Lulai 4, 2020
Kakauolelo o na Palena Mark T. Esper
Keʻena Puʻokoʻa
Kakauolelo o ka Navy Richard V. Spencer
Keʻena o ka ʻĀkau
Nora Macariola-ʻIke
ʻO ka ʻĀina ʻĀina Palapala Hoʻoikaika Naval
258 Makalapa Drive, Suite 100
Puuloa, Hawaii 96860-3134
Re: ʻO Mariana Islands Training a me ka hoʻāʻo ʻana i ka Hoʻohui Kūʻai hope EIS / OEIS ʻ Publiclelo Pelekikena
Nā Kūʻai Kūʻai Nui a nā lāua ʻo Esper a me Spencer a me Ms. Macariola-ʻike:
ʻO mākou he pūʻulu hui nui, nā loiloi kaua, nā loiloi, a me nā loea koa kumuhana koa mai ka ʻaoʻao o ka politika politika e kākau nei i ke kākoʻo ikaika o nā loiloi a me nā hopohopo i hōʻike ʻia e kā mākou Common Wealth 670 (a nonpartisan Commonwealth o nā Northern Mariana Islands ( ʻO CNMI) hui kaiaulu kaiaulu) i pane i ka US Navy's Mariana Islands Training and Testing Final Supplemental EIS / OEIS.
Hoʻomaopopo mākou i ka hopohopo maʻamau o kā mākou ʻānela 670 ʻaʻole i hoʻokō ka Navy i nā koi o ke kaʻina hana o ka National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). Hoʻohui mākou i ko mākou Weʻa Kūlana 670 ma ke kākoʻo ʻana no:
1) "ka palekana o ko mākou ʻāina, moana a me ka lewa mai ka ʻalo ʻole ʻia aʻe e kekahi" a me nā hana a pau loa US.
2) ka hoʻopiʻi ʻana o ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻana i hoʻomaikaʻi ʻia, ka hoʻāʻo ʻana, ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻana, a me nā hana ʻē aʻe (ʻo ia hoʻi, ka "ʻaʻohe hana" ʻano) a hiki i ka Navy ke hōʻikeʻike ʻepekema ʻoiai "ʻaʻole i loaʻa a ʻaʻole i hiki i ka wā e hiki mai ana i ka manawa kūpono, kūhelu ʻole a i ʻole kumulāwa. i nā hopena ma ke kai kūʻono ʻo Mariana. ' Hoʻomaopopo mākou he pālahalaha nui loa nā pūʻali koa US a me nā pūʻali koa US i ka wā lōʻihi a kākau ʻia nā moʻolelo o ka hoʻohālikelike ʻana i ka wai, lepo, a me ka ea ma waena o nā moku ʻo Mariana a me ka hōʻino i ka olakino o ka poʻe o ka ʻāina.1
Ua aʻo nui nā lālā o ka Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition (OBRACC) a kākau nui e pili ana i nā kahua kaua US i kēlā me kēia wahi a me kā lākou hopena ma nā kaiāulu a me nā kaiāulu. He nui nā lālā o ko OBRACC loea i mau makahiki. Hoʻopili, ua hoʻopuka mākou i nā helu he nui a me nā hōʻike, ʻewalu mau puke, a me nā mea hoʻolaha hou ma ke kumu o kā mākou noiʻi.
Ke Kūkulu'Āina o ka Mokupuni a me ka Hui Kū'ē
Kākoʻo ʻo OBRACC i ka loiloi o kā mākou Weʻa Kūlana 670 ma ka palapala ʻana i kekahi mau pilikia hilahila, hemahema o ka loiloi ʻana o ka Navy e pili ana i ka hopena o ka piʻi ʻana o ka hana kaua i ka Marianas. Māhuahua nui mākou i kēlā:
1) ʻAʻole i kiko kūpono loa ka Hoʻohui Hou EIS / OEIS i ke ola kino kanaka a me ke ʻano a me ke ʻano hanana kanaka i ke ʻano o ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa Navy a me nā hana hoʻāʻo ma ka Mariana Islands Training and Testing Study Area (MITT). Ma muli loa o mākou e hopohopo nei i nā hopena ola o nā kaiāulu o ka Navy a me nā mea kīlei Navy ma luna o ka poʻe o nā mokupuni ʻo Mariana, ko lākou e hilinaʻi nei i nā holoholona moana i ʻoki ʻia mai kēia mau wai he kumu mālama kumu.
2) ʻO kā mākou mea waiwai maʻamau 670 e kākau nei i ka hiki ʻole o ka Navy e hana i kahi loiloi ʻepekema kūpono e pili ana i ka pilikia o ka hoʻohālikelike ʻia na nā hana Navy ma ka MITT. Kuhi ʻole paha ka Navy no nā noiʻi ʻepekema i hala me ka pane i ko Navy hopena ʻana.
3) Ke lawe aku nei ka Navy i nā hopena i ka hopena o nā hana a ka Navy ma ka hoʻolako ʻana i ka meaʻai, ʻo ka ʻai o nā kai, ʻaʻole i hoʻokumu ʻia ma ka noiʻepekema o kēia pilikia. Nā kuʻuna nane, non-sampling-dive scan e ʻōlelo nei i kumu no ka hopena o ka Navy i loaʻa ʻole nā hopena olakino e holo nei i ka muster e like me ka loaʻa ʻepekema. ʻAʻole ʻike ʻia ka Navy e ka hana noiʻepekema i hoʻopaʻa ʻia e Gary Denton a me nā hoa hana i ʻike hewa ʻia mai nā kahua o nā papa ʻāina i hala iho nei a me nā mea hoʻowahāwahā kaua.2. ^ E Ha yM. E like me ke kuhikuhi ʻana o ko mākou Manoa Kūʻai 670, ʻaʻole hoʻohana ka Navy i ka ʻikepili etnographic maʻalahi i ka ʻike e pili ana i nā kumu ʻai i hoʻohana ʻia e nā poʻe o Maria a me nā mea i hoʻopiha ʻia.
4) ʻO kā mākou mea waiwai maʻamau 670 e kākau nei i ka hiki ʻole o ka Navy e loiloi i ka hopena kumulani o ka hoʻomākaʻi ʻia ʻana o ke Kaua Honua II. Ua hōʻike ʻia nā noiʻi ʻepekema i ka hoʻomau ʻana o ka hōʻino nui o ka pōʻino o ka pōʻaiapuni mai ka Kaua Honua II. Ke ʻōlelo nei ka Navy, ʻaʻohe pilikia koʻikoʻi o ke olakino me ka ʻole e hōʻike i nā ʻike i nā pae a i ʻole nā pae momona a i ʻole ka piʻi e piʻi me nā hana hoʻāʻo a ka Navy e hiki mai ana.
I ka hopena, ke koi hou nei mākou i ka Navy a me ka Pentagon e nānā pono i nā manaʻo o kā mākou Common Wealth 670, e like me ka koi ʻana o ke kaʻina NEPA, a e kāpae i nā hana i hoʻolālā ʻia a hiki i ka Navy ke hōʻike i kāna mau hana ʻaʻole i lilo i ka pololei, a i ʻole , he pōʻino kūpaʻa kumulative ma Marianas Islands.
Loaʻa ko mākou mau lālā i pane i nā nīnau āu e loaʻa ai. E ʻoluʻolu e ʻoluʻolu iā Kauka David Vine ma vine@american.edu a i ʻole 202-885-2923.
me ka manao pono,
Ke Kūkulu'Āina o ka Mokupuni a me ka Hui Kū'ē
ʻO nā pili o nā lālā i kākau ʻia ma lalo nei no nā kumu ʻike.
Medea Benjamin, CoDirector, CODEPINK
Leah Bolger, CDR, US Navy (Ret.), Pelekikena World BEYOND War
Cynthia Enloe, ke Kaukaʻi Kaukaʻi, Ke Kulanui ʻO Clark
ʻO John Feffer ke kuhikuhi o ke Kūʻai Kūʻokoʻa ma ka Pokole
Joseph Gerson, Hope-Hope, International Peace Bureau
ʻO Kate Kizer, Luna Hoʻokele, ua lanakila ʻole me ke kaua
Barry Klein, ka ʻĀina Kūʻai Kūʻokoʻa
ʻO John Lindsay-Poland, mea kākau o Emperors i ke Jungle: ʻO ka Pūnaewele huna a o ka US ma
Panamā (Duke University University Press)
ʻO Catherine Lutz, Polofesa o ka Anthropology a me nā Haʻawina ʻInikua, Ke Kula Nui ʻo Brown
Miriam Pemberton, Associate Fellow, Institute for Studies Studies
ʻO Delbert Spurlock, kākā'ōlelo aʻoaʻo pūʻali koa US 1981-1983; ASA M&A 1983-1989.
David Swanson, Luna Hoʻokele, World BEYOND War
David Vine, ke Komikina o Anthropology, Ke Kulanui ʻAmelika
ʻO Allan Vogel, ke Alakaʻi Kūʻai Kūʻai Kūʻokoʻa
Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Col., ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIaʻAmelika (Ret.) / Luna Nui o nā limahana i Kakauolelo o ka moku'āina ʻo Colin.
ʻO Powell / Luna ʻōlelo Pelekane o ke Aupuni a me nā kulekele lehulehu, Kolepa ʻo William a me Mary
1. E ʻike, e laʻa, ʻo Catherine Lutz, "Nā Pūʻali Koa US ma Guam i ka Manaʻo Honua," The Asia-Pacific Journal, 30-3-10, Iulai 26, 2010, https://apjjf.org/-Catherine-Lutz/ 3389 / article.html; David Vine, Papa Pūʻali Koa: Pehea ʻO ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ʻAmelika ʻAmelika a me nā Ao (Metropolitan Books, 2015), kap. 7; a me ka helu 2.
2. Gary RW Denton, et al., "Hopena o nā hui WWII ma Saipan (CNMI): He kūlana kiʻekiʻe o nā kumu lepo a me nā huaʻumi," Environmental Science and Pollution Research 23 (2016): 11339–11348; Gary RW Denton, et al., He Penikala Puhi Heawe o nā Sediment a me nā Biota i koho ʻia mai nā wahi hoʻomanaʻo ʻana o ʻAmelika ʻAmelika ʻAkia, Saipan, (CNMI), WERI Project Completion Report-Cooperative Ecosystems Unit, 2018; ʻO Gary RW Denton, et al., "Ka hopena o ka lepo lepo i loko o kahi Lagoon Tropical ma ka uʻi ʻana o nā mea hoʻonaʻauao ma nā wahi o ka moana kai kūwaho. ) 25-2009.
