Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 28, Number 1, 1 January 2011 — HOʻOLAHA LEHUEHU PUBLIC NOTICE [ARTICLE]

HOʻOLAHA LEHUEHU PUBLIC NOTICE

FEDERAL AND STATE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESSES TO BEGIN FOR THE HAWAPI INTERISLAND RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT - WIND (HIREP) For the proposed Hawai'i Interisland Renewable Energy Project-Wind(HIREP),Depait- / ment of Business Eeonomie Development and Tourism (DBEDT) will be preparing a joint programmatic envkonmental impact statement (PEIS) under the Federal National Envii-onmental Policy Act and an envii-onmental impact statement (EIS) under the State Hawai'i Environmental Policy Act (Chapter 343). The EA/EIS Preparation Notice was published in the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC) on December 8, 2010 and the Notice of Intent to Prepare the EIS will be published in the Federal Register shortly thereafter. The HIREP Wind PEIS will

evaluate the environmental impacts associated with a proposed windenergy generation, transmission, and deliveiy program. The program would produce renewable energy through the use of wind turbine technology

on one or more Hawaiian Islands and transfer the electricity generated to another island or islands by means of one or more undersea cables for subsequent transmission and distribution to energy consumers. Implementation of the proposed wind energy program would be a cooperative effoit of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the State of Hawai'i, represented by DBEDT, to advance the objectives of the Hawai'i Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI), a paitnership between the State of Hawai'i and DOE with a goal of instituting a fundamental and

sustained transfoimation in the way in whieh renewable energy resom-ces are planned and used in the state. The formal notices of intent to prepare the PEIS and EA/EIS contain additional details on the project. The

pubiic scoping meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, Februaiy 1 on O'ahu at McKinley High School, 1039 South King Street, Honolulu, at 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Febmaiy 2 on Maui

at Pomaika'i Elementaiy School, 4650 South Kamehameha Avenue, Kahului at 5:30 p.m.; Thursday, Febmaiy 3 on Moloka'i at Mitchell Pauole Community Center, 90 Ainoa Street, Kaunakakai at 5:30 p.m„ and Saturday, Febmaiy 5 on Lāna'i at Lāna'i High & Elementaiy School, 555 Fraser Avenue, Lāna'i City at 9:30 a.m. Scoping meeting schedules and information will also be posted at www.hkep- wind.com. For additional infoimation, please eall Allen Kam (808) 587-9023 or email at hirep@dbedt.hawaii.gov. I

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