[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATIVE PEOPLES: Makua Military Reservation (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The mosquito's coast
Is the Army committed to changing its tune in Makua, or is it just 
paying lip-service?

Catherine Black
Honolulu Weekly
January 6, 2010

The Waianae non-profit organization's original demand was that the Army 
conduct an Environmental Impact Statement, after a series of fires set 
off by its live-fire training exercises burned thousands of acres of 
environmentally and culturally sensitive land. In a 2001 settlement, the 
Army agreed to do the EIS and has not conducted any live-fire exercises 
(simulations of combat scenarios using "live" munitions) since 2004.

In July of 2009, however, it seemed as though the valley's recovery 
period would end: The Army completed its EIS and issued a Record of 
Decision advocating a return to live-fire training in the valley.

Yet the mosquito bit again: in August, Malama Makua filed a claim 
contending that two studies required by the 2001 settlement were poorly 
conducted and not released for public comment, as mandated. The Army 
requested that the court dismiss this claim, but in November, U.S. 
District Court Judge Susan Oki Mollway denied the Army's request, 
upholding Malama Makua's argument that the studies' methodologies were 
insufficient to test possible contamination threats to subsurface 
archeological remains and marine life.

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For the entire article, see
http://honoluluweekly.com/feature/2010/01/the-mosquitos-coast/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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