(AP) — The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has told the federal government that it would accept a 0.125 square mile parcel in Ewa Beach that the state agency plans to eventually redevelop to provide homesteads for Native Hawaiians. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday that the federal government last year offered the site of the former Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to help settle longstanding claims against the U.S. government for unauthorized use of trust lands reserved for Native Hawaiians. The offer stems from a 1995 federal law called the Hawaiian Home Lands Recovery Act that Congress passed to settle past claims.

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