Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 486J - Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act

• Aviation fuel: means and includes all liquid substances of whatever chemical composition usable for the propulsion of airplanes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• 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
• 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
• Department: means the department of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Director: means the director of business, economic development, and tourism. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-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

• Energy: means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-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

• Refiner: means any person who owns, operates, or controls the operations of one or more refineries in Hawaii. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1
• Storage capacity: means the maximum volume, in barrels, of used and useful facility capacity for storage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486J-1