[PART V.]  WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FINANCING

 

Cross References

 

  Drinking water financing, see §§340E-31 to 340E-41.

 

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-80

  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Party: means each person or agency named as party or properly entitled to be a party in any court or agency proceeding. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, federal agency, the State or any of its political subdivisions, trust, estate, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Pollution: means water pollution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Revolving fund: means the water pollution control revolving fund established by § 342D-83. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-80
  • Water pollution: means :

         (1)  Such contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any state waters, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters, or

         (2)  Such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substances into any state waters,

    as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters unreasonably harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare, including harm, detriment, or injury to public water supplies, fish and aquatic life and wildlife, recreational purposes and agricultural and industrial research and scientific uses of such waters or as will or is likely to violate any water quality standards, effluent standards, treatment and pretreatment standards, or standards of performance for new sources adopted by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1

     §342D-80  Definitions.  As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

     “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” means the federal law, Public Law 111-5, making appropriations for various purposes, including job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and state and local fiscal stabilization purposes.

     “Corpus allocation” means the amount of moneys in the revolving fund that is allocated by the director to provide earnings to reduce an eligible party‘s total financing costs for one or more eligible projects.

     “Eligible party” means a county, state agency, or private person.

     “Revolving fund” means the water pollution control revolving fund established by § 342D-83.