Thank you, Chairman Schatz, for securing funding through the FY 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill to effectively defuel and shut down the Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility.

We need to ensure that federal resources are reaching the communities that need them most.

Because we can only do our best work when we hear directly from the Native communities that we serve.

we thank the Committee and Senator Schatz for championing these bills in the 117th Congress.

We request that this Committee continue its vigilance in providing the necessary oversight to ensure that additional transparency and mandatory input from the Native Hawaiian community is incorporated.

Remediation for contamination on sacred lands by the U.S. military must receive the highest priority given the United States' trust responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

I want us to have a list of problems to troubleshoot on your behalf.

I don't think that it is in their interests to have Congress' intent or President Biden's intent thwarted.

no decisions about us.

I want us to have a list of problems to troubleshoot on your behalf.

Remediation for contamination on sacred lands by the U.S. military must receive the highest priority given the United States' trust responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

We request that this Committee continue its vigilance in providing the necessary oversight to ensure that additional transparency and mandatory input from the Native Hawaiian community is incorporated.