Legislative Statement

I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that the Department of Land Management

(DLM)has applied with the Federal Emergency Management Agency

(FEMA)under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for funds to construct its administration building. The DLM desires to use the funds received from the FEMA under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program awarded under Project Number HMGP DR 1446, Project # 15 to construct a building complex to house the operations of the Department of Land Management. The Department proposes to construct the government of Guam building facility on Block 24, in the municipality of Hagåtña. More importantly, I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that the authorization of funds to be received from FEMA is strictly for the funding of the proposed construction of the government of Guam building facility on Block 24, and that I Liheslaturan Guåhan and I Maga’lahen Guåhan cannot transfer or redirect the funding to any accounts other than for the expenditures of the proposed building construction on Block 24, Hagåtña. The proposed construction of the government of Guam building facilities on Block 24, Hagåtna, is particularly described as shown on Re-Subdivision Survey Map, drawing number I406T702, L.M. Check No. 273FY2008, and recorded under document number 799055, November 24, 2009, prepared by Professional Land Surveyor No. 68, Paul L. Santos. The Department of Land Management, with the advisement from the Attorney General’s Office and pursuant to § 75105 of Chapter 75, Title 21, GCA, solicits assistance and is requesting approval from I Liheslaturan Guåhan for development authority of government-owned parcels: Lots 1NEW-2; 1NEW-3; and 1NEW-R6, within Block 24, affected by the consolidation and property boundary realignment of fractional lots within Block 24. The deletion of these substandard parcels, the pre-war lots, also known as fractional parcels within Block 24, municipality of Hagåtña, would provide both private and government-owned parcels the highest and best use for development. I Liheslaturan Guåhan authorizes the Department of Land Management to complete the land exchange negotiated with the COL 7/27/2023 CH. 60 LAND MANAGEMENT privately-owned fractional parcel Lot 317, within Block 24, and the government-owned parcel Lots 1NEW-2 and 1NEW-3, as shown on survey map recorded on Document No. 799055. The exchange is for lots of the same size and with the same basic lots via the re-alignment of boundaries.