Legislative Findings and Intent

(a)Public Law 17-054 created a protective zone surrounding the perimeter of the Department of Corrections

(DOC)in Mangilao and further authorized I Maga’hågan/Maga’låhen Guåhan to conduct land exchanges on an area-for-area basis with the affected land owners. This zone affected those properties contained within the five hundred foot (500’) radius surrounding the Department of Corrections.

(b)I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that these families whose properties have been adversely affected by the protective zone, and who should have been granted an exchange with government of Guam land, have been left in an uncertain situation for over thirty

(30)years. Furthermore, the government left the landowners in a position where they were unable to improve their properties or to even construct safe and decent homes. I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that, through no fault of their own, these families faced condemnation of their land by default. CH. 68 USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT AND OTHER LAND

(c)More importantly, I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that the Department of Corrections is desirous of returning unused properties back to the original landowners.

(d)Therefore, it is the intent of I Liheslaturan Guåhan to come to a fair and equitable resolution of this thirty

(30)year old continuing problem by returning the properties mentioned herein to the families at no cost.