Bill Text: HI SB2980 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Underground Storage Tanks.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-24 - Referred to HTH/AEN, JDC/WAM. [SB2980 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2980-Introduced.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. The legislature finds that decisive action is needed to protect Hawaii's groundwater from contamination. Large capacity underground storage tank systems pose a threat to the potability of the State's groundwater.
The purpose of this Act is to protect state aquifers by prohibiting the operation of large-capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the underground injection control line, beginning January 1, 2023.
SECTION 2. Chapter 342L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§342L- Underground storage tank system; underground injection control line; prohibition. Beginning January 1, 2023, no person shall operate an underground storage tank system that has a capacity of 100,000 gallons or more, mauka of the underground injection control line.
For purposes of this section:
"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.
"Underground injection
control program" means the program established pursuant to section 340E-2.
"Underground source of
drinking water" means an aquifer or its portion that:
(1) Supplies any
public or private drinking water system or contains a sufficient quantity of
ground water to supply a public water system; and
(A) Currently
supplies drinking water for human consumption; or
(B) Contains
fewer than ten thousand milligrams per liter total dissolved solids; and
(2) Is not an exempted aquifer."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Underground Storage Tank System; Large Capacity Tanks; Safe Drinking Water; Underground Injection Control Line
Description:
Prohibits, beginning January 1, 2023, a person to operate an underground storage system with a capacity of 100,000 gallons or more, mauka of the underground injection control line.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
