| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:10:37 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Hawaii judge orders UXO cleanup plan for Army training range on Big Island" |
Hawaii judge orders UXO cleanup plan for Army training range on Big Island By WYATT OLSON STARS AND STRIPES April 4, 2018 FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii - A Hawaii judge has ordered state officials to submit a plan within eight months for monitoring and inspecting ordnance cleanup at the Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii Island. The plaintiffs in the case said the Army had breached its lease obligations by not cleaning up unexploded ordnance at PTA. The 100,000-acre training area is one of the few the military has available for land-based live-fire drills in the Pacific. The military leases about 23,000 acres of state land as part of the training area. That lease, which began in 1964 for a total price of $1, expires in 2029. … For the entire article, see https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/hawaii-judge-orders-uxo-cleanup-plan-for-army-training-range-on-big-island-1.520491 -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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