Bill Text: HI HB2274 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Underground Fuel Storage Tanks.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-23 - The committee on AEN deferred the measure. [HB2274 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-HB2274-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO UNDERGROUND FUEL STORAGE TANKS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that fresh water and streams have been among the most important natural resources to Hawaii's people. Dating back to ancient Hawaii, the sanctity of fresh water, or wai, is reflected in the way water permeates throughout olelo Hawaii, the Hawaiian spoken language. For example, the Hawaiian word for "law" is kanawai, which literally translates to the "equal sharing of water". The Hawaiian word waiwai, water repeated twice, means abundance and prosperity. In Native Hawaiian culture, to have water is to have wealth.
The legislature further finds that the purity and safety of the State's fresh water is in jeopardy of contamination. In December 2021, the United States Navy confirmed that the Red Hill bulk fuel storage facility on Oahu leaked petroleum into the Navy's water system, contaminating the drinking water for residents and personnel at Joint-Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and surrounding neighborhoods. More than ninety-two thousand people were impacted within weeks, with some reporting ill effects from ingesting the fuel-tainted water.
Therefore, the purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Prohibit the department of health from issuing new permits for large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the applicable underground injection control line; and
(2) Prohibit the operation of and renewal of permits for large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the applicable underground injection control line, beginning January 1, 2045.
SECTION 2. Chapter 342L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§342L- Large
capacity underground storage tank systems; prohibited. (a)
Beginning July 1, 2022, the department shall
not issue a permit for a new large capacity underground storage tank system located
mauka of the applicable underground injection control line; provided that a permit
may be issued by the department for purposes of repairing or replacing an existing
large capacity underground storage tank system.
(b) Beginning
January 1, 2045, no person shall operate a large capacity underground storage tank
system located mauka of the applicable underground injection control line, and no
permit for a large capacity underground storage tank system located mauka of the
underground injection control line shall be renewed."
SECTION 3. Section 342L-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding three new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Large capacity underground
storage tank system" means an underground storage tank system with any single
tank with a capacity greater than 50,000 gallons or with a total tank capacity greater
than 100,000 gallons.
"Mauka" means toward the
mountains or the encircled underground source of drinking water.
"Underground injection control
line" means the underground injection control line represented by a dashed
line on the State of Hawaii department of health underground injection control program
maps, made effective July 6, 1984, 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."
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect July 1, 2060.
Report Title:
Large Capacity Underground Storage Tank Systems; Underground Injection Control Line; Permits; Prohibition
Description:
Prohibits the issuance of future large capacity underground fuel storage tanks mauka of the applicable underground injection control line. Prohibits the operation of and renewal of permits for large capacity underground fuel storage tank permits located mauka of the applicable underground injection control line beginning 1/1/2045. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD2)
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