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Governor Felix P. Camacho met with U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar in Washington, D.C., to conclude a week of meetings centered on military expansion in the Western Pacific and efforts to expand renewable energy on Guahan. Secretary Salazar committed his agency’s senior leadership to ensure the Guam Military Buildup Program moves [...]

Madam Chair and members of the House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, it is a privilege to appear before you today to present the President’s fiscal year 2011 budget request for the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA). OIA is responsible for overseeing, on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, the Federal Government’s [...]

The Port Authority of Guam’s $206.9 million modernization plan took a serious setback yesterday after the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) denied the port’s request for $50 million in national recovery grants for port projects.
The rejected grant request means the port can’t qualify for the $49.1 million low-interest loan it wants from the U.S. Department [...]

The government of Guam’s financial leaders said they would release enough money so federally funded public school system employees won’t have to skip work, said Department of Education Superintendent Nerissa Bretania Underwood.
Department of Administration acting Director John Camacho said his agency will release about $6.1 million to DOE, which is enough money to pay the [...]

More than 500 federally funded Guam DOE employees are once again facing the prospect of being laid off next week because the school system doesn’t have the money to pay them.
Superintendent Nerissa Underwood broke the news to those employees at a meeting at Tamuning Elementary Monday afternoon.
DOE needs close to $7 million dollars by Friday [...]

The Office of the Attorney General has released the findings of an investigation of a Port Authority of Guam contract paid through federally funded “Office of Economic Adjustment” funds. The amount of $350,000 is under local and federal review and was placed on hold for payment.
Click on the link to read the Attorney General’s [...]

The government will no longer be able to advance allotments for the Guam Department of Education due to low revenue collections. Dr. Nerissa Underwood Education superintendent Dr. Nerissa Underwood has received this notice from the Bureau of Budget and Management and George Bamba, the governor’s chief of staff.
The notice prompted Underwood to write to Phil [...]

The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) submitted a favorable audit report earlier this month outlining the results of a recently completed review of the Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority (GHURA) capital funds administered under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
The report [...]

Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Anthony M. Babauta has sent a letter to Governors Linda Lingle and Felix Camacho to notify them that they will be receiving $11,228,742 and $16,827,026 in Compact Impact funding for Hawaii and Guam respectively.
Section 104 (e) of Title One of the amended Compacts of Free Association describes financial assistance, otherwise [...]

The Port Authority of Guam has submitted a TIGER Grant application by the September 15, 2009 deadline. The Port has applied for $49.7 million for the Port Modernization Program. Awards are anticipated to be announced between late December 2009 and February 2010. This funding, if approved will be combined with USDA financing in the amount [...]

Three additional ARRA TIGER Discretionary Grants with a total value of $74 million were submitted by Governor Felix P. Camacho and the Department of Public Works Tuesday.
Grant applications were submitted for the following three projects:
Route 10A Intermodal Highway Project - $33.5 million in grant funds (96% of the total project costs) were requested [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has disclosed Guam’s allocation of $1,221,922 from the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program. The allocation allows Guam to receive up to the $1.22 million allocation to prevent individuals and families from becoming or remaining homeless.
The Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program will provide [...]