This 2023 Consent Order will work in live performance with the Hawaii Division of Well being’s (DOH’s) Emergency Order of Could 2022, and the 2015 Administrative Order on Consent signed by DON, DLA, DOH, and EPA. Collectively, the necessities of those orders be sure that the DON could proceed to ship secure consuming water, and the DON and DLA could proceed the progress that they’ve made in planning for defueling and closure, function underneath a transparent framework to handle the impacts of previous petroleum releases from the RHBFSF, and carry out the work safely and expeditiously.
“This Consent Order is a vital instrument to take care of our progress in secure and efficient defueling and closure at Crimson Hill, in addition to the continued enchancment of the consuming water system at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam,” stated Karnig Ohannessian, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Setting and Mission Readiness. “I sit up for our continued collaboration with the Environmental Safety Company to guard human well being and the setting in Hawaii.”
The 2023 Consent Order will terminate when EPA certifies that every one the points of the Consent Order and the accompanying Assertion of Work are full.
