Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 340E - Safe Drinking Water

• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Agency: means any agency, board, commission, department, or officer of a county government or the state government, including the authority as defined in part II. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-1
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Article: means any previously owned good or chattel, including, but not limited to, precious or semiprecious metals or precious or semiprecious gems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486M-1
• Authority: means the county planning commission, except in counties where the county planning commission is advisory only, in which case "authority" means the county council or such body as the council may by ordinance designate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-1
• Automated recycling kiosk: means an interactive device that is installed within a secure retail space and performs the following technological functions:
  (1)Only accepts for recycling previously owned handheld electronic cellular phone devices;
  (2)Verifies a seller's identity through a combination of technology within the kiosk and remote examination of a government-issued identification by a live representative during each transaction;
  (3)Securely stores devices accepted by the kiosk;
  (4)Records images of the seller and the devices accepted during the transaction;
  (5)Possesses computerized record-keeping and transmittal capabilities;
  (6)Electronically transmits transaction records to law enforcement within twenty-four hours from when the device was received; and
  (7)Can be remotely opened upon request by law enforcement during normal business hours. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486M-1
• Aviation fuel: means and includes all liquid substances of whatever chemical composition usable for the propulsion of airplanes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Biofuels: means liquid or gaseous fuels produced from organic sources such as biomass crops, agricultural residues, and oil crops, such as palm oil, canola oil, soybean oil, waste cooking oil, grease, and food wastes, animal residues and wastes, and sewage and landfill wastes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Business day: means any calendar day on which the health club is open for inspection and use by the buyer, except Saturdays, Sundays, and state or federal holidays. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Buyer: means a natural person who enters into a health club contract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Classes of retail trade: means the separate subdivisions, or "classes" of outlets or methods of retail sales of liquid fuels, typically but not always limited to gasoline and diesel for motor vehicles, and includes any:

  (1) Company-operated station that is a retail service station owned and operated by a refiner or wholesale distributor and where retail prices are set by that refiner or wholesale distributor;

  (2) Lessee dealer-operated station that is a retail service station owned by a refiner or wholesale distributor and operated by a qualified gasoline dealer other than a refiner or wholesale distributor under a franchise; or

  (3) Owner-operated station that is a retail service station not owned by a refiner or wholesale distributor and operated by a qualified gasoline dealer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1

• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Contaminant: means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Contract price: means the price for the purchase of a membership in a health club or for services offered by a health club or for use of the facilities of a health club. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Dealer: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity who engages in a business which includes the buying of previously owned [articles,] and includes any pawnbroker or secondhand dealer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486M-1
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Department: means the planning department of the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii and the department of planning and permitting of the city and county of Honolulu, or other appropriate agency as designated by the county councils. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-22
• Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Director: means the director of health or the director's authorized agent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Distributor: means :

  (1) Every person who refines, manufactures, produces, or compounds fuel in the State and sells it at wholesale or at retail;

  (2) Every person who imports or causes to be imported into the State, or exports or causes to be exported from the State, any fuel;

  (3) Every person who acquires fuel through exchanges with another distributor; or

  (4) Every person who purchases fuel for resale at wholesale or retail from any person described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3); provided that "distributor" shall not include a marina, lessee dealer-operated station, owner-operated station, or other retailer that retails fuel only to end users or the public. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1

• Drinking water fund: means the drinking water treatment revolving loan fund established by section 340E-35. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-31
• Energy: means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• EPA risk assessment guidelines: means guidelines developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the assessment of health risks from environmental pollutants and includes, but is not limited to, Guidelines for Estimating Exposures, Guidelines for Mutagenicity Risk Assessment, Guidelines for the Health Assessment of Suspect Developmental Toxicants, and Guidelines for the Health Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-21
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Act: means the Safe Drinking Water Act, Public Law 93-523, as amended by the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986, Public Law 99-339, and the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, Public Law 104-182. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Federal agency: means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Federal drinking water guidelines: means a proposed maximum contamination level, health advisory, or other guidance developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to assist a state agency in responding to a contaminant in drinking water for which no maximum contamination level (MCL) is established. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-21
• Fuel: means fuels, whether liquid, solid, or gaseous, commercially usable for energy needs, power generation, and fuels manufacture, that may be manufactured, grown, produced, or imported into the State or that may be exported therefrom, including petroleum and petroleum products and gases, coal, coal tar, vegetable ferments, and all fuel alcohols. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Gasoline: includes gasoline, benzol, benzine, naphtha, and any other liquid prepared, advertised, offered for sale, sold for use as, or used for, the generation of power for the propulsion of motor vehicles, including any product obtained by blending together any one or more petroleum products with or without other products, if the resultant product is capable of the same use. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Government issued identification: means :
  (1) A passport issued by the United States of America;
  (2) A [driver's] license issued pursuant to any state or District of Columbia law;
  (3) An identification card issued by any state or local government or the Bureau of Indian Affairs; or
  (4) An identification card issued by any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States of America. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486M-1
• Guest: means a person who is registered at the hotel and to whom a bedroom is assigned. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Health club: means any person operating a business organized for profit, offering facilities or services for the maintenance or development of physical fitness or well-being through physical exercise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Health club contract: means a contract for membership in a health club, or for services offered by a health club, or for use of facilities of a health club, for a period longer than seven days. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486N-1
• Injection: means the subsurface emplacement of any material, liquid, semi-solid, or solid, or any admixture thereof, which may add a contaminant to underground waters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interim action level: means a level established by the director of health for a contaminant in a public drinking water supply for which a maximum contamination level is not established by the EPA. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-21
• Inventory: means the volume, in barrels, of reserve that is normally maintained by the reporting entity on a monthly basis. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Jobber: means every wholesaler of petroleum products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• keeper: includes any individual, firm, or corporation actually operating a hotel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Land: means the earth, water, and air above, below, or on the surface. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-1
• Lead agency: means the office of planning and sustainable development. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-1
• Liquid fuel: means fuels in liquid form, commercially usable for energy needs, power generation, and fuels that may be manufactured, produced, or imported into the State or that may be exported therefrom, including petroleum and petroleum products and all fuel alcohols. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Manufacturer: means every producer or refiner of petroleum products on January 1, 1992, or any subsidiary of that producer or refiner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• National primary drinking water regulations: means primary drinking water regulations promulgated by the administrator pursuant to the Federal Act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Pawnbroker: means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity who advances for interest or for or in expectation of profit, gain, or reward any sum of money upon security of any goods or chattels taken by such person by way of pawn or pledge, and includes any person subject to part V of chapter 445. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486M-1
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Person: means an individual, corporation, or partnership, and an organization or association, whether or not incorporated. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-1
• Person: means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, county, city and county, state, or federal agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Petroleum products: includes motor vehicle fuel, residual oils number 4, 5, and 6, and all grades of jet (turbo) fuel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Pre-tax: when used in reference to a price means such price net of the fuel-related or other taxes assessed when the gasoline is sold. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Primary drinking water regulation: means a regulation or rule which:

  (1) Applies to public water systems;

  (2) Specifies contaminants which, in the judgment of the director, may have any adverse effect on the health of persons;

  (3) Specifies for each contaminant either:

  (A) A maximum contaminant level if, in the judgment of the director, it is economically and technologically feasible to ascertain the level of such contaminant in public water systems; or

  (B) If, in the judgment of the director, it is not economically or technologically feasible to ascertain the contaminant level[,] each treatment technique known to the director which leads to a reduction in the level of such contaminant sufficient to satisfy the requirements of § 340E-2; and

  (4) Contains criteria and procedures to assure a supply of drinking water which dependably complies with such maximum contaminant levels, including accepted methods for quality control and testing procedures to insure compliance with such levels and proper operation and maintenance of the system, and requirements as to:

  (A) The minimum quality of water which may be taken into the system; and

  (B) Siting for new facilities for public water systems. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-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.
• Public water system: means a system which provides water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves at least twenty-five individuals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Refiner: means any person who owns, operates, or controls the operations of one or more refineries in Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Reliable analytical data: means information approved by the director as indicating the presence of a contaminant in a water sample at or above the limit of detection and developed according to generally recognized standards of good field practices and good laboratory practices for sampling and analysis of contaminants in water. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-21
• Sale: means any exchange, gift, or other disposition. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486H-1
• Secondhand dealer: means any person who trades in secondhand or previously owned articles, including the operation of an automated recycling kiosk, and includes any person subject to part VII of chapter 445. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486M-1
• Security box: means any metal or alloy box, used in a hotel for the safekeeping of any valuables, which may be securely locked with a locking mechanism that meets or exceeds Underwriters Laboratories standards and which shall be secured in a manner which precludes its removal from the room. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
• Shoreline: means the upper reaches of the wash of the waves, other than storm and seismic waves, at high tide during the season of the year in which the highest wash of the waves occurs, usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation growth, or the upper limit of debris left by the wash of the waves. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-1
• Special management area: means the land extending inland from the shoreline as delineated on the maps filed with the authority as of June 8, 1977, or as amended pursuant to § 205A-23. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-22
• Storage capacity: means the maximum volume, in barrels, of used and useful facility capacity for storage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Structure: includes but is not limited to any building, road, pipe, flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line, and electrical power transmission and distribution line. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 205A-22
• Supplier of water: means any person who owns or operates a public water system. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 340E-1
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Valuables: includes money, bank notes, bonds, precious stones, jewelry, ornaments, watches, securities, transportation tickets, photographic cameras, checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments, business papers, documents, and other papers, and other articles of value. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1