Proposed Programmatic Agreement for the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program in the State of Hawaiʻi
The Department of War (DOW)’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program facilitates long-term, collaborative partnerships that work to sustain military readiness and improve installation and community resilience. These partnerships safeguard off-base natural and working lands by promoting compatible and sustainable land uses while preserving habitats that provide critical ecosystem services. Since FY 2005, the REPI Program and the Military Services have invested over $133 million dollars in Hawaiʻi through FY 2025. REPI projects leverage significant partner contributions and expertise from other Federal, state, and local governments, and private land managers. The DOW’s partners in Hawaiʻi work in close collaboration with the Military Services to develop and implement REPI projects including, but not limited to:
- Natural resources management, restoration, and protection for areas beyond installation boundaries. For example, invasive species control, exclusive devices such as signs and fences, equipment to directly support natural resource management, education in support of natural resource management, species monitoring, species translocation or reintroduction, necessary reports, future updates to adaptive management plans. These efforts reduce environmental threats that could impair training access or degrade mission-critical landscapes.
- Implementing activities (e.g., wetland or oyster reef restoration and maintenance, fuel load management, wildfire risk reduction, and water rights lease agreements) that will maintain or improve military installation resilience through discretionary nature-based solutions to protect testing, training, and operations and safeguard testing, training, and operational capabilities through nature-based solutions aligned with defense priorities.
The DOW has determined that certain REPI projects may be subject to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). The DOW Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment is responsible for oversight of the REPI Program and worked with the Military Services to determine that a streamlined, unified, and consistent approach for NHPA compliance among all the Military Services would accelerate REPI project execution and ensure compliance while advancing mission-critical objectives and partner goals across Hawaiʻi. To facilitate this implementation, DOW seeks to develop a Programmatic Agreement to ensure meaningful and efficient Section 106 consultation for the DOW REPI Program in Hawai’i.
Programmatic Agreement Comment Plan
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Consultation Conference Briefings
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Administrative and Technical Documents
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Notifications and Announcements
Invitation to Consult under NHPA Section 106 on DoD’s Hawai’i REPI Programmatic Agreement
Links
Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration > Buffer Projects > REPI Pacific