[CPEO-MEF] Hearings Scheduled on plan to bury radioactive material in Ka

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Hearings scheduled on plan to bury radioactive material

KAHULUI (AP) ? A public hearing on a federal agency?s plan to bury about 
60,000 cubic yards of radioactive material on Johnston Island will be 
held March 15 at the Kahului Community Center.

An informal ?public availability session? will be from 5 to 6 p.m., and 
a public meeting will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Other hearings have been 
scheduled statewide.

The burial and covering of the contaminated coral and construction 
debris has been proposed as the best of multiple disposal options by the 
Defense Environmental Restoration Program.

Copies of the draft final corrective measures study and the feasibility 
study are available at some public libraries and community centers, 
including the Wailuku Public Library and the Kahului Community Center.

The public comment period ends April 19.

Johnston Atoll, about 700 miles southwest of Honolulu, was the site of 
two aborted nuclear test missile launches in 1962.

The destruction of the missiles left Johnston Island, the largest land 
mass within the atoll, contaminated by plutonium oxide and americium, a 
radioactive breakdown product of plutonium.

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