2011 Hawaii Code
DIVISION 1. GOVERNMENT
TITLE 10. PUBLIC SAFETY AND INTERNAL SECURITY
128D. Environmental Response Law
§128D-2 Environmental response revolving fund; uses.

§128D-2 Environmental response revolving fund; uses. (a) There is created within the state treasury an environmental response revolving fund, which shall consist of moneys appropriated to the fund by the legislature, moneys paid to the fund as a result of departmental compliance proceedings, moneys paid to the fund pursuant to court-ordered awards or judgments, moneys paid to the fund in court-approved or out-of-court settlements, all interest attributable to investment of money deposited in the fund, moneys deposited in the fund from the environmental response, energy, and food security tax pursuant to section 243-3.5, and moneys allotted to the fund from other sources.

(b) Moneys from the fund shall be expended by the department for response actions and preparedness, including removal and remedial actions, consistent with this chapter; provided that the revenues generated by the environmental response, energy, and food security tax deposited into the environmental response revolving fund:

(1) Shall be used:

(A) For oil spill planning, prevention, preparedness, education, research, training, removal, and remediation; and

(B) For direct support for county used oil recycling programs; and

(2) May also be used to support environmental protection and natural resource protection programs, including energy conservation and alternative energy development, and to address concerns related to air quality, global warming, clean water, polluted runoff, solid and hazardous waste, drinking water, and underground storage tanks, including support for the underground storage tank program of the department and funding for the acquisition by the State of a soil remediation site and facility. [L 1988, c 148, pt of §2; am L 1990, c 298, pt of §18; am L 1991, c 157, §8 and c 280, §3; am L 1992, c 259, §2; am L 1993, c 300, §4; am L 1994, c 205, §1; am L 1997, c 260, §2; am L 1998, c 141, §8; am L 2000, c 245, §1; am L 2008, c 208, §4; am L 2010, c 73, §2]

Cross References

Raising the legislative ceiling of the fund, see §128D-4(e).