Section 11-55-27 - Renewal of NPDES permits(a) The director shall review applications for reissuance of NPDES permits. Any permittee who wishes to continue to discharge after the expiration date of the permittee's NPOES permit shall submit for renewal of the permit at least three hundred sixty days prior to its expiration.(b) The scope and manner of any review of an application for renewal of an NPDES permit shall be within the discretion of the director and shall be sufficiently detailed as to ensure the following: (1) The permittee is in compliance with or has substantially complied with all the terms, conditions, requirements, and schedules of compliance of the current or expired NPOES permit;(2) That the director has current information on the permittee's production levels; permittee's waste treatment practices; nature, contents, and frequency of permittee's discharge through the submission of new forms and applications or from monitoring records and reports submitted to the director by the permittee; and(3) That the discharge is consistent with applicable effluent standards and limitations, water quality standards, and other legally applicable requirements, including any additions to, revisions, or modifications of the effluent standards and limitations, water quality standards, or other legally applicable requirements during the term of the permit. (c) The director shall follow the notice and public participation procedures specified in this chapter in connection with each request for reissuance of an NPDES permit.(d) Notwithstanding any other provision in this section, any point source, the construction of which began after October 18, 1972 and which is constructed to meet all applicable new source performance standards, shall not be subject to any more stringent new source performance standard, except as specified in 40 CFR § 122.29(d)(2), for the earliest ending of the following period: (1) A ten-year period beginning on the date of completion of the construction;(2) A ten-year period from the date the source begins to discharge process or other non-construction related wastewater; or(3) During the period of depreciation or amortization of the facility for the purposes of Section 167 or 169 or both of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, whichever period ends first.(e) Application for renewal of an NPDES permit shall comply with section 11-55-04. [Eff 11/27/81; am and comp 10/29/92; Eff 09/23/96; am and comp 09/22/97; comp 01/06/01; am and comp 11/07/02; comp 08/01/05; comp 10/22/07; comp JUN 15 2009] (Auth: HRS §§ 342D-4, 342D-5, 342D-6; 33 U.S.C. §§1251, 1342, 1370 ) (Imp: HRS §§ 342D-2, 342D-4, 342D-5, 342D-6; 33 U.S.C. §§1251, 1342, 1370, 1251-1387; 40 CFR Parts 122; 123; 124, Subparts A and D; 125; §§122.21(d), 122.29, 122.41(b), 122.41(1), 122.44, 123.25(a))Comp 10/21/12; Comp 12/6/13; Comp 11/15/14; Comp 7/13/2018