The Office of Insular Affairs has awarded the CNMI $3,493,510 in grant funding under the fiscal year 2021 Technical Assistance Program and the Maintenance Assistance Program for the following priority projects:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2022 $1,171,160 to the Department of Finance for the Revenue Management Information Tax System;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $363,736 to the Department of Finance for a CNMI Wide Valuation Report;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $265,500 to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. for an automated Water Read, Supply, and Lead Detection System Pilot Project;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $245,000 to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. for a feasibility study for a Wastewater Collection, Transmission, and Treatment System Project;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $241,431 to the Office of the Governor for a CNMI Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreational Planning Initiative;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $183,876 to the Office of the Governor for a Comprehensive Wetlands Management Plan;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $169,307 to the Municipality of Tinian and Aguiguan for the House of Taga Restoration and Preservation Project;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $150,000 to the Office of the Governor for the Implementation of the Saipan Street Naming and Addressing Master Map;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $368,500 to the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) for the Jet Vac Sewer Cleaning Equipment Acquisition;<\/p>\n
\u2022 $150,000 to the Municipality of Tinian and Aguiguan for the Backhoe Loader Acquisition; and <\/p>\n
\u2022 $185,000 to the Commonwealth Ports Authority for Maintenance equipment for the Tinian Airport and Port of Tinian.<\/p>\n
Nikolao Pula, acting assistant secretary for Insular and International Affairs, recently informed Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres of the award. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The OIA also authorized the awarding of CARES Act funding to the Commonwealth $581,749 for the Renovation and Improvements to the Laboratory Project.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026We are very thankful to [Pula] and OIA for their continued support of our community priorities and our ongoing recovery from the 2018 typhoon season and the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d Torres said. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Office of Insular Affairs has awarded the CNMI $3,493,510 in grant funding under the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":342559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-347161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}