OIA Press Releases (2020 to Present)

President Trump Proposes $619 Million for the U.S. Territories and the Freely Associated States in the FY 2021 Budget

02/10/2020

President Trump today proposed $619 million for the Office of Insular Affairs fiscal year 2021 budget for the benefit of fellow Americans in the U.S. territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The proposal also includes funding for U.S. allies in the Pacific who have a Compact of Free Association with the United States – the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. 

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Bureau of Reclamation Water Treatment Engineers to Assist Palau Public Utilities Corporation

02/05/2020

A team of water treatment engineers from the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) will be in the Republic of Palau for two weeks beginning February 7, 2020, to assist the Palau Public Utilities Corporation. Supported by funding from the Office of Insular Affairs, their work will include assessing the conditions at sixteen water treatment facilities throughout Palau.

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Interior Assistant Secretary Releases 2019 Accomplishments for the Offices of Insular and International Affairs

01/23/2020

DOI Assistant Secretary Doug Domenech has released a list of significant 2019 accomplishments and events impacting the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as the three freely associated states (FAS) of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau.

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Interior Provides $2 Million in Supplemental Disaster Recovery Funding to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

12/19/2019

Assistant Secretary Doug Domenech today announced that Interior will provide $2,000,000 to the government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) to streamline financial management and coordination of disaster recovery funding across local agencies and organizations receiving federal assistance as a result of impacts from Typhoon Yutu.

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