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LEPC MEETING MINUTES
CIVIL DEFENSE
May 21, 2014 10:00am
Members Present: Henry Silva, Chairperson; Gerald Kosaki, Vice-Chairperson; Newton
Inouye, DOH; John Peard, DOH HEER; David Cummings, Hamakua Energy; Lucas
Parrish, BEI; Cliff Townsend, PGV; Ron Quesada, PGV; James O’Connor, HPD; Lance
Uchida, HFD EMS. Non-Members: Keoki Wells, PGV; Sharon Leonida, DOH HEER;
Abel Costa, PGV; Orasa Fernandez, DOH; Jarrett Enriquez, BEI; Joseph Kashuba, Big
Island Biodiesel
I.Call to Order – 10:06 am by Chair Henry Silva
II.Approval of minutes from February 6, 2014 meeting – No objections to
minutes, minutes accepted and adopted
III.Tier II project report – John Peard gave an update to the status of tier II
reporting. We discussed distributing pamphlets created by DOH HEER with
information to increase awareness of reporting requirements to DPW,
Planning, Tax office, etc.
IV.School labs and chemicals update – Orasa Fernandez from DOH was present
to discuss the statewide clean up of chemicals in the schools. Henry said that
they had contacted Senator Josh Green who is the Senate Health Chair.
HSERC has assigned a sub-committee to ask for the appropriation of more
funding to conduct school clean up. A conference call was scheduled with
Senator Green to discuss how they should proceed with their request.
V.County reports:
Civil Defense – No report
Fire – HFD Hazmat will be conducting an Area Rae deployment drill on
June 26 to identify specific locations to deploy the Area Rae monitors in
the event of a chemical release incident at PGV.
Police – no report given
VI.Industry partners reports –
PGV – Ron Quesada discussed their EPA report that cited 14 violations of
which they will need to respond to. However, there were some
discrepancies identified with these violations.
BEI – Lucas Parrish gave a report of the recent incident at BEI when there
was a Sulfuric Acid spill from a tote container. Rain was a factor as the
acid went into a dry well. They used soda ash to help neutralize the acid
and monitored the area. Gerald Kosaki brought up some concerns
received from HFD dispatch and EMS units. Lucas stated that as a result
of this incident and concerns, some new procedures have been
implemented.
Big Island Biodiesel – Joseph Kashuba from BI biodiesel attended the
meeting and sill be soon identified as a committee member. He is
currently developing some safety plans for the company.
VII.Department of Health HEER report – John Peard reported that they are doing
some stream sampling around the agriculture area. He stated that they are
doing some contamination Awareness class. Some of the sites that they are
testing are Hamakua/Hakalau, Kohala, and the Waiakea pond (testing for
Arsenic).
VIII.Announcements – Henry spoke about the NASTTPO conference and some of
the changes are to the HMEP grant funding requirements.
Henry announced that he may stay on as Chairman a little longer to follow
through on the school clean up project. He made a request to the LEPC to
identify Gerald Kosaki as a co-Chair with him. This would allow for a
distribution of overall duties and also for a smoother transition when he
decides to leave. Members present were in agreement and in favor of this
request.
Tesoro Corporation had a name change to Hawaii Independent Energy LLC
IX.Next meeting - The next LEPC meeting will be held on August 28, 2014 at the
Department of Health conference room. The date and venue was changed due
to the recent incidents requiring civil defense involvement.
X.Adjournment – the meeting was adjourned at 11:50am.