Guam State Clearinghouse - “Latest News”

The A.B. Won Pat International Airport Authority, Guam (GIAA) is pleased to announce that GIAA will perform cleanup of three formerly used military sites on airport property that have low levels of environmental contaminants remaining. The Guam Environmental Protection Agency (GEPA) will oversee the clean up with the assistance of the United States Environmental Protection [...]

The Bureau of Statistics and Plans is seeking a grant request from the Department of Justice’s Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program for drug control and crime prevention programs for fiscal years 2009 through 2012. Guam stands to receive almost $5 million under the Byrne program.
The procedure for allocating justice assistance funds uses [...]

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. today approved the stimulus distribution plan and payment amount for American Samoa, and payments amounts to Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
As required by the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, the Secretary of the Treasury had to approve distribution plans [...]

The Performance Progress Report (PPR) is a new report form designed to replace and consolidate over 1000 performance report forms in use by the federal agencies. The PPR form becomes the standardized, government-wide performance progress reporting format that will be used by Federal agencies to collect performance information from recipients of Federal funds awarded [...]

Federal assistance recipients will soon be using new standard forms to report on financial status and grant-acquired property.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has directed federal agencies to begin using the new Federal Financial Report (SF-425) as soon as possible, but no later than October 2009. This form replaces the existing SF-269, SF-269A, SF-272 [...]

Pursuant to the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) and FFATA (Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act) federal regulations, all subgrantees or subcontractors receiving federal grant awards or contracts in excess of $25,000 must have a DUNS (Data Universal Numbering System) Number and be registered with the CCR (Central Contractor Registration).
The first widespread implementation of [...]

The Performance Progress Report (PPR) is a standard, government-wide performance progress reporting format used by Federal agencies to collect performance information from recipients of Federal funds awarded under all Federal programs that exceed $100,000 or more per project/grant period, excluding those that support research. General instructions for completing the PPR are contained below. Some federal [...]

Public housing on Guam can expect a boost, with $1.9 million in economic stimulus money to be spent on upgrading houses on the island over the next few years. The public housing program currently has 750 units.
The Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority, which will manage the funds, plans to use the grant money to [...]

Bureau of Budget Director Bertha Duenas says “a lot of things are still up in the air” regarding the amount of federal funds Guam can expect from the Obama stimulus package. She spoke at the Stimulus Roundtable hearing at the legislature Thursday.
The BBMR Director explained that although more than 43 million in federal stimulus funds [...]

The police force is also looking to gain new officers and personnel in the coming months.
GPD deputy chief, Bob Camacho says that through a “cops grant” from the stimulus package, Guam police is hoping to secure nearly $24-million dollars expanded over a 3 year timeframe. Camacho says the grant would assist the department in hiring [...]

The Guam State Clearinghouse (GSC) is a Bureau of the Government of Guam responsible in overseeing the health of Guam’s federal programs. Its mandate clearly articulates that the Clearinghouse oversees, identifies, analyzes and tracks the process of obtaining and receiving sources of Federal funding; and, ensures that the relationship between Federal and local administering [...]

Of the $34 billion allocation for transportation under ARRA, Guam received $18 million for highway projects and $922,000 for transit projects through the Federal Territorial Highway Program.
DPW’s three-year transportation improvement plan lists road projects that are about to start or have already begun in the current fiscal year.
The plan, which covers the period from [...]

The grant that the Guam Waterworks Authority received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has increased from $245,000 million in 2008 to $2.5 million this year, according to Heidi Ballendorf, GWA director of communications.
The grant money, which will be allocated for local wastewater and water infrastructure projects, came from EPA’s Clean Water Act [...]

In the last phase of the airport expansion project which is soon be completed, the airport announced it will award the $15.9 million project which will add the last 1,000 feet to the runway.
That will make it 12,000 feet of runway. What this will mean is that more passengers and cargo flights can arrive in [...]