Guam State Clearinghouse - “Latest News”

The U.S. Department of Energy has released $8 million for Guam’s energy efficiency programs.
The money is part of the estimated $20 million in energy grants that the government of Guam expects to receive from the U.S. Department of Energy under President Obama’s economic stimulus package.
According to a news release from the office of Guam Delegate [...]

The University of Guam TRIO Programs Educational Talent Search (ETS) received $338K from the US Department of Education for the 2009-2010 Academic Year.
“This funding is for the fifth and final year of the current grant funding cycle,” said Yoichi Rengiil, Director of UOG’s TRIO Programs. “This brings the total funding amount for the program to [...]

Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has released a total of $8,000,000 to the Government of Guam as part of the agency’s Weatherization Assistance Program and State Energy Program. The financial assistance received today is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress and signed into law [...]

Important Datelines

Registration begins Monday, August 17, 2009. Registration for all Federal Agencies and Recipients begins Monday, August 17, 2009. The federalreporting.gov Service Desk will be available for user support from 7 a.m. through 9 p.m. (ET) Monday through Friday to support Registration.
Reporting begins Thursday, October 1, 2009. The FederalReporting.gov system opens for reporting on Thursday, [...]

Recipients of federal stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act can begin Monday registering on a new site where they’ll soon have to send detailed data on their spending.
The new site, FederalReporting.gov, will receive detailed stimulus spending data, which will then be posted to Recovery.gov on October 11.
The new site is [...]

The Government of Guam has been awarded $1 million in Capital Improvement Project funds. This money will be used for preliminary engineering and environmental studies for the modernization of the Jose D. Leon Guerrero Commercial Port facilities.
The Port’s projects were outlined in a proposal and scope of work submitted by the government of Guam to [...]

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Guam $735,000 in 2 separate stimulus grants.
The first award is for $535,000 for the rehabilitation of portions of the Umatac-Merizo Wastewater Treatment Plant, including the replacement of pumps, replacement of valves for the percolation transpiration fields, installation of new aerators and mixers for the treatment lagoon, and [...]

The Department of Transportation has announced 70 grants totaling $98m in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds that will be used to improve small shipyards throughout the United States. The funds, awarded through the Maritime Administration’s Assistance to Small Shipyards program, will help create and preserve jobs, provide valuable employment training and make [...]

Acting Governor Michael W. Cruz, M.D., announced that Hagens Inc. has received an award of $20,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program to install a 15.4 kilowatt renewable energy solar photovoltaic system at their business facility in Tamuning.
This new technology will offset as much as 90 percent of the [...]

Acting Governor Michael W. Cruz, M.D., announced that Guam will receive $2,851,151 from the Community Development Block Recovery Grant. The awarded funds are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and will be used for the construction of the new Southern Police Precinct, the Agat/Santa Rita Fire Station, and the new Guma’ San [...]

Cash for Clunkers is rolling on after President Barack Obama signed a $2 billion extension for the program last week which is good news for new car dealers reporting that buyers are continuing to flock in for the deals.

Within the last 12 months one million dollars in extramural grants have been awarded to University of Guam scientists working at the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center (WPTRC).
Research at WPTRC is as diverse as the agencies that fund the many projects geared toward protecting the environment, helping farmers and studying the ecosystems of the island [...]

Governor Felix P. Camacho has submitted the application to the U.S. Department of Education (U.S. DOE) for initial funding under the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund program (SFSF).
The SFSF is a component of expanded education and public service funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) signed by President Barack Obama in [...]

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today unveiled a new feature on Grants.gov to help users find and apply for The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant opportunities. Grants.gov contains information about finding and applying for all federal grant programs.
The launch of this Recovery Act feature on the homepage of Grants.gov will direct users to [...]

Acting Gov. Mike Cruz announced that the government of Guam has been awarded a $440,000 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs for capital improvement projects.
The grant award will be designated to the following: $140,000 for community improvements in Mangilao, $150,000 for Guam Police Department motorcycle procurement, and $150,000 [...]