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    DLA director visits agency disposition, fuel facilities in Hawaii

    DLA director visits agency disposition, fuel facilities in Hawaii

    Photo By Monique Randolph | DLA Director Navy Vice Adm. Mark Harnitchek examines excess military equipment stored...... read more read more

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HI, UNITED STATES

    03.14.2012

    Story by Monique Randolph 

    Defense Logistics Agency   

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Defense Logistics Agency Director Navy Vice Adm. Mark Harnitchek visited DLA disposition and fuel facilities on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 13, as part of a week-long trip to see the agency’s operations in the Pacific theater.

    During his first stop at DLA Disposition Services Pearl Harbor, the director was given a tour of the sprawling 27-acre operation currently located at former Naval Air Station Barbers Point but scheduled to relocate to Pearl Harbor in 2013 due to 1999 Base Realignment and Closure legislation.

    DLA Disposition Services is the last Department of Defense site to vacate the former naval air station, said Dennis Baxter, acting deputy director of DLA Disposition Services Pacific.

    The site processes everything from clothing and furniture to electronics and ship parts, affording every opportunity for eligible property to be reused or sold before disposition, Baxter said.

    “It’s really amazing when we can reutilize the items for military customers, because it keeps [those items] active with the warfighters. Our entire inventory is also posted on our website, so it’s available worldwide,” Baxter said.

    The Army transports much of the material to and from the facility, including items that must be shipped to the mainland to be destroyed, Baxter said. These items, marked “de-manufactured,” are deemed to have no re-utilization or resale value and must be incinerated at a stateside demilitarization center.

    Harnitchek also visited the Navy’s Fleet Logistics Center, where he received a briefing on and a tour of the Red Hill underground fuel storage facility. The facility consists of 20 fuel tanks located hundreds of feet below ground and was constructed between 1940 and 1943 to replace vulnerable above-ground fuel storage tanks that were located around Pearl Harbor.

    “Each tank is 250 feet tall, 100 feet in diameter and holds 12.6 million barrels of oil,” said Scott Hedrick, deputy director of fuel and facility management at U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Pearl Harbor.

    Also essential to fuel operations at FLC Pearl Harbor is the upper tank farm, which consists of six above-ground fuel tanks located a few miles from the Red Hill facility.

    “The upper tank farm provides us the capability to receive and distribute fuel at the same time, but is in need of recapitalization,” Baxter said.

    DLA Energy provides funding for sustainment, restoration and modernization, and military construction projects for FLC Yokosuka, Japan, and Pearl Harbor — including Red Hill — in the Pacific theater.

    Harnitchek’s FLC visit concluded with a driving tour, during which Hedrick showed him some of the military construction improvements that were funded by DLA, including a $5 million upgrade to a pier used to refuel Navy aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor and a $22 million project to replace aging underground piping with new above-ground pipes, Baxter said. The upgrades also included the installation of a new plant that monitors the temperature and measures the amount of fuel piped into the pier, providing more accurate metering and accounting during fueling operations, he said.

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    Date Taken: 03.14.2012
    Date Posted: 03.15.2012 16:43
    Story ID: 85305
    Location: JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HI, US

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