Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 60.1 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
Subchapter 2 - GENERAL PROHIBITIONS
Section 11-60.1-39 - Storage of volatile organic compounds
Current through February, 2024
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c), no person shall place, store, or hold in any stationary tank, reservoir, or other container of more than a forty thousand-gallon (one hundred fifty thousand-liter) capacity any volatile organic compound which, as stored, has a true vapor pressure equal to or greater than 1.5 pounds per square inch absolute unless the tank, reservoir, or other container is pressurized and capable of maintaining working pressures sufficient at all times to prevent vapor or gas loss to the atmosphere or is designed and equipped with one of the following vapor loss control devices:
(b) Compliance with true vapor pressure requirements shall be determined by evaluating vapor pressure pursuant to ASTM Method D323-82 or other EPA approved methods.
(c) No person shall place, store, or hold in any new stationary storage tank, reservoir, or other container of more than a two hundred fifty-gallon (nine hundred fifty-liter) capacity any volatile organic compound unless such tank, reservoir, or other container is equipped with a permanent submerged fill pipe, is a pressure tank as described in subsection(a), or is fitted with a vapor recovery system as described in subsection (a)(2).
(d) Underground tanks shall be exempted from the requirements of subsection (a) if the total volume of volatile organic compounds added to and taken from a tank annually does not exceed twice the volume of the tank. Any person claiming this exemption shall be responsible for maintaining records which substantiate this claim and make them available to the director upon request.