Coming Soon: Pilots, Workshops, and a Consultant for the PUC
The Coast Guard has announced that the area around the offshore moorings at Barber’s Point will become Federal Pilotage waters on May 1, 1991. Details are still being worked out; however, among other things, the requirement will mean that a qualified pilot will be guiding oil tankers into and out of the mooring areas. No longer will tanker captains be essentially on their own the moment departing tankers have safely passed the mooring areas.
The Office of State Planning is getting ready to hold public information workshops on the five-year land district boundary review it has undertaken. No dates are firm as we go to press; however, the OSP is planning on having the workshops begin sometime in March. To learn more, call the Office of State Planning at 548-1710 (O`ahu).
Responding to the request of the People’s Water Conference, the University of Hawai`i Water Resources Research Center and the U.S. Geological Survey will be conducting three workshops — on sustainable yield, the state Water Code, and how to read pumpage figures. The classes will be held February 20, February 27, and March 6, in Room 420, Watanabe Hall, on the University of Hawai`i campus at Manoa. Classes will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. Teaching will be people from the Water Resources Research Center, the Board of Water Supply, and the U.S.G.S. More information is available by calling the U.S.G.S. at 541-2653 (O`ahu).
Hawai`i’s Thousand Friends will have its annual dinner on March 2 at the Kane`ohe Marine Base Officers’ Club. Guest speakers will be Ian Lind, publisher of Hawai`i Monitor, and Patricia Tummons, publisher of Environment Hawai`i. For more information, telephone Hawai`i’s Thousand Friends at 262-0682 (O`ahu).
Roger Ulveling may be gone from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, but he will evidently continue to get a state paycheck for some time. The Public Utilities Commission has evidently hired him as a consultant. When we asked to see a copy of the contract, we were told by the PUC that it was not ready for public review. Stay tuned.
Volume 1, Number 8 February 1991
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