EPA official, former Army colonel weigh in on defueling Red Hill

TL;DR - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a work plan for the defueling and closure of the Red Hill fuel storage facility.

EPA Region 9 Director Amy Miller said more than 1,700 people weighed in on the work order expressing concerns over the November 2021 fuel spill and the November 2022 toxic firefighting foam spill.

"We received a lot of comments concerning putting in a defueling deadline. So we changed our order to include a deadline and what that is, is that we're requiring the Navy and DLA — Defense Logistics Agency — to put within their Defueling Plan 2.0 a specific deadline for defueling. And that plan needs to be approved by EPA," Miller said.

June 6, 2023: EPA official, former Army colonel weigh in on defueling Red Hill, Hawaiʻi Public Radio