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Interior OKs $1.3M for new school building in A. Samoa
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Posted on Dec 05 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina recently approved $1,260,000 million in grant assistance to the American Samoa government through the Office of Insular Affairs’ Capital Improvement Project Program. The grant will be used to fund a new two-story classroom building in the village of Utulei at the Samoana High School, one of the territory’s six public high schools.
“This project will replace a building that had been condemned and deemed unsafe for students at the Samoana High School in American Samoa,” said Kia’aina. “It is operating at full capacity and it is critically important that these students have a safe environment for learning and education. We are pleased to support the students of American Samoa in this way.”
The Assistant Secretary, on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, is responsible for coordinating federal policy with respect to the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and administering and overseeing U.S. federal assistance provided to the freely associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau under the Compacts of Free Association. The Assistant Secretary executes these responsibilities through the Office of Insular Affairs whose mission is to foster economic opportunities, promote government efficiency, and improve the quality of life for the people of the insular areas. (DOI)
