HAR §15-10-14. Base period

(a) A base period shall be adopted by the SMC and shall be used as a historical benchmark from which the SMC shall evaluate the validity of any application for set-aside assignment. The base period Appendix B (continued) Appendix B, p. 16 for all applicants shall be the twelve month period immediately preceding the official declaration of a shortage by the governor. (b) All fuel made available to applicants shall be assigned, when possible, to the supplier distribution system from which the applicant purchased fuel during the base period (c) Prime suppliers shall be responsible for smoothing out anomalous situations in their customers' base periods, such as a business being closed during a portion of the base period. (d) All applicants for set-aside shall be required to list on each application their base period purchases and the names of their base period prime suppliers or distributors, or both. [Eff FEB 17 1987] (Auth: HRS §125C-23) (Imp: HRS §§125C-22, 125C-23)