(a) Beginning July 1, 2022, the department shall not issue a permit for a new large capacity underground storage tank system mauka of the underground injection control line.

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342L-4.2

  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342L-1
  • Permit: means written authorization from the director to install or operate an underground storage tank or tank system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342L-1
  • Person: means an individual, trust, estate, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, commission, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, the State or a county, the United States government, federal agency, interstate body, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342L-1
  • tank: means any one or combination of tanks (including pipes connected thereto) used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, and the volume of which (including the volume of the underground pipes connected thereto) is ten per cent or more beneath the surface of the ground. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342L-1
  • tank system: means an underground storage tank, connected underground piping, underground ancillary equipment, and containment system, if any. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342L-1
(b) Beginning July 1, 2022, no person shall operate a large capacity underground storage tank system mauka of the underground injection control line, and no permit for a large capacity underground storage tank system mauka of the underground injection control line shall be renewed; provided that this subsection shall not apply to operations necessary to address maintenance required to safely support defueling, environmental requirements, any operations directly related to defueling, or requirements under section 342L-9.
(c) As used in this section:

“Large capacity underground storage tank system” means an underground storage tank system with any single tank with a capacity greater than fifty thousand gallons or with a total tank capacity greater than one hundred thousand gallons.

“Mauka” means toward the mountains or the encircled protected aquifer.

“Underground injection control line” means the underground injection control line represented by a dashed line on the department of health underground injection control program maps, made effective July 6, 1984, pursuant to § 340E-2 and identified as follows:

(1) For the island of Hawaii, quadrangles H-1 to H-74;
(2) For the island of Kauai, quadrangles K-1 to K-11;
(3) For the island of Lanai, quadrangles L-North and L-South;
(4) For the island of Maui, quadrangles M-1 to M-17;
(5) For the island of Molokai, quadrangles M-East and M-West; and
(6) For the island of Oahu, quadrangles O-1 to O-15.