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LEPC MEETING MINUTES HAWAII COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE May 23, 2013, 10:00am Members Present: Henry Silva, Chairperson; Gerald Kosaki, Vice-Chairperson; Reyn Cabarloc for Tracy Aruga, Hilo Medical Center; Newton Inouye, DOH; Michel Uchida, HFD Hazmat; John Peard, DOH HEER; Darryl Oliveira, Hawaii County CD; John Jack Roney, Civilian Representative; David Cummings, Hamakua Energy; Russell Moore, DOT Harbors; James O’Connor, HPD; Ron Quesada, PGV; Cliff Townsend, PGV; Lauer, Geoffrey, BEI Hawaii; Non-Members: Harold Lau, DOH HEER; Sharon Leonida, DOH HEER I. Call to Order – 10:06am by Chair Henry Silva II. Approval of minutes from February 14, 2013 meeting – No objections to minutes, minutes adopted III. Tier II project report – John Peard reported that Tier II ad was put in the Hawaii Tribune Herald and West Hawaii Today. Denise Laitinen, who is very knowledgeable with Social Media, gave us an overview of how social media can assist us to get the word out about Tier II reporting. We discussed the possibility of creating a committee to look into this possibility. IV. School labs and chemicals update – addition to school inspection form. Henry Silva stated that we are in the process of performing inspections at the schools for hazmat chemicals. He suggested that we could possibly have the HFD hazmat team assist with this and do a radiological sweep of the schools. He also mentioned that there was at least one case on the mainland that radiological substances were found while performing these inspections. Darryl Oliveira stated that he would assist to facilitate if something is found in the schools. A suggestion was made to create a committee to help address this issue. Travis Hiramoto is assisting with the forms that we may be able to use for these inspections. EPA also recognizes the need for school clean up. V. County reports:  Civil Defense – CD-1 Darryl Oliveira stated that we have partnered with PGV officials to create a response guideline to incidents at their facility. There was an incident that occurred on 3/13/13 at the PGV facility. An AAR was done and some recommendations and changes were made. We are currently using EPA exposure guidelines for our actions taken. We are also looking into increasing our modeling capabilities. Other recommended changes were to call 911 instead of the non-emergency line. Darryl also informed us that hurricane season is upon us and that they just had completed an exercise, Makani Pahili, to evaluate our response capabilities.