Pago Pago, AAMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga is continuing the Island Wide Clean-up Committee (IWCC) — an initiative of the Lolo Administration, which has ASG agencies cleaning up designated zones.

“One of the most impactful initiatives from the previous administration in which we would like to continue during our tenure is the work of the Island Wide Clean-up Committee,” wrote Lemanu in a Jan. 25th memorandum to cabinet members, who were informed that clean up with will held on the last Friday of every month, with the first one today, Friday, Jan. 29th.

“We must continue the momentum that we have garnered thus far,” he pointed out and noted that the current administration is “officially” extending the mandate of the IWCC “to lead us into the next four years of a clean and beautiful American Samoa, one that we would all be proud to call home.

According to the governor the IWCC will maintain its co-chairmen set up from the previous administration — American Samoa Power Authority executive director Wallon Young and American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency director Fa’amao O. Asalele Jr.

Cabinet members were informed of the six zones into which all ASG authorities, departments, agencies and offices have been divided as their responsibility to clean up. Each zone is headed by either a department or authority designated as its Zone Leader.  The first IWCC meeting was held Tuesday this week.

Lemanu asked everyone to give Young and Asalele their full support “in moving forward this initiative.”