OIA Press Releases (2020 to Present)

Interior Announces Release of $328 Million to Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands in Rum and Section 30 Tax Payments for FY 2020

09/04/2019

U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Doug Domenech today announced that Interior will be signing over $328,000,000 to Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). The payment includes $69,928,937 to Guam for federal income tax advance payments under Section 30 of the Organic Act of Guam for fiscal year 2020 and $258,375,000 to the USVI in rum tax cover-over payments for the estimated FY 2020 rum tax collections in the territory.

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Interior Assistant Secretary Domenech to Travel to Hawai’i, Guam, and Palau for Meetings on Compact Funding and Coral Reef Preservation

09/03/2019

U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Doug Domenech will be traveling next week to Hawai’i for meetings on Compact of Free Association funding for the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). The following week he will travel to Guam and also to the Republic of Palau to co-chair the annual meeting of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force.

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U.S. and CNMI Submit Final Report on Federal Discretionary Parole Policies

07/02/2019

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Governor Ralph Torres and DOI Assistant Secretary Doug Domenech, submitted the final 902 Consultation Report on Federal Discretionary Parole Policies recommending several collaborative steps forward to protect economic and security interests for the United States in the CNMI. 

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Interior’s Insular Affairs Director Pula Meets with Governor Torres, Other Leaders in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

06/18/2019

U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) Director Nik Pula met today with Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Governor Ralph Torres in the territory where they discussed challenges in disaster recovery efforts, Medicaid funding shortfalls, and labor issues affecting the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 

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Interior Supports Marshallese Community in Arkansas with Grant to Marshallese Resource and Educational Center

06/11/2019

U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary, Insular and International Affairs, Doug Domenech and the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) this week announced $217,594 in fiscal year (FY) 2019 funding support to the Marshallese Education Initiative for the Marshallese Resource and Educational Center (MREC) in Springdale, Arkansas, home to the largest concentration of Marshallese residents outside of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). 

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