Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 15 - DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM › Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism › Chapter 35 - ETHANOL CONTENT IN GASOLINE › Section 15-35-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly
				  appears in the context:
"Certified" means signed by an authorized company
				  representative and declared to be complete, true, and accurate.
"CIF Honolulu terminal" denotes the quoted sales price of
				  motor fuel, which includes the cost, insurance, excise tax, and freight charges
				  to any terminal in Honolulu, Hawaii.
"Comparable grade" means the grade, based on octane rating,
				  of the finished (blended) fuel. "Regular" refers to gasoline having an octane
				  rating greater than or equal to 85 and less than 88. "Midgrade" refers to
				  gasoline having an octane rating greater than or equal to 88 and less than or
				  equal to 90. "Premium" refers to gasoline having an octane rating greater than
				  90.
"Competitively priced" means fuel-grade ethanol CIF Honolulu
				  terminal for which the wholesale price, minus the value of all applicable
				  federal, state, and county tax credits and exemptions, is not more than the
				  average posted wholesale rack price of unleaded gasoline of comparable grade,
				  as published by the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information
				  Administration in Petroleum Marketing Monthly, Table 31 and available on the
				  Energy Information Administration website, or as otherwise published or posted,
				  as prescribed by the petroleum commissioner.
"Denatured fuel ethanol" means fuel-grade ethanol which
				  meets specification ASTM D 4806, "Standard Specification for Denatured Fuel
				  Ethanol for Blending with Gasoline for Use as Automotive Spark Ignition Engine
				  Fuel" published by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
"Distributor" means and includes:
(1) Every person who refines, manufactures, produces, or
				  compounds spark ignition engine fuel in the State, and sells it at wholesale or
				  to retail dealers;
(2) Every person who imports or causes to be imported into
				  the State or exports or causes to be exported from the State, any spark
				  ignition engine fuel;
(3) Every person who acquires spark ignition engine fuel
				  through exchanges with another distributor; and
(4) Every person who acquires spark ignition engine fuel from
				  a licensed distributor as a wholesaler thereof.
"Gasoline" includes conventional, oxygenated, and
				  reformulated gasolines.
"Person" means any person, firm, association, organization,
				  partnership, business trust, limited liability corporation, corporation, or
				  company. "Person" also includes any city, county, public district or agency,
				  the State or any department or agency thereof, and the United States to the
				  extent authorized by federal law.
"Petroleum commissioner" or "commissioner" is as defined in
				  §
									486J-1, Hawaii
				  Revised Statutes.
"Retail dealer" means and includes a person who purchases
				  liquid fuel from a licensed distributor, and sells the liquid fuel at retail.
				  Only sales of gasoline for consumption or used by the purchaser, and not for
				  resale, are sales at retail.
"Ten per cent ethanol by volume" means a blend of gasoline
				  and ethanol which has an ethanol content, exclusive of denaturants and
				  permitted contaminants, that is not less than 9.2 per cent by volume and not
				  more than 10.0 per cent by volume of the blend as determined by an appropriate
				  United States Environmental Protection Agency or American Society of Testing
				  Materials standard method of analysis of alcohol content in motor
				  fuels.