HRS §342D-36
Treatment of single operational upset
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says that if one equipment or process failure causes several water pollution limits to be exceeded at the same time, it counts as only one violation, not multiple violations.
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The statute, as written — Treatment of single operational upset
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
For the purpose of this part, a single operational upset which leads to simultaneous violations of more than one water pollutant parameter shall be treated as a single violation.
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