Haw. Code R. § 11-453-2
The following words or terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:
"Administrator" means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, title 42 United States Code sections 9601 - 9675.
"Commission" means the Hawaii state emergency response commission.
"Committee" means the local emergency planning committee within each county responsible for preparing hazardous material plans and performing other functions under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 and chapter 128E, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).
"County agency" means a county or any officer or agency thereof.
"Department" means the department of health.
"Director" means the director of health.
"EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"EPCRA" means the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, as amended, title ' 42 United States Code sections 11001 - 11050.
"Emergency response plan" means a written plan outlining procedures to protect public health and safety in the event of an accidental release of an extremely hazardous substance. The required elements for an emergency response plan are listed in section 11-453-29(b).
"Environment" means any waters, including surface water, ground water, or drinking water; any land surface or any subsurface strata; or any ambient air, within the State or under the jurisdiction of the State.
"Extremely hazardous substance" or "EHS" means any substance listed in title 40 Code of Federal Regulations part 355, appendices A and B, as amended.
"Facility" means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly-owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor carrier, rolling stock, aircraft, site, or area where a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant has been deposited, stored, disposed of, or placed, or otherwise comes to be located. The term does not include any consumer product in consumer use.
"Hazardous chemical" means any hazardous chemical as defined under title 29 Code of Federal Regulations section 1910.1200(c), except that such term does not include the following substances:
(1) Any food, food additive, color additive, drug, or cosmetic regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
(2) Any substance present as a solid in any manufactured item to the extent exposure to the substance does not occur under normal conditions of use.
(3) Any substance to the extent it is used for personal, family, or household purposes, or is present in the same form and concentration as a product packaged for distribution and use by the general public.
(4) Any substance to the extent it is used in a research laboratory or a hospital or other medical facility under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual.
(5) Any substance to the extent it is used in routine agricultural operations or is a fertilizer held for sale by a retailer to the ultimate customer.
"Hazardous material" or "hazardous substance" means any hazardous substance as defined in section 128D-1, HRS, and designated in section 11-451-5.
"HEPCRA" means the Hawaii Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
"Material Safety Data Sheet" or "MSDS" means the sheet required to be developed under title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations section 1910.1200(g).
"Person" means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state, county, commission, or, to the extent the United States or an interstate body is subject to this chapter, the United States or the interstate body.
"Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of any hazardous substance, or pollutant or contaminant into the environment, including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing a hazardous substance, or pollutant or contaminant. The term does not include:
(1) Any release that results in the exposure of persons solely within a workplace, with respect to claims that these persons may assert against their employer;
(2) Emissions from the engine exhaust of a motor vehicle, rolling stock, aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping station engine;
(3) Release of a source, byproduct, or special nuclear material from a nuclear incident, as those terms are defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, title 42 United States Code section 2011 et seq., if-this release is subject to requirements with respect to financial protection established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under title 42 United States Code section 2210;
(4) Any release resulting from the normal application of fertilizer;
(5) Any release resulting from the legal application of a pesticide product registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended; or
(6) Any release from sewerage systems collecting and conducting primarily domestic wastewater.
"Reportable quantity" means the quantity of a hazardous material stated on the various lists of hazardous substances as defined in section 128D, HRS, and designated in section 11-451-6.
"SARA Title III" means Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, title 42 United States Code sections 11001 - 11050.
"Threshold planning quantity" or "TPQ" means the threshold planning quantity for an "extremely hazardous substance" as defined in title 40 Code of Federal Regulations part 355.
"Toxic chemical" means a substance appearing on the list of chemicals described in section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, as set forth in title 40 Code of Federal Regulations part 372.
Haw. Code R. § 11-453-2