The Director of Health has selected the Two-Step General Permit approach to regulate Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (Small MS4s) under the State’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program. The first step of the Two-Step process was the adoption of Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR) Title 11, Chapter 55, Appendix K. The Public Notice of the HCC SWMP is the second step. Both HAR 11-55, Appendix K and the HCC SWMP will be NPDES Permit conditions for the HCC Small MS4 to regulate and impose water pollution control requirements on the discharge of stormwater and certain non-stormwater discharges to receiving State waters, to meet the MS4 Permit standard, and to protect water quality.

The HCC campus is located at 874 Dillingham Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii and is categorized as a regulated "Non-Traditional Small MS4." The main campus occupies over twenty acres in the urban Kalihi-Palama area. Boundaries include Dillingham Boulevard to the front and a mix of adjacent residential and commercial areas, with Kokea Street serving as another major access point. The physical composition includes numerous educational and administrative structures. HCC is primarily a commuter campus and does not provide on-campus student housing.

HCC primarily operates as a public community college focused on technical and occupational education, including Applied Trades program. The urban campus features a mix of buildings, paved service roads, and parking lots, interspersed with a central pedestrian mall and landscaped green areas. This composition supports year-round academic and vocational training activities, which collectively dictate the needs outlined in the campus’s SWMP.

The SWMP was developed to address the requirements of the Small MS4 NPDES Permit and reduce, to the maximum extent practicable, the discharge of pollutants to and from the MS4 to protect the receiving water, Kapalama Drainage Canal.

Kapalama Drainage Canal is classified as Class 2, Inland water. Under HAR 11-54-3, the objective of Class 2, Inland waters is to protect their use for recreational purposes, the support and propagation of aquatic life, agricultural and industrial water supplies, shipping, and navigation. The uses to be protected in this class of waters are all uses compatible with the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife, and with recreation in and on these waters.

For more information or if you have special needs due to disability that will aid you in inspecting and/or commenting on the Public Notice Permit and related information, please contact Mr. Reef Migita, Supervisor of the Engineering Section, CWB, at the above address or (808) 586-4309 (Voice) as soon as possible before the end of the comment period. For those who use a TTY/TDD, please call through Sprint Relay Hawaii, at 1-711 or 1-877-447-5991. If a request for assistance is made after the end of the comment period, the CWB will try to fulfill the request.
However, fulfillment prior to a final determination cannot be guaranteed. Requests submitted as early as possible are more likely to be fulfilled.

All written comments and requests received on time will be considered. If the DOH determines that there is significant public interest, a Public Hearing may be held after at least 30 calendar days of Public Notice.