Rep. Case calls for Jones Act waiver for Red Hill defueling

TL;DR - U.S. Rep. Ed Case is urging the Biden administration to grant Hawaii a Jones Act waiver to aid in the defueling of the Navy’s underground Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility.

Case, D-Hawaii, wrote in a letter dated Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that “the current plan will require ten bulk petroleum tankers to ship the fuel from a pier at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-­Hickam to various points, ranging in distance from ten miles away at Kalaeloa to various replacement storage sites thousands of miles overseas … Under existing law, these tanker movements for the simple transport of fuel ten miles from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to Kalaeloa are subject to Jones Act requirements.”

April 19, 2023: Rep. Case calls for Jones Act waiver for Red Hill defueling, Honolulu Star-Advertiser