Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-6 – Inspection of premises
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-6
- Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
- Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
- Permit: means written authorization from the director to construct, modify, and operate any solid waste management system or any component of any solid waste management system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
- Pollution: means solid waste pollution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
- Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, sludge from waste treatment plants and water supply treatment plants, and residues from air pollution control facilities and community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or other substances in water sources such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants, or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
- Variance: means special written authorization from the director to do an act that deviates from applicable standards or from the requirements of rules adopted under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
- Waste: means sewage, industrial and agricultural matter, and all other liquid, gaseous, or solid substance, including radioactive substance, whether treated or not, which may pollute or tend to pollute the atmosphere, lands or waters of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
The director, in accordance with law, may enter and inspect any facility, building, or place to investigate an actual or suspected source of solid waste pollution, to ascertain compliance or noncompliance with this chapter or any rule or standard adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter, any permit or variance issued by the department pursuant to this chapter, and to make reasonable tests in connection therewith. No confidential information secured pursuant to this section by any official or employee of the department within the scope and course of the official’s or employee’s employment in the prevention, control, or abatement of solid waste pollution shall be disclosed by the official or employee except as it relates directly to solid waste pollution and then, only in connection with the official’s or employee’s official duties and within the scope and course of the official’s or employee’s employment.