The water quality standards currently in effect were adopted on August 31, 2004:
Amendment
and Compilation of Chapter 11-54, August 31, 2004. (62 pages)
There are currently three (3) sets of revisions to the Water Quality Standards in progress.
Please contact Linda Koch or David Penn at (808) 586-4337 for additional information.
A public hearing on the first two sets was held Monday, April 27, 2009. The public comment deadline
for these two sets ended 4:30 P.M., April 27, 2007. Links to the public review documents for each set are
provided below.
The first set of revisions (Docket No. R-1-09) was approved by the Governor on June 05, 2009, and was submitted to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for review and approval on July 10, 2009.
Docket No. R-1-09
Docket No. R-2-09
Hearings on the third set of revisions took place in the 2009 State Legislature.
Measures that passed the 2009 Regular Session of the Hawaii State Legislature
include SB1008 Relating to Water Quality Standards.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/SB1008_HD2_.htm
Governor Lingle signed this bill into law as Act 126 on June 16, 2009. The specific water quality
standards prescribed in this Act shall take effect upon their approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, and this Act shall be repealed on June 30, 2011.
Revisions proposed in 2005 did not go to public hearing and were not adopted. However, portions of the Executive Summary
and Rationale documents produced during the revisions process are applicable to proposed changes to the bacterial indicator
criteria as found in the first and third sets of the current revisions:
Executive Summary - (Please read first)
Rationale Document
