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HRS §342D-55

Keeping records and checking water quality when required

The state's water pollution director can require certain people to keep records, make reports, install monitoring equipment, sample water or sewage, and provide other information. These requirements must be complete, in a specific form, prepared by a qualified person, and paid for by the person required to do them. This applies to management practices for domestic sewage, sewage sludge, and recycled water.

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The statute, as written — Recordkeeping and monitoring requirements

(a) The director may require the owner or operator of any effluent source, works, system, or plant; any discharger of effluent; the applicant for written authorization under this chapter for such sources or facilities; or any person engaged in management practices to: (1) Establish and maintain records; (2) Make reports and plans that shall cover existing situations and proposed additions, modifications, and alterations; (3) Install, use, and maintain monitoring equipment or methods; (4) Sample effluent, state waters, sewage sludge, and recycled water; and (5) Provide such other information as the department may require. (b) The director may require that information and items required under subsection (a) be complete and detailed, in a prescribed form, made or prepared by a competent person acceptable to the director, and at the expense of the owner, operator, or applicant. (c) Management practices covered in this section are those for domestic sewage, sewage sludge, and recycled water, whether or not such practices cause water pollution.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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