HR 122 Summary

• Requests the Department of Transportation designate the Reef Runway at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport as the Frank T. Okimoto Reef Runway.

• The Reef Runway was constructed in 1977 on coral reef adjacent to Honolulu International Airport at a cost of $89,000,000 to reduce aircraft noise over Honolulu.

• Frank T. Okimoto served as the Project Engineer for the Reef Runway and worked as an airports civil engineer from 1967 until his death in 1978; he was a Roosevelt High School and University of Hawaii at Manoa graduate.

• The runway received two major engineering awards: one of the Ten Outstanding Engineering Achievements Awards in the United States in 1977 from the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Environment Award.

• Requests that the Department of Transportation erect and maintain appropriate signage for the Frank T. Okimoto Reef Runway and transmit certified copies of the resolution to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Director of Transportation.