HAR §15-10-11. Set-aside system

(a) In the absence of a federally authorized set-aside system, the governor or a authorized representative, in order to manage an energy shortage within the State, may implement a state set-aside system for any or all of the following petroleum products: motor gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene, propane, and residual fuel oil. (b) A shortage management center (SMC) within the department shall direct prime suppliers to make available to the State each month a percentage, not to exceed five per cent of the total amount of each designated petroleum product which they expect to make available for sale within the State during that month. The SMC shall assign set-aside supplies to meet the emergency and hardship needs of wholesale purchaser-consumers, particularly those in certain priority categories such as police and fire departments, medical and health care, public transportation, etc. Additionally, the set-aside program shall permit the SMC to make assignments of fuel to commercial and priority end- users who customarily purchase fuel from a wholesale purchaser-reseller, through the appropriate supplier, to alleviate hardships, and also through the appropriate suppliers, to alleviate unusual shortage conditions in a shortage area. [Eff FEB 17 1987] (Auth: HRS §125C-23) (Imp: HRS §§125C-22, 125C-23)