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Public Pressure to Distribute Chamorro Land Trust Properties and its Environmental Implications Senator Tom Ada Chairman Committee on Lands, Infrastructure, Transportation, Procurement, Border Protection and Veterans Affairs 33 rd Guam


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Public Pressure to Distribute Chamorro Land Trust Properties

and

its Environmental Implications

Senator Tom Ada Chairman Committee on Lands, Infrastructure, Transportation, Procurement, Border Protection and Veterans’ Affairs 33rd Guam Legislature

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Overview

  • Chamorro Land Trust Program
  • Environmental Concerns
  • Maintaining a balance between

Political vs. Technical Rationality

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Chamorro Land Trust Program

  • Established in 1975
  • Mirror image of Hawaiian Homes

Commission Act of 1920

  • Application intake started in 1995
  • 11,000 applications on file; only

2,500 processed, to date.

  • Up to 1-acre for residential use.
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Chamorro Land Trust (CLT) Land Inventory

  • 5,400 acres available for

distribution for residential and agricultural use.

  • Majority of properties over

Northern Guam Aquifer (NGA).

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CLTC properties

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CLTC and Water Protection Zone

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Areas to Watch Closely

Primary Residential Tract LaJuna Pt. – coral extrctn, 400 acres

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Water Production Wells

  • Approx. 122 wells
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Land Distribution – Limitations

Lack of funds has hampered:

  • - land survey; a prerequisite,
  • - infrastructure development,

no access roads, no water, no power, no sewer in most tracts.

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Land Distribution – Limitations

  • Commercial leasing authority

to generate revenue for infrastructure.

  • political will to bring CLT

program to fruition.

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Protection of NGA a Major Concern

  • Construction of wastewater

infrastructure essential for protection of NGA.

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Prevalence of GWA Customers Not Connected to Sewer Lines.

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Increasing The Threat To The NGA

  • Allowing more residential

homes to be built without sewer connection. .

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Original Parcels

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Subdivided Once

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Subdivided Twice

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Notwithstanding… Do What Is Politically Rational.

  • Distribute Chamorro Land Trust

properties to appease voters.

  • Construction of sewer

infrastructure “to follow”.

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Doing What Is Technically Rational.

  • Infrastructure development in

Chamorro Land Trust tracts

  • Implement aggressive

monitoring programs.

  • Provide adequate funding to

support monitoring programs.

  • Strengthen public policy
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Si Yu’us Ma’ase’