federal property destruction
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local official with the U.S National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and two ASG cabinet members “have smoothed things over” during a meeting yesterday, following the destruction of a federal government project — established eight-years ago — at the NOAA...

![This photo taken yesterday by Lt. Junior Grade (LTJG) Jackson Vanfleet-Brown, the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps., NOAA Observatory Tula, Station Chief and shared with Samoa News shows what is left of the now destroyed NOAA marine debris science research platform at the NOAA leased property on Tasi Street in Tafuna. [Photo: LTJG Vanfleet-Brown/NOAA] The now destroyed NOAA marine debris science research platform](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/mdmap_destroyed_.jpg?itok=OI5wj9Wf)