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The Department of Education is finalizing a list of capital improvement projects in order to receive millions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Superintendent Dr. Nerissa Bretania Underwood says DOE will be forwarding its list to the governor’s office tomorrow. The list includes the implementation of a financial management system, and the [...]

Acting Governor Michael W. Cruz, M.D, announced that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs has awarded a grant of $286,657 to the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA). These Compact Impact funds will be used for the completion of an operational assessment and a feasibility study that will enable GMHA to become [...]

In an effort to protect people where they live, work, and play, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the award of $138,000 to Guam under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks.
The greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum [...]

Acting Governor Mike Cruz has called on the Guam Attorney General to review the procurement process used by GovGuam in the award of $350,000 in federal funds for a public relations project for the Port of Guam.
The call for a review by the Attorney General follows a series of reports in the Pacific Daily [...]

One billion dollars has been made available to the st ates and territories for additional police officers. Guam will get a share of the grant funds from the Obama stimulus package. The U.S. attorney general says the funds were granted to those agencies that have a proven track record. The grant money will be used [...]

The United States Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration awarded Guam $921,976 in ARRA funds to the Mass Tranist Authority of the Department of Administration. Funds will be used to purchase three 30-foot replacement buses and one 30 foot- replacement bus. The Department of Administration-Division of Public Transportation Services is planning to expand [...]

Poor usability and mismanagement plague Grants.gov, which gives access to $500 billion in annual grants, Government Accountability Office survey finds.
Grants.gov, a federal government Website designed to give citizens access to $500 billion in annual government grants, is mismanaged and difficult to use, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released this week.
The [...]

The University of Guam received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assist farmers in their struggle against invasive spiders and broad mites.
Eggplant farmers in the region have been experiencing difficulties with spider and broad mites damaging their crops, with some farmers completely abandoning the cultivation of eggplant due to losses, a [...]

Acting Gov. Mike Cruz announced that in fiscal year 2010, the Government of Guam will receive US$2.6 million more annually in Compact impact grant funding. The increase brings the annual funding amount from US$14.2 million received in years past to US$16.8 million.
Thomas Bassanich, Budget and Grants Management Division director of the Department of the [...]

The University of Guam’s Western Pacific Tropical Research Center (WPTRC) was awarded $510,165 in T-STAR grant funds from USDA.
T-STAR (Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture Research) is a special grant program explicitly for research that enhances the development of sound tropical and subtropical agricultural practices including value-added product development and the control of diseases, insects, weeds, [...]

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has awarded the Government of Guam a combined grant and 30-year, low-interest loan supporting the construction of a new landfill to replace the current Ordot landfill.
The award includes $15,019,300 in direct Stimulus grant funding and a loan of $88,536,000 to be paid [...]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) mandates significant reporting and record-keeping for states and insular areas that accept funds. Recent guidance released by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) details those requirements, including the newly developed online system that will be used to collect the data. While many federal agencies will [...]

Guam Homeland Security and the Office of Civil Defense will turn over more than $14,000 in equipment to the Guam Fire Department (GFD). The gear is funded through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Grant Program (HSGP).
GFD will received fifteen (15) Night Jaguar Binoculars and fifteen (15) Tactical Waterproof Binoculars valued at $14,488.95.
“We will continue [...]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulations regarding grants to States for construction or acquisition of State homes to update the maximum number of nursing home and domiciliary beds designated for each State and to amend the definition of “State” for purposes of these grants to include Guam, the Northern Mariana [...]

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $350 million in grants to help states and territories prepare for the 2009 novel H1N1 flu virus and the fall flu season.
The announcement comes one day after hosting a summit on the 2009 novel H1N1 flu with state, tribal, territorial, and local government [...]