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Instead of starting next week, the Army may have to wait a year or more to start work on a new Stryker Battle Area Complex (BAX) at Schofield Barracks in Hawai’i, while the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviews a 12-inch stack of Army plans for cleaning up depleted uranium (DU) contamination in the area.

NRC is also reviewing whether the Army had NRC approval for several actions: possessing DU spotting rounds for a few years in Hawai’i in the 1960s, doing a 2008 controlled burn in DU areas at Schofield, and removing DU from Hawai’i ranges recently and transporting it elsewhere.

This came to light in an NRC conference call today with the Army, the Army Corps of Engineers, DU and contractor Cabrera Services. Listening in were Joan Conrow of Honolulu Civil Beat e-news, plus geologist Mike Reimer and resident Cory Harden of Hawai’i Island.

The Army says a year of NRC review might be “overkill for doses of this magnitude”.

NRC lawyer Brett Klukan asked why the Army said earlier that a “100%” survey of Hawai’i DU ranges was not possible, but now plan to do such a survey for the BAX area. The Army said the cost would be high and some gullies were not safe to enter.

Klukan said if the Army begins BAX work as planned on November 6, with a controlled burn on DU areas at Schofield, that may be considered a willful legal violation.


Cory Harden
PO Box 10265
Hilo, Hawai'i 96721
mh@interpac.net
808-968-8965

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  • Well babe, according to Cory Hayden I should not have been there to represent Oahu, and according to Isaac, I was a total embarrassment to the Hawaiian culture. Cory used 504 Disability Act to undermine the hearing and in my mind was successful in creating an impossible environment to support the arguments.

    Keep in mind Mike Reimer is a geologist and the DU contaminates were transfered to Makua to create a bogus fire lane that can be seen from an aerial photo that depicted black top. But in actuality it was just sprayed black. It's all legal according to there rules that so long as the contaminats are on the surface. Do you remember the military person representing the Pentagon--He said, "the contaminants were construction debrie material? He could barely lie for the Pentagon with a straight face. It's all according to NRC's rules. NRC came to Hawaii had a public community meeting in Wahiawa and negotiated to have the DU contaminat soil removed from Schofield. With grave detriment to children in Waianae that are at the affect of poison dust.

    This transfer was due to Tad Davis from the Pentagon, and approved by the NRC which is how I got on board. It was CYA for them to bring me on board. While sitting in the room on Jan 13, 2010 at Hilo University, the NRC person told me not to mention the procurement general contractor's name. At that moment I walked out to you to share what had just gone down. He did not want me to complain about the dump site behind my house.

    Regardless, I knew before it was over, my case was weak because the people of Wahiawa cracked a political deal to remove the contaminats so that the military families would be safe from it's own contaminats of DU. It was Tad Davis that created that notion in his 2050 Sustainable Plus Plans to go green. It's called bunkering. Eventhough, the DU was transfered to a civilian community, however, if suddenly the military owns all of Waianae then it's legal, and we the people or specifically our children are just military (Former President Clinton's) collateral damage statistics. Remember, I flunked stat's twice.

    Recently, at UH Manoa, I tried to convince Dr. Emmett Aluli that the AEC determined by a judge's gravel that DU in Hawaii is low, safe and weak. And that we both knew, it will/have cause(d) a high rate of birth defects, but what the hell who cares!

    The AEC during a Rim Pack in 1965 exercise on "O Kanaloa Kohe Malamalma Kahoolawe' used the following contaminats: Amatex, Amatol, Ammonal, Baratol, Composition B, Composition H6, Cyclotol, Ednatol, Hexanite, Minol, Octol, Pentolite, Picratol, Tetrytol, Torpex, and Tritonal

    To blast a giant hole on Kahoolawe--500 tons of TNT (20 x 40 feet) awaiting detonation at Operation Sailor Hat. The blast; the shockwave is visible on the water and a condensation cloud is visible above the fireball.Operation Sailor Hat was an explosives effects test conducted by the US Navy at Kaho'olawe that cracked the cap rock and leaked into the ground and near shore.

    About Civil Beat, the owner of such a web site (I thought it was Street Beat for houseless newspaper) had Ikaika remove Jon Osario's article from Maoliworld Forum.


    "...with a controlled burn on DU areas at Schofield, that may be considered a willful legal violation."

    Too bad, this must have pissed off the Big Island complainers. But, I'm being creepy given the times. I trust Jim Albertini to do right by all people in Hawaii. He is a good person!!!! I trust him!!!!

    Love you
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