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 Miscellaneous

Date	Agency	Amount	Purpose
FY 2008 FY 2007 FY 2006
09/25/2006	Pacific Power Association	$20,000.00	Travel to Small Islands State Seminar on Bulk Purchasing of Petroleum.
07/06/2006	Pacific Power Association	$23,000.00	To create a quantifiable and accurate assessment of the energy inefficiencies for each of the power utility members of the PPA.
07/06/2006	Pacific Power Association	$6,000.00	Training Needs Assessment Program
06/22/2006	Pacific Power Association	$55,031.50	Funding for the Power Utility Board Members Workshop, the Power Utility Engineers Workshop and the Guest Speakers at the Annual PPA Conference in July 2006.
03/06/2006	Pacific Power Association	$388,232.00	To produce the reports necessary to fulfill the requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 as it applies to the 4 territories of Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the CNMI as well as the 3 Freely Associated States of Palau, RMI and the FSM.