{"id":403203,"date":"2023-12-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403203"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"House-OKs-DPL-use-of-1M-settlement-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/House-OKs-DPL-use-of-1M-settlement-money\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs DPL use of $1M settlement money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives passed yesterday a bill that will allow the Department of Public Lands to use $1 million in settlement money arising from a DPL lawsuit in order to \u201cenhance\u201d its services.<\/p>\n<p>With all 17 House members present at a session voting \u201cyes,\u201d House Bill 23-91 authored by Rep. Blas Jonathan T. Attao (Ind-Saipan) now goes to the Senate for action.<\/p>\n<p>Vice speaker Joel Camacho (Ind-Saipan) and Reps. Ralph N. Yumul (Ind-Saipan) and John Paul P. Sablan (Ind-Saipan) were absent but excused from the session.<\/p>\n<p>Attao introduced the bill yesterday and asked that it be placed on the House\u2019s calendar for action.<\/p>\n<p>House members passed the bill without discussions.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 23-91 would amend Section 711 of the CNMI Public Law 23-09 to allow DPL to use the $1 million allotted under Civil Case 16-04. That money is settlement funds from Kan Pacific Saipan Ltd. and Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC over DPL\u2019s lawsuit against Kan Pacific for breach of the land lease agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, an additional $1 million is appropriated to DPL, bringing the department\u2019s government appropriation to a total of $5,960,881.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/957c4cd1dcb2ee7037df9c624f147cd1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blas Jonathan T. Attao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives passed yesterday a bill that will allow the Department of Public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403203","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}