Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-56

  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, sludge from waste treatment plants and water supply treatment plants, and residues from air pollution control facilities and community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage or other substances in water sources such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants, or source, special nuclear, or by-product material as defined by the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1
  • Waste: means sewage, industrial and agricultural matter, and all other liquid, gaseous, or solid substance, including radioactive substance, whether treated or not, which may pollute or tend to pollute the atmosphere, lands or waters of this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342H-1

In addition to any other power or duty prescribed by law or this part, the director may establish by rule a municipal solid waste landfill program that meets or exceeds the standards, criteria, and requirements set forth in the federal municipal solid waste landfill regulations, 40 C.F.R. part 258.