Bill Text: HI SB2600 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Underground Storage Tanks.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-27 - Act 157, on 06/27/2022 (Gov. Msg. No. 1258). [SB2600 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2600-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 STORAGE TANKS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. 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- Permits near aquifer prohibited. (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; provided that a permit may be issued by the department for purposes of
repairing or removing an existing underground storage tank.
(b)
Beginning January 1, 2023, 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.
(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.
"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, 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 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Large Capacity Underground Storage Tank Systems; Aquifers; Permits; Prohibition
Description:
Prohibits issuance of permits for future large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the underground injection control line beginning July 1, 2022. Prohibits operation of and renewal of large capacity underground storage tank system permits located mauka of the underground injection control line beginning January 1, 2023. (SD2)
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