(a) The owner or operator of a covered source shall obtain a permit from the department. The director may exempt any nonmajor category of covered sources from the permit obligation for a period of five years after the effective date of the rules establishing the permit program.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-22

  • Compliance plan: means a plan which includes a description of how a source proposes to comply with all applicable requirements pursuant to this chapter and includes a schedule of compliance and a schedule under which the permittee will submit progress reports to the department no less frequently than every six months. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Covered source: means :

    (1) Any major source;

    (2) Any source subject to a standard of performance for new stationary sources as established by the director pursuant to this chapter;

    (3) Any source subject to an emissions standard for hazardous air pollutants as established by the director pursuant to this chapter;

    (4) Any source subject to the rules for the prevention of significant deterioration of air quality as established by the director pursuant to this chapter; and

    (5) Any source in a source category designated by the director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1

  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner or operator: means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a stationary source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Permit: means written authorization from the director to construct, modify, relocate, or operate any regulated air pollutant source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Permit program: means the program established pursuant to part III of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state, county, commission, political subdivision of the State, or, to the extent they are subject to this chapter, the United States or any interstate body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
  • Source: means any property, real or personal, which emits or may emit any air pollutant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
(b) Within twelve months after the effective date of the rules establishing the permit program, the owner or operator of a covered source shall submit to the department an application for a permit and a compliance plan.
(c) No person shall begin construction, modification, or relocation of any covered source without first obtaining a permit from the director.
(d) The director may require any person who owns, operates, or desires to construct, modify, or relocate a source other than a covered source to obtain a permit prior to the construction, modification, relocation, operation, or continued operation.
(e) Permits being renewed shall be subject to the same procedural requirements that apply to initial permit issuance, including the procedure of federal oversight and public participation.
(f) Permit expiration terminates the source’s right to operate unless a timely and complete renewal application is submitted to the department and provided the owner or operator acts consistently with the permit previously granted, the application on which it was granted, and all plans, specifications, and other information submitted as a part thereof.

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