[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, ENERGY: "Funding for Kahoolawe [HI] commission running out"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Funding for Kahoolawe commission running out


By Ben Gutierrez
Hawaii News Now
June 14, 2013

WAILUKU, MAUI () - The Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission has  
approved a $2.9 million dollar budget for the coming fiscal year. But  
the money is coming from a trust fund that's quickly running dry.

Kahoolawe had been used for military exercises for more than 50  
years. A $44 million trust fund was established when the federal  
government returned the island to the state, with the money going to  
the clean unexploded ordnance from the island, and for the  
commission's work.

"Manage the island, to continue the restoration work on the island,  
to bring people to Kahoolawe to experience Kahoolawe," said  
commission executive director Michael Naho'opi'i. "We feel this  
(budget) is as low as we can go and still accomplish all those tasks."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/22589705/funding-for-kahoolawe- 
commission-running-out

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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