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Guam gets $5.7M in 2019 Compact Impact funding
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of the Interior has released $5,736,250—a portion of Guam’s fiscal year 2019 share of Compact Impact funding—to support the public school leaseback program in Guam.
“We are pleased to release a portion of Compact Impact funding in support of Guam’s public schools,” said Doug Domenech, Assistant Secretary, Insular and International Affairs. “As soon as the fiscal year 2019 enumeration population numbers are finalized, we can calculate the updated distribution amounts and release the remainder of this year’s funding to Guam and the other affected U.S. jurisdictions.”
Under the Compacts of Free Association, citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau are legal nonimmigrants able to live, work, and study in the United States.
As a result of migration under the Compact and the increased impact and demands placed on public services in Guam, Hawaii, the CNMI, and American Samoa, the U.S. Congress, in 2003, allocated $30 million in annual funding to be distributed among these four affected U.S. jurisdictions. Every five years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts an enumeration of Compact migrants that is used to determine distribution amounts. The next enumeration will be completed in early 2019.
Under current law, the $30-million Compact Impact allocation for affected U.S. jurisdictions expires in 2023. (PR)
