OIA OMIP Grants

OMIP Grant Awardees

The Operations and Maintenance Improvement Program (OMIP) is part of the Technical Assistance Program in the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA), which designed OMIP to create and to support institutions that enhance the capability of the governments of the insular areas and the freely associated states (FAS) to maintain their capital infrastructure. Specific areas that OIA has targeted for OMIP assistance are water, sewage or power systems, solid waste disposal, roads, ports, airports, schools and other public buildings. OIA manages OMIP frequently with the assistance of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, particularly in the Pacific insular areas and the FAS.

The Office of Insular Affairs is pleased to announce the approval of the following grants under the Operations and Maintenance Improvement Program (OMIP).

FY06 American Samoa

Date	Agency	Amount	Purpose
FY 2007 FY 2006
09/12/2006	American Samoa Government	$400,000	Waste and Wastewater funding to the LBJ Tropical Medical Center
06/26/2006	Department of Port Administration	$28,100	For the Certification Training for Airport Firefighters
01/23/2006	American Samoa Power Authority	$17,100	For Power Distribution System Design Training
01/23/2006	American Samoa Power Authority	$21,312	For various operations and maintenance improvement projects
01/23/2006	American Samoa Power Authority	$362,967	Continuation of the Pacific Linemen Training Program