{"id":363281,"date":"2022-03-02T06:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=363281"},"modified":"2022-03-02T06:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:05:55","slug":"kilili-leads-effort-to-adjust-how-46m-highway-program-is-allocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kilili-leads-effort-to-adjust-how-46m-highway-program-is-allocated\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilili leads effort to adjust how $46M highway program is allocated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) said over the weekend that he is leading an effort with Guam Delegate Michael San Nicolas (D-GU) and American Samoa Delegate Amata Radewagen (R-AS) to have the U.S. Department of Transportation adjust how the $46 million Territorial Highway Program is allocated. <\/p>\n<p>In his e-kilili newsletter, Sablan said DOT announced Thursday the availability of $46 million in federal highway funds for the Marianas, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360266\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gregorio-Kilili-Sablan-headshot-PW-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-360266\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act increased the Territorial Highway Program, though which this money flows, by 14% over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI delegate said the CNMI and American Samoa currently each receive only 10% of the funding. Yet, he said, the new 2020 U.S. Census results find that the CNMI\u2019s population is greater than 10% of the total of all four insular areas.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said by other measures, such as road distance and land area, the current allocation formula also short-changes the Marianas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a significant amount of new money becoming available, now is the time to reconsider this administrative funding formula that has not changed since 1992,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) said over the weekend that he is leading an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":360267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23771],"class_list":["post-363281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kilili"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363281","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}