Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 60.1 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
Subchapter 2 - GENERAL PROHIBITIONS
Section 11-60.1-38 - Sulfur oxides from fuel combustion
Current through February, 2024
(a) No person shall burn any fuel containing in excess of two percent sulfur by weight.
(b) No person shall burn any fuel containing in excess of 0.50 percent sulfur by weight in any fossil fuel fired power and steam generating unit having a power generating output in excess of twenty-five megawatts or a heat input greater than two hundred fifty million BTU per hour.
(c) Compliance with sulfur by weight requirements shall be determined by evaluating sulfur by weight pursuant to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) methods.
(d) The use of fuels prohibited in subsections (a) and (b) may be allowed at the director's sole discretion if it can be demonstrated that the use of these fuels will result in equivalent or lower emission rates of oxides of sulfur. Compliance with oxides of sulfur emissions requirements shall be determined by evaluating oxides of sulfur emissions pursuant to 40 CFR Part 60, Appendix A-4, Method 8 or other EPA approved methods.