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On the recordMay 31, 2022
OHA affirms its concerns, shared by our beneficiaries and communities, and thanks you, Chairman Schatz, for your swift actions to appropriate funding to defuel and close the tanks.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii
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Acknowledgment of Schatz's efforts to fund the defueling of the Red Hill tanks.

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