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Johnston Atoll cleanup planned

The Environmental Protection Agency has given partial approval of a cleanup and closure plan for the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agency Disposal System facility, allowing the Army to incinerate waste created by taking apart and cleaning up the facility.

A request for modification of the permit was sent to the EPA on July 26, 2000. Other parts of the closure plan are still being developed.

More detailed information about the Johnston Atoll facility and closure plans can be found at the University of Hawai'i, Hamilton Library; the Kahului Library, Kahului, Maui; the Hilo Public Library, Hilo, Hawai'i; the Lihue Public Library, Lihue, Kaua'i; and the U.S. EPA, Region IX, Pacific Islands Contact Office, Honolulu (contact: Vicky Tsuhako, 541-2710).

Tripler chief given award

Lawrence P.A. Burgess, Tripler Army Medical Center's Chief of Surgery, was awarded the Surgeon General's Award for Military Academic Excellence — the Lewis Aspey Mologne Award.

Burgess, a Native Hawaiian physician, is a graduate of Roosevelt High School, the U.S. Military Academy and the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

After serving at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., Burgess returned to Tripler as assistant chief of Otolaryngology in 1990, and was named chief of the residency program in 1994. He was promoted to chief of the surgery department in 1997.

Burgess was named the consultant to the Surgeon General in Otolaryngology in 1996.

PACIFIC COMMAND

Medical talks in New Zealand

The New Zealand Army and the U.S. Army, Pacific co-host the 11th Asia-Pacific Military Medicine Conference in Auckland, New Zealand May 6-11.

Military medical officers from more than 30 Asia-Pacific countries have been invited to participate.

The primary theme of the conference is "Health Support in Operations other than War." Topics for discussion include emerging infectious diseases in the Pacific, disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, and telemedicine.

AIR FORCE

Air Force picks officer of year

Senior Master Sgt. John J. Kilian has been named Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year by the Pacific Air Forces for his work as command supply policy, procedures and environmental management superintendent at Hickam Air Force Base.

Kilian developed a first-ever inspection guidance checklist for the regional supply system, as well as a self-inspection program. He is also credited for his work in the dependent family-care program at Hickam.