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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 Hagatna Heritage Walking Trail, slated for completion in early March, will not only give tourists something to enjoy as a half-day destination on Guam, it may also serve as a teaching tool for local communities who want to learn about Chamorro history.
The 2.5-mile trail, which winds through 17 historic sites in Guam’s capital, is [...]

Governor Felix P. Camacho broke ground for the Northern Sports Complex Recreation Pool and Fitness Trail on Feb. 4, 2010. Construction will begin in conjunction with the ongoing construction of four baseball fields.
“Building a new pool facility, a fitness trail, along with four baseball parks, will compliment the existing gymnasium and soccer fields in the [...]

Governor Felix P. Camacho was recently notified that the government of Guam received a grant award in the amount of $10,300 from the U.S. Department of the Interior. According to a letter from Anthony M. Babauta, Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs, the funding will used by the Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS) [...]

Governor Felix P. Camacho was recently notified that the government of Guam received a grant award in the amount of $709,829.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior. According to a letter from Anthony M. Babauta, Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs, the funding will be provided to the Bureau of Information Technology (BIT), the Department [...]

Governor Felix P. Camacho announced today that the Government of Guam has received a total of $5,360,000 of grant funding from the Department of Interior.
Click here to view this press release in it’s entirety. (pdf format)
Ref: Communication’s Office 12/21/09

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently, Deborah Moberly, coordinator of the Indirect Cost Services division of the United States Department of Interior’s National Business Center, transmitted to the government of Guam, the approved Fiscal Year 2009 Negotiated Indirect Cost Agreement. The negotiated rate for Fiscal Year 2009 is 26.95% for the 12 month period ending September 30, 2009.
The Guam State [...]

The Guam State Clearinghouse (GSC) is a Bureau of the Government of Guam responsible in overseeing the health of Guam’s federal programs. Its mandate clearly articulates that the Clearinghouse oversees, identifies, analyzes and tracks the process of obtaining and receiving sources of Federal funding; and, ensures that the relationship between Federal and local administering [...]

The Port Authority of Guam asked Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo’s assistance with the waiver of the cost share on the $1.2 million port security grant that the authority stands to receive from the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Port general manager Glenn Leon Guerrero said the post security grant program is a 75 [...]