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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It was revealed during a Senate Government Operations Committee hearing last Friday where the director of the Department of Public Works (DPW) and the owner of Paramount Builders, the winning bidder for the construction project, testified that the current total cost for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At Thursday’s Senate session, the issue of the new Fono building was raised by Sen. Utu Sila Poasa, who noted that the Senate Government Operations Committee, chaired by Sen. Togiola T.A. Tulafono had recently sent a request for information to Department of Public Works...
Following heavy rain in the wee hours of yesterday morning a large pool of muddy water is seen later in the day at the site of the proposed new Fono building. Seen above the water are some of the steel piles that would elevate the building to meet federal requirements for a flood zone area. “Right...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Head of Public Works' architectural/engineering division, Joe Pereira and Public Works director Faleosina Voigt testified yesterday before the Senate Public Works Committee on the status of the new two-story Fono building construction, which has been on hold since last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa has suggested to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the Department of Port Administration’s planned “Bulkhead Project” is a buffer to reduce the risk of wave surges to the new Fono building.
This was cited in Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IX Administrator, Robert Fenton is open and willing to work with the American Samoa Government to “fashion mutually beneficial solutions” regarding the proposed new two-story multi-million-dollar Fono building.
However...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To address issues of concern raised by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency over the construction of the new Fono building, Gov. Lolo Matalasi plans to form a task force that will recommend changes to “local regulations that will align more closely with federal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga will be sending out this week his official response to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), regarding concerns raised over the construction of the new Fono building, which the federal agency says does not comply with federal...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and US Interior Department’s Office of Insular Affairs director, Nikolao Pula, were among the several individuals who helped turn the soil during yesterday’s ground breaking ceremony for the new two-story Fono building. See today's Lali section for details. [photo: Leua...