About the Office of Insular Affairs
OIA Staff & Divisions
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Policy & Liaison Division The Policy & Liaison Division serves several functions as identified below:
- Serves as OIA’s liaison to the Congress, the four territorial and three freely associated state governments, other Federal agencies, the media and the public
- Oversees (a) the Compact of Free Association trust funds for the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia and (b) annual budgets for two Marshall Islands atoll governments (Bikini and Rongelap)
- Advances the rehabilitation of four Marshall Islands atolls (Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Utrik) and the resettlement of the peoples of the four atolls
- Carries out the Secretary's responsibilities as the civil administrator of the Palmyra Atoll Excluded Areas and, as appropriate, the residual civil administrator of Wake Atoll
- Maintains a field office in American Samoa and two field offices in the Northern Mariana Islands; Has field desk officers in the FSM (Pohnpei), Palau, and the Marshall Islands.
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Randy Beffrey |
Administrative Officer |
Ryan Edgar |
STEP Intern - FAS Issues and Private Sector Development |
Tanya Harris Joshua |
Desk Officer for Micronesia (FSM) and Palau; OIA Website |
Karen Koltes |
Coral Reef Preservation |
Joseph McDermott |
Director Policy and Desk Officer for American Samoa, the Marshall
Islands, Palmyra Atoll's Excluded Areas and Wake Atoll's Residual Administration |
Randy Mendoza |
OIA Intern |
Richard Miller |
Trust Funds for Micronesia (FSM) and the Marshall Islands under the Compact
of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 |
Wali Osman |
Economist |
Stephen Sander |
Legislative Affairs, Trust Funds for Micronesia (FSM) and the Marshall
Islands under the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 |
Francisco Taitano |
Desk Officer for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands; Press |
Marina Tinitali |
Accountability Policy & Audits; Desk Officer for American Samoa;
Emergency Management Coordinator |
Angela Williams |
Private Sector Development |
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Office of Insular Affairs - Policy & Liaison Division
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-6816
FAX: (202) 219-1989
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Budget Division This division budgets and accounts for OIA office expenditures and island grants. This division also maintains management for specially appropriated grant programs. |
- Tom Bussanich, Director
- Tom Bussanich - Compact Grants
- Jonathan Dunn - CIP - Brown Tree Snake Program
- Cheryl Jodoin - OMIP
- Faride Komisar - CIP
- Charlene Leizear - Finance, Loans, Budget, FBMS, VI Rum Excise Taxes, Guam Section 30 Income Tax Collections, Capital Improvement Program
- Annette Stewart - Grant Obligations and Payments, Budget
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- Field Offices in Hawaii, FSM and Palau report to Budget Division Director
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Office of Insular Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-6971
FAX: (202) 208-7585
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Technical Assistance DivisionThe Division of Technical Assistance provides discretionary technical assistance funding to the insular governments, institutions and private firms which fall under OIA jurisdiction. |
- Charlene Leizear , Director of Technical Assistance
- Mary Baltimore, Technical Assistance Coordinator
- Merriam Porter, Technical Assistance Coordinator
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Office of Insular Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-4707
FAX: (202) 208-1545 |
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OIA's Honolulu Field OfficeThis office manages Compact II requirements for finance, performance standards and
sector grants for the Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of the Marshall Islands. |
- Roylinne Wada – Field Office Manager
- Tim Donohue, Education Sector Grants Manager/SEG
- Sissy Hungerford, Secretary
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Stephen Savage, Field Office Manager, Compact Grants
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Gerald Shea, Public Sector Capacity Building Grants Manager
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Roylinne Wada, Special Assistant to the DAS on Health
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Office of Insular Affairs – Honolulu Office
733 Bishop Street, Suite 2530
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
Phone (808) 525-5399
Fax (808) 525-5399 |
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OIA Field Representatives
- American Samoa – Lydia Faleafine-Nomura - (684) 633-2800
- CNMI – Keith Augenbaugh - (670) 233-9439
- CNMI – Jeffrey Schorr - (670) 234-8861
- FSM – Vic Hobson - (691) 320-2187
- RMI – Al Fowler - (692) 247-4011
- Palau – Haruo Wilter - (680) 488-2601
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Responsibilities and Authorities
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Responsibilities of OIA
- Authorities of the Secretary of Interior
- U.S. Virgin Islands – Executive
Order 5566, February 27, 1931
- Guam
- Executive Order 10137, August 1, 1950
- American
Samoa – Executive Order 10264,
July 1, 1951
- Northern
Mariana Islands – Executive
Order 12572, November 3, 1986
- Establishment
of IGIA – Executive Order 13299, May 8,
2003
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U.S. code Title 48; Public Laws; Compacts
- U.S.
Code Title 48 - Territories and Insular Possessions
- Public Law 90-496,
sec.13, August 23, 1968 – USVI and Federal
Government relations under Interior
- Public Law 90-497, sec.12(a), September 11, 1968 Guam and Federal Government
relations under Interior
- Public Law 96-597, sec.601(a),
December 24, 1980 – Methods of
Assistance to Insular Areas
- Proclamation 5564, November 3, 1986 Termination of U.S. Trusteeship
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) — OIA's CFDA
number is 15.875
- Compacts
of Free Association:
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History of OIA
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Former Heads of OIA
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