2018-04-25 Meeting Minutes (EMC)

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wet so there are no air emissions or dust. Special waste also includes asbestos and sewage sludge. Commissioner Osborne asked about arsenic runoff from heavy rain, and Chair Bennett asked about the dredged spoils being taken to the landfill and whether it will be put where leachate will be recovered. Director Kucharski said there is a leachate recovery system in place, and it will be tested. Puʻuanahulu is quite dry, so it dessicates pretty quickly. A significant volume of leachate is not anticipated. Special waste that comes in will be covered quickly before it can be lifted and dried. Chair Bennett said that was encouraging. d. Formation of a permitted interaction group. Pursuant to HRS Section 92- 2.5, the Commission proposes to form a permitted interaction group whose members shall investigate how to address implementing the Commission’s resolution approved and adopted by the Commission on March 28, 2018, to adopt a proactive pollution elimination program consistent with Federal NPDES standards and practices. Chair Bennett asked Ms. Wong to give background on the steps needed to form a subcommittee. Ms. Wong explained that a subcommittee and interaction group are the same thing. They do not have public meetings and can be comprised of up to four commissioners. They would have specific investigation duties--in this case, to investigate how to address implementing the EMC’s resolution adopted on March 28, 2018, for a proactive pollution elimination program consistent with Federal NPDES standards and practices. Three steps are needed in order to form the group. At this first meeting, they will form the group. She advised that the scope of the investigation and each member’s authority be defined at this meeting. At the next meeting, they can come back and report to the other commissioners on the findings and recommendations from their investigation. At a final meeting, all the commissioners will deliberate and decide how they want to handle the findings, whether to make recommendations or propose something to the director. Chair Bennett said he was looking at who would be interested in participating with him in the subcommittee. Its purpose would be to see if they can come up with recommendations or guidelines on how the County can be consistent with the goals and objectives of the Clean Water Act relative to all of its activities. The scope would look at what the County is currently doing and proposing to do, and they could make recommendations where appropriate on how the County might upgrade, facilitate, and enhance its operations to be fully consistent with the objectives of the NPDES permit, even if a permit may not be required. Commissioner Fritz asked where they would meet, and Chair Bennett said they would probably mostly talk over the phone and perhaps get physically together near the end to get something written. Commissioner Fritz said he would volunteer. Chair Bennett told Commissioner Gaffney he wanted him on the subcommittee. Commissioner Gaffney asked for more clarification on why they would be doing this in a subcommittee format rather than as a commission. Chair Bennett said it would be cumbersome 10