Bill Text: HI SCR142 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging The United States Armed Forces, Governor, And Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Work Together To Facilitate The Clean Up And Return Of Additional Military Lands.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-15 - Referred to PSM. [SCR142 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2023-SCR142-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	142
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

URGING THE UNITED STATES armed forces, GOVERNOR, AND HAWAII'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO WORK TOGETHER TO FACILITATE THE CLEAN UP AND RETURN OF ADDITIONAL MILITARY LANDS.

 

 

     WHEREAS, many properties in the State are under federal control and are used, or have been used, as military facilities; and

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Armed Forces' use of the land has caused extensive environmental damage, including water and soil contamination; and

 

     WHEREAS, in January 2023, the United States Air Force returned to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands three hundred sixty-three acres of land that the military formerly leased on the island of Molokai; and

 

     WHEREAS, in preparing to return the land, the United States Air Force carried out "an exhaustive and comprehensive" environmental clean up process approved by the Department of Health and Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; and

 

     WHEREAS, the returned land may offer opportunities for Native Hawaiians on the waitlist to receive homestead leases from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Governor has expressed interest in identifying additional lands that the military can return to the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, the return of additional military lands would provide opportunities for environmental clean up, help the State address the extensive waitlist for homestead leases, and allow the State to undertake conservation efforts on the lands; and

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Armed Forces' sixty-five year leases on more than thirty thousand acres of state land will expire in August 2029; now, therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2023, the House of Representatives concurring, that the United States Armed Forces, Governor, and Hawaii's congressional delegation are urged to work together to facilitate the clean up and return of additional military lands, especially lands with expiring leases; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Secretary of Defense, members of Hawaii's congressional delegation, United States Army Pacific Commanding General, United State Navy Pacific Fleet Commander, United States Pacific Air Forces Commander, United State Marine Corps Forces Pacific Commander, United States Coast Guard District Fourteen Commander, Governor, and Chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

United States Military; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands