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<br />LEPC MEETING MINUTES <br />CIVIL DEFENSE <br />May 21, 2014 10:00am <br /> <br />Members Present: Henry Silva, Chairperson; Gerald Kosaki, Vice-Chairperson; Newton <br />Inouye, DOH; John Peard, DOH HEER; David Cummings, Hamakua Energy; Lucas <br />Parrish, BEI; Cliff Townsend, PGV; Ron Quesada, PGV; James O’Connor, HPD; Lance <br />Uchida, HFD EMS. Non-Members: Keoki Wells, PGV; Sharon Leonida, DOH HEER; <br />Abel Costa, PGV; Orasa Fernandez, DOH; Jarrett Enriquez, BEI; Joseph Kashuba, Big <br />Island Biodiesel <br /> <br /> <br />I.Call to Order – 10:06 am by Chair Henry Silva <br /> <br /> <br />II.Approval of minutes from February 6, 2014 meeting – No objections to <br />minutes, minutes accepted and adopted <br /> <br /> <br />III.Tier II project report – John Peard gave an update to the status of tier II <br />reporting. We discussed distributing pamphlets created by DOH HEER with <br />information to increase awareness of reporting requirements to DPW, <br />Planning, Tax office, etc. <br /> <br /> <br />IV.School labs and chemicals update – Orasa Fernandez from DOH was present <br />to discuss the statewide clean up of chemicals in the schools. Henry said that <br />they had contacted Senator Josh Green who is the Senate Health Chair. <br />HSERC has assigned a sub-committee to ask for the appropriation of more <br />funding to conduct school clean up. A conference call was scheduled with <br />Senator Green to discuss how they should proceed with their request. <br /> <br /> <br />V.County reports: <br /> <br /> <br />Civil Defense – No report <br /> <br /> <br />Fire – HFD Hazmat will be conducting an Area Rae deployment drill on <br />June 26 to identify specific locations to deploy the Area Rae monitors in <br />the event of a chemical release incident at PGV. <br /> <br /> <br />Police – no report given <br /> <br /> <br />VI.Industry partners reports – <br /> <br /> <br />PGV – Ron Quesada discussed their EPA report that cited 14 violations of <br />which they will need to respond to. However, there were some <br />discrepancies identified with these violations. <br /> <br /> <br />BEI – Lucas Parrish gave a report of the recent incident at BEI when there <br />was a Sulfuric Acid spill from a tote container. Rain was a factor as the <br />acid went into a dry well. They used soda ash to help neutralize the acid <br />and monitored the area. Gerald Kosaki brought up some concerns <br />received from HFD dispatch and EMS units. Lucas stated that as a result <br />of this incident and concerns, some new procedures have been <br />implemented. <br /> <br />