{"id":368706,"date":"2022-05-19T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=368706"},"modified":"2022-05-19T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:00:04","slug":"doi-provides-26-6m-to-american-samoa-for-fiscal-year-2022-government-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/doi-provides-26-6m-to-american-samoa-for-fiscal-year-2022-government-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"DOI provides $26.6M to American Samoa  for fiscal year 2022 government operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of the Interior\u2019s Office of Insular Affairs has provided $26.67 million in fiscal year 2022 funding to the American Samoa government to support the operations of public schools, the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, the community college, and the judicial system in the territory. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to provide this support for critical public services for the people of American Samoa,\u201d said deputy assistant secretary for Insular and International Affairs Keone Nakoa. \u201cEvery year Congress provides this funding support for the territory, and we thank them for the much-needed boost for the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_362411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362411\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Keone-Nakoa-headshot-PW-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-362411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-362411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nakoa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Made available through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-103), the funds will be utilized as follows:<\/p>\n<p>American Samoa Government \u2013 DoE\t$13,090,000<\/p>\n<p>Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Ctr.\t$11,564,400<\/p>\n<p>American Samoa Community College $ 1,558,400<\/p>\n<p>High Court of American Samoa $ 457,200<\/p>\n<p>For a history of the American Samoa Operations program, read the OIA Budget Justification, also known as the OIA Greenbook. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of the Interior\u2019s Office of Insular Affairs has provided $26.67 million in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":363792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[167,1709],"class_list":["post-368706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-samoa","tag-doi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368706","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=368706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}