable control technology as promulgated by the administrator;
(9) Establish rules for the prevention of significant deterioration of air quality or adopt prevention of significant deterioration regulations as promulgated by the administrator; and
(10) Establish rules allowing for environmental permit shields.

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