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The Guam Community College received word Monday morning from the Department of Interior that the college will receive nearly $320,000 from Interior’s Operations and Maintenance Improvement Program (OMIP) to supply its new Learning Resource Center with recyclable furniture and collateral equipment. The $4.3 million building, which will be the first LEED-certified building for the government [...]

Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas Tony Babauta signed a Coral Reef Initiative grant of $155,000 to support the Micronesia Conservation Trust.
The funds will be used by the trust to strengthen coordination and technical support for the conservation of island natural resources through the Pacific Islands Managed and Protected Areas Community.
These efforts will [...]

Guam is getting a $230,000 federal grant to support its brown tree snake research and control program through the end of the year.
The U.S. territory’s Department of Agriculture will use the money to maintain about 700 traps to continue its native species recovery efforts.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas Tony Babauta said today [...]

The Government Accountability Office released a report on the U.S. insular areas and opportunities that exist to improve the Department of the Interior’s grant oversight and to reduce the potential for mismanagement. The GAO report reviewed the U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, CNMI, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam and how they’ve been spending [...]

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 [...]