Bill Text: HI HR27 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requesting The Department Of Health To Reconvene The Working Group Established Pursuant To House Resolution No. 18, H.d. 1 (2024) To Continue The Efforts To Address Issues Related To Water And Air Contamination And Remediation Arising From The Operation Of The Puuloa Range Training Facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-04 - Offered [HR27 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2025-HR27-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION
Requesting the department of health to reconvene the WORKING GROUP established pursuant to House Resolution No. 18, H.D. 1 (2024) to continue the efforts to ADDRESS ISSUES RELATED TO WATER AND AIR CONTAMINATION AND REMEDIATION ARISING FROM THE OPERATION OF THE PUULOA RANGE TRAINING FACILITY.
WHEREAS, the Puuloa Range Training Facility, located in Ewa Beach on Oahu, is a shooting range that has been used by United States Marine Corps for more than a century; and
WHEREAS, the Ewa Beach community has grown around it, and the training facility now sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, in conducting live-fire exercises, shooters fire into impact berms, including berms that face the ocean and share a coastline with the area's beach parks; and
WHEREAS, lead contamination from shooting ranges can accumulate in the soil and remain there for hundreds of years; and
WHEREAS, in 2022, sampling done by the Surfrider Foundation of soil taken from the beach side of the training facility identified high levels of lead; and
WHEREAS, there is a concern that lead from the soil at the Puuloa Range Training Facility will leach into the ocean, creating a serious risk to marine life in the area; and
WHEREAS, there is further concern that dust from lead-contaminated soil will enter the atmosphere and migrate into residential neighborhoods via air or stormwater; and
WHEREAS, addressing this issue will require input from experts and community stakeholders; and
WHEREAS, House Resolution No. 18, H.D. 1 (2024), requested the convening of a working group to address issues related to water and air contamination and remediation arising from the operation of the Puuloa Range Training Facility; and
WHEREAS, House Resolution No. 18, H.D. 1 (2024), requested that the working group be ceased on June 30, 2025; and
WHEREAS, this body finds that the threat to the health and safety of the residents of the Ewa Beach community constitutes an emergency that requires continued well-thought-out and coordinated action; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirty-third Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2025, that the Department of Health is requested to reconvene the working group established in House Resolution No. 18, H.D. 1 (2024) to continue the efforts to address issues related to water and air contamination and remediation from the operation of the Puuloa Range Training Facility; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the working group be dissolved on June 30, 2027; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Commander of the Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Director of Health, Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Councilmember for District 9 of the City and County of Honolulu, Vice Chair of Ewa Neighborhood Board No. 23, and Executive Director of Kuleana Coral Restoration.
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Puuloa Range Training Facility; Working Group; DOH
