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online. I am funded by grants from the EPA as well as Department of Defense for the kind of <br />work we do so I’m not necessarily part of the Governor’s legislation and budget concerns so <br />during COVID when the former governor says “We’re gonna cut back on state employees’ hours <br />and furloughs,” I would not have been in that situation. However, like any poorly run state <br />agency we are well understaffed. Our staff of 12 in my office a few years ago was down to 3 for <br />over 2 years. The volume of work didn’t change it just means that those of us now become <br />camels with bigger loads stacked up on top of us and it just takes longer for people to get their <br />projects to our office. <br /> <br />LT: E, aloha, Leomana, District – 3, I just wanted to say thank you for this. My family – I grew up <br />around the Island and we go down there, and we camp down there, and my family grew up <br />down there – I take my kids in the big tunnels and the lava tubes and up the river so… I just <br />wanted to say mahalo. <br /> <br />TG: So in addition to this project, things I deal with – I work closely with Department of Education <br />and we study water fixtures at all the schools where keiki fill up their hydro-flasks every day to <br />make sure that they don’t have lead as well as, you know, you know \[sounds like tramatesizes\] <br />are an important part of our construction industry here in Hawaii and we’re concerned that a lot <br />of the buildings get arsenic sprayed around the perimeter in the 50s when these buildings were <br />built so we’ll go around and measure and check soil around the outside of a lot of the <br />classrooms. We’re not really concerned about open areas and fields where kids play but we’re <br />more concerned about the uptake again because they’ll be standing in line – dropping things, <br />picking things up then hand them out. So, I work with a variety of different entities and <br />something if you’ve got a notepad handy you can write down the word IHER – I-H-E-R – that is a <br />public access database. It has a viewer map for the entire State of Hawaii, and you can go zoom <br />in on these colored dots and pretty much open any one that you want within your district or in <br />your county and see what these colored dots are for areas that we’ve managed, overseen, and <br />cleaned up in the past. Obviously, you’ll see a lot of colored dots where all the petroleum <br />terminals are because they have a tendency to spill things but you’ll also find mixing sites for the <br />former sugar cane industry where they mixed herbicides and, treated roots with arsenic before <br />they would plant and things – I – we have a legacy of historically crapping in our own backyard. <br />My job is to try and help people to make sure that that gets cleaned up property going forward. <br /> <br />SW: I’m sorry, Mr. Gilmore, this is Deputy Corporation Counsel Sylvia Wan. Can you please repeat <br />what you just said as far as the acronym for this site - what does that stand for? <br /> <br />TG: Ah, our database… <br /> <br />SW: Yeah, the database. <br /> <br />TG: ….is, we call it IHER and it’s the letter I H E R. It’s available to the public. It has a really nice <br />viewer – it’s a little slow so if your bandwidth is good it will work better. <br /> <br />SW: And that’s located where? On the Department of Health website? <br /> <br />TG: It’s on the Department of Health website and if you just go Google IHER it will take you right to <br />it. <br /> <br />15 <br /> <br /> <br />