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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 [...]

A NOAA awarded to the University of Hawaii’s Marine Laboratory is aimed at helping protect coral reefs on Guam and elsewhere in the Pacific.
The $199,996 grant is meant to address the effects of land-based sources of pollution on coral reefs in the Pacific.
The money will fund the first year of a five-year, $1 million [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives approved the conference report on H.R. 3288, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2010, which includes an appropriation of $737 million for military construction on Guam.
This is the full amount authorized by the Congress in Public Law 111-84, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. The legislation also [...]

Governor Felix P. Camacho departed Guam to meet with the Federal Regional Council (FRC) in San Francisco. While in California, Gov. Camacho will also attend the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) Winter meeting in San Diego.
The FRC’s agenda is expected to include a presentation by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) on the Socioeconomic Impact Assessment [...]

House approves funding for political status public education The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to extend technical assistance grants and other assistance to facilitate a political status public education program on Guam.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would authorize the [...]

The House is scheduled to consider H.R. 3940, on Monday, December 7, 2009, under suspension of the rules, requiring a two-thirds majority vote for passage. H.R. 3940 was introduced on October 10, 2009, by Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, which held a mark-up and reported the bill, as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Governor of Guam has opened a liaison office in Washington to respond to federal policies that affect Guam. The new director, a Cabinet official yet to be named to the position, will track the military buildup, health care reform, immigration laws, stimulus money, and more.
Shawn Gumataotao, the governor’s chief of staff who has been [...]