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The Guam Department of Education has received the USDOE’s amended special conditions letter, which identifies Superintendent Dr. Nerissa Underwood and GDOE internal auditor Lester Kuykendall as the point of contacts who will provide assurances to federal agency that the conditions for drawing down funds are complied with.
Under this condition, Underwood and Kuykendall will have to [...]

PBS Guam, formerly KGTF-TV12, will upgrade to a fully digital broadcast facility with funds from a grant awarded on Sept. 22, 2009, by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) grant will provide the full $199,500 needed for the station’s master control room upgrade. “The existing master control unit is [...]

The Guam Fire Department will be eligible to apply for additional federal funds after the U.S. House passed the “Fire Grants Reauthorization Act of 2009.”
Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo announced that eligibility after House passage of H.R. 3791.
H.R. 3791 authorizes a total of $2.2 billion a year in competitive grants to upgrade equipment and maintain [...]

A federal loan and grant to help the government of Guam build a new landfill has received final approval, and now it’s a matter of getting the documents in place to close the deal, according to USDA Rural Development Office area director Joe Diego, who said the loan could be closed in about 30 days.
The [...]

On November 9, 2009, Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas, Tony Babauta signed a technical assistance grant in the amount of $236,100 for Junior Statesmen Foundation (JSF) scholarships for twenty-four high school students from the insular areas to attend the 2010 Junior Statesmen Summer Schools.
“We are delighted that our partnership with the Department of the [...]

The National Cancer Institute has awarded a combined grant to the University of Hawaii’s Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and the University of Guam.
The $12.6 million grant will be used to support the institutions’ cancer research partnership program.
Dr. Carl Wilhelm-Vogel is the principal investigator and former director of the cancer center.
He says the award will [...]