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Tier II reporting requirements in Hawaii

Deadline: 1 March, yearly
Takes our file: Yes
Own thresholds: No — federal
Fee: $200 a facility
Filing route read: 2026-09-11

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How Hawaii takes it

Hawaii takes the Tier2 Submit file, and the $200 fee, through the Department of Health e-Permitting system. Paper is still accepted.

Hawaii charges $200 per facility, paid with the filing through the e-Permitting system. Several facilities in one submittal still pay $200 each.

The file we build is the one this state works from.

The filing is due 1 March each year and covers the calendar year before it. Hawaii does not pass it on for you — we checked. Filing closes the state’s copy only; your local committee and fire department each need their own from you.

Before you send it — what else Hawaii asks for

First-time filers need a Hawaii Tier2 Facility ID before they can submit — ask HEER for one early, not in the last week of February. And the e-Permitting submission only closes the state’s copy: Hawaii names three recipients for the same form, so your local emergency planning committee and the fire department with jurisdiction each need one from you. HEER publishes the LEPC and fire department addresses alongside the Tier II forms. Send a site map with the form — Hawaii asks for facility maps that show where the chemicals are.

Does Hawaii set its own limits?

We have read Hawaii's own code and it uses the federal thresholds. That is a checked answer, not an assumption.

Hawaii runs its own statute (HEPCRA) but keeps the federal numbers, including the retail fuel thresholds and their underground-tank conditions. A $200 filing fee applies to each facility for reporting years 2017 and later, even when several facilities go in one submittal; state facilities must report and may pay by journal voucher, and Department of Defense facilities report but are exempt from the fee. On a specific request from the SERC, LEPC or fire department the threshold drops to zero.

The words we read

Hawaii Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response (HEER), HEPCRA Tier II submittal page: reporting covers “hazardous substances, except for extremely hazardous substances, present at the facility in amounts not less than 10,000 pounds; All extremely hazardous substances (EHSs), in amounts not less than 500 pounds, or the threshold planning quantity (TPQ), whichever is less,” with retail gas station thresholds of 75,000 gallons of gasoline and 100,000 gallons of diesel where the tanks were entirely underground and UST-compliant. “The minimum threshold for reporting in response to requests for submission of a material safety data sheet or a tier II form from the SERC, LEPC, or Fire Department having jurisdiction over the facility shall be zero.” Haw. Code R. § 11-453-25, read 2026-09-07, says the same: hazardous substances at “10,000 pounds”; extremely hazardous substances at “500 pounds, or the threshold planning quantity for that substance, whichever is less” (40 CFR Part 355, Appendices A or B); gasoline in compliant underground tanks at retail stations at “75,000 gallons” and diesel at “100,000 gallons”; all other hazardous chemicals at “10,000 pounds (or 4,540 kgs.)”; and, where the commission, committee or fire department asks for a sheet or a Tier II form, a threshold that “shall be zero.” The department’s guidance and the rule agree.

Haw. Code R. § 11-453-25 (HEPCRA rule under HRS ch. 128E), ch. 11-453 effective 2010-11-05 (read 2026-09-07)

Where we read this

Hawaii Department of Health, HEER Office — “Submit a HEPCRA Tier II Report” and the e-Permitting instructions (health.hawaii.gov/heer), read 2026-09-06 and 2026-09-11: “Electronic versions (.pdf and .t2s) from the Tier2Submit program and payment may be submitted online through the HI DOH ePermitting System. Although electronic submissions are preferred, a hard copy of your Tier II information will be accepted as in the past.” On who gets copies: “The HCI/Tier 2 Form shall be submitted annually to the HEER Office / your LEPC / the Fire Department having jurisdiction over the facility.” The same page carries a “LEPC and Fire Dept.” contact sheet. Thresholds and the March 1 date come from the HEER “Hazardous Substance Inventory Guideline”, Rev. 11/24.The fee is printed on the form Hawaii publishes for this filing: the state’s Tier II form for reporting year 2025 (health.hawaii.gov/heer/files/2026/01/ATTACH-4-A-1-Tier-II-Blank-Form-2025.pdf), read 2026-09-11, is headed “$200.00 FILING FEE PER FACILITY — STATE OF HAWAII”. The fee sits in statute at HRS §128E-9 and in rule at HAR §11-453-32; the HEER office says military facilities are exempt and that the money goes to the county local emergency planning committees. We read the state’s form and its agency pages, not the statute text itself.Hawaii DOH HEER, “Submit a HEPCRA Tier II Report”, read 2026-10-12, lists under information to provide: “Hawaiʻi Chemical Inventory Form (HCIF)/Tier II and Site Map”. HEER Hazardous Substance Inventory Guideline (Attach-2-A, health.hawaii.gov/heer/files/2026/01): the submission “must include the following: … 3) Facility maps indicating chemical locations.”Checked 2026-09-11
Hawaii Department of Health, Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response (HEER), HEPCRA Tier II submittal page: reporting covers “hazardous substances, except for extremely hazardous substances, present at the facility in amounts not less than 10,000 pounds; All extremely hazardous substances (EHSs), in amounts not less than 500 pounds, or the threshold planning quantity (TPQ), whichever is less,” with retail gas station thresholds of 75,000 gallons of gasoline and 100,000 gallons of diesel where the tanks were entirely underground and UST-compliant. “The minimum threshold for reporting in response to requests for submission of a material safety data sheet or a tier II form from the SERC, LEPC, or Fire Department having jurisdiction over the facility shall be zero.”Haw. Code R. § 11-453-25, read 2026-09-07, says the same: hazardous substances at “10,000 pounds”; extremely hazardous substances at “500 pounds, or the threshold planning quantity for that substance, whichever is less” (40 CFR Part 355, Appendices A or B); gasoline in compliant underground tanks at retail stations at “75,000 gallons” and diesel at “100,000 gallons”; all other hazardous chemicals at “10,000 pounds (or 4,540 kgs.)”; and, where the commission, committee or fire department asks for a sheet or a Tier II form, a threshold that “shall be zero.” The department’s guidance and the rule agree.The state’s own code · Haw. Code R. § 11-453-25 (HEPCRA rule under HRS ch. 128E), ch. 11-453 effective 2010-11-05 (read 2026-09-07)
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