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

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2600

THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 2

 

C.D. 1

 

 

 

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-    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 mauka of the underground injection control line.

     (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 section 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."

     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; Underground Injection Control Lines; Permits; Prohibition

 

Description:

Beginning 7/1/2022, prohibits issuance of permits for future large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the underground injection control line.  Beginning 7/1/2022, prohibits operation of, and renewal of permits for, large capacity underground storage tank systems located mauka of the underground injection control line, except for maintenance necessary to safely support defueling, environmental requirements, operations directly related to defueling or actions required in emergency situations.  (CD1)

 

 

 

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