HI SR16

Request the Commander of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to allow the Department of Parks and Recreation of the City and County of Honolulu to temporarily use restricted vacant land on the Pearl City Peninsula for youth ball programs including soccer, baseball, and flag football

Approximately twelve acres of land on the Pearl City Peninsula has remained vacant and restricted from use for three decades following a Fuel Depot Tank Farm Fire in October 1985

The United States Navy used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) fire retardant to extinguish the fire and subsequently closed the tank farm, leaving the land vacant since 1985

The Legislature believes the larger non-contaminated area could accommodate a minimum of three ball fields, while PFAS-contaminated land could be developed into a parking lot

Transmit certified copies of the resolution to the Commander of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu