(a) Every owner or operator of a major source within Campbell Industrial Park or Kahe Valley or every owner or operator of a geothermal facility that emits criteria air pollutants in excess of one hundred tons per year shall submit an annual report to the department within sixty days of the beginning of each year, which shall describe the following:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-18

  • Ambient air: means the general outdoor atmosphere. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Major source: means any stationary source, or any group of stationary sources that are located on one or more contiguous properties, and are under common control, belonging to a single major industrial grouping and that emits or has the potential to emit, considering controls:

    (1) Any hazardous air pollutant, except radionuclides, in the aggregate of ten tons per year or more, twenty-five tons per year or more of any combination, or such lesser quantity as the director may establish by rule;

    (2) One hundred tons per year or more of any regulated air pollutant, including fugitive emissions of any such regulated air pollutant as the director may establish by rule; and

    (3) For radionuclides, "major source" shall have the meaning specified by the director by rule. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1

  • Owner or operator: means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a stationary source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
(1) The type and quantity of criteria pollutants emitted by the facility during the previous year;
(2) A description of controls, operating procedures, or other measures being used by the owner or operator to control emissions of these criteria pollutants.
(b) The department shall review and evaluate the information submitted under subsection [(a)] and produce a report. The department shall include the following information in the reports:

(1) A summary of the ambient air quality data collected for each criteria pollutant monitored;
(2) A comparison of the monitoring data collected against state and federal ambient air quality standards;
(3) Impacts of the monitored criteria pollutants’ adverse effects on human health and the environment; and
(4) A report on air quality trends over a five-year period.
(c) The department shall distribute the reports described in this section on a monthly basis to adjacent neighborhood boards or community associations, or both.

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