For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Best Management Practices or BMPs. Structural devices or nonstructural practices employed at construction sites that are designed to contain stormwater on-site and prevent the discharge of pollutants from entering any drainage facility or any State waters or to redirect storm runoff flow. BMPs may include a schedule of activities, the prohibition of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to accomplish the same.
Chief Engineer. The director and chief engineer of the department of facility maintenance, City and County of Honolulu, or such person’s duly authorized representative.
Conservation Program. A document submitted by a land user containing information for the conservation of soil, water, vegetation, and other applicable natural resources for an area of land currently being implemented and maintained.
Director. The director of planning and permitting or the director’s duly authorized representative.
Earth Material. Any one or more of the following: rock, coral, sand, gravel, soil or fill, or any combination thereof.
Engineer. A person duly registered as a professional engineer in the State of Hawaii.
Engineer’s Soils Report. A report on soils conditions prepared by an engineer qualified in the practice of soils mechanics and foundations engineering.
Engineering Slope Hazard Report. A report that uses the application of engineering and geologic knowledge and principles in the investigation, evaluation, and mitigation of hazards posed by potential rock, soil, or other slope movement.
Erosion. Wearing away of the ground surface as a result of action by wind or water, or both.
Excavation or Cut. Any act by which earth material is cut into, dug, or moved, and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom.
Fill. Any act by which earth materials are placed or deposited by artificial means, and shall include the resulting deposit of earth material.
Grading. Any excavation or fill or any combination thereof.
Grubbing. Any act by which vegetation, including tree, timber, shrubbery, and plant, is dislodged or uprooted from the surface of the ground.
Maximum Extent Practicable or MEP. Economically achievable measures for the control of the addition of pollutants from existing and new categories and classes of nonpoint sources of pollution, which reflect the greatest degree of pollutant reduction achievable through the application of the best available nonpoint pollution control practices, technologies, processes, siting criteria, operating methods, or other alternatives.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit or NPDES Permit. The permit issued to a permittee pursuant to 40 CFR Part 122, Subpart B, § 122.26(a)(1)(ii), for construction activity including clearing, grading, and excavation activities; or a permit issued to a permittee pursuant to Hawaii Administrative Rules, Chapter 11-55, “Water Pollution Control” for construction dewatering activity; or a permit issued to the city pursuant to 40 CFR Part 122, Subpart B, § 122.26(a)(1)(iii), for stormwater discharges from the city’s separate storm sewer systems.
Permittee. The person or party to whom the permit is issued and shall be the owner or developer of the property whether it is a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity responsible for the work.
Soil and Water Conservation Districts. The legal subdivisions of the State of Hawaii authorized under HRS Chapter 180.
State Waters. Has the same meaning as defined in HRS § 342D-1.
Stockpiling. The temporary open storage of earth materials in excess of 100 cubic yards upon any premises except the premises upon which a grading permit has been issued for the purpose of using the material as fill material at some other premises at a future time.
Surveyor. A person duly registered as a professional land surveyor in the State of Hawaii.
Wetland. Has the same meaning as defined in Chapter 25.
(Sec. 23-1.3, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 14, Art. 13, § 14-13.3) (Am. Ords. 92-122, 96-34, 04-27, 17-28)