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Balancing the Tides
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Still Living Without the Basics in the 21St Century
rcap_cover_final 6/2/04 2:21 PM Page 1 Still Living Without the Basics in the 21st Century Analyzing the Availability of Wa t e r and Sanitation Services in the United States Rural Community Assistance Partnership Still Living Without the Basics Table of Contents Foreword.............................................................................................................................................................1 Executive Summary...........................................................................................................................................3 Still Living Without the Basics in the 21st Century ......................................................................................3 Still Living Without the Basics: Analyzing the Availability of Water and Sanitation Services in the United States.......................................................................................................................................................7 Introduction........................................................................................................................................................7 Methodological Layout of the Study...............................................................................................................8 Part I of the Analysis......................................................................................................................................8 Part II of the Analysis....................................................................................................................................9 -
American Samoa
Coral Reef Habitat Assessment for U.S. Marine Protected Areas: U.S. Territory of American Samoa National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA’s National Ocean Service Management & Budget Office Special Projects February 2009 Project Overview About this Effort NCCOS Benthic Habitat Mapping Effort The United States Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF), in both its National The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Action Plan to Conserve Coral Reefs (2000) and its National Coral Reef Ocean Service (NOS) initiated a coral reef research program in 1999 to Action Strategy (2002), established a key conservation objective of pro- map, assess, inventory, and monitor U.S. coral reef ecosystems (Monaco tecting at least 20% of U.S. coral reefs and associated habitat types in et al. 2001). These activities were implemented in response to require- no-take marine reserves. NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program has ments outlined in the Mapping Implementation Plan developed by the Map- been supporting efforts to assess current protection levels of coral reefs ping and Information Synthesis Working Group (MISWG) of the Coral Reef within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and quantify the area of U.S. coral Task Force (CRTF) (MISWG 1999). NOS’s National Centers for Coastal reef ecosystems protected in no-take reserves. The official federal defini- Ocean Science (NCCOS) Biogeography Team was charged with the de- tion of an MPA, signed into law by Executive Order 13158, is “any area of velopment and implementation of a plan to produce comprehensive digital the marine environment that has been reserved by federal, state, tribal, coral-reef ecosystem maps for all U.S. -
Download Press Release
FEMA registrations for Aua, Alega, Avaio, Lauli’i, Afono, and Auto Release Date: April 10, 2018 PAGO PAGO, American Samoa – The American Samoa Government (ASG) and FEMA schedule more residents to register for assistance. Only heads of households need to register. Residents who were affected by Tropical Storm Gita may use the following schedule to register for assistance at the Disaster Recovery Center (DRC). Thursday, April 12, Aua all who preregistered Thursday, April 12, Alega and Avaio all who preregistered Friday, April 13, Lauli’i all who preregistered Friday, April 13, Afono all who preregistered Friday, April 13, Auto all who preregistered Saturday, April 14, Make-up day for Mapusaga, Tafeta, Taputimu, Leone, Fagasa, Vatia, Aumi, Aua, Alega, Avaio, Lauli’i, Afono, and Auto. Applicants should have the following information at hand: Social Security number. Address of the damaged primary residence. Description of the damage. Information about insurance coverage if applicable. A current contact telephone number. A PO Box where they can receive mail. Bank account and routing numbers for direct deposit of funds. The Territory and FEMA will continue to schedule dates and times for villages to register for federal assistance at the DRC. Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) teams will be available through Monday, April 16 to help register heads of household with access and functional needs. Call the Crisis Hotline at (684) 633-901 to request a home visit. After April 16, DSA teams will not be available. Anyone who already has a slip with DSA written on it is already registered. Page 1 of 2 Page printed at fema.gov/press-release/20210318/fema-registrations-aua-alega-avaio-laulii-afono-and-auto 09/29/2021 The DRC is located at the Department of Youth and Women Affairs, Pago Pago Sports Village, Pago Pago, AS 96799. -
GAO-08-655 American Samoa
United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters GAO June 2008 AMERICAN SAMOA Issues Associated with Potential Changes to the Current System for Adjudicating Matters of Federal Law GAO-08-655 June 2008 AMERICAN SAMOA Accountability Integrity Reliability Issues Associated with Potential Changes to the Highlights Current System for Adjudicating Matters of Federal Highlights of GAO-08-655, a report to Law congressional requesters Why GAO Did This Study What GAO Found American Samoa is the only Because American Samoa does not have a federal court like the CNMI, Guam, populated U.S. insular area that or USVI, matters of federal law arising in American Samoa have generally does not have a federal court. been adjudicated in U.S. district courts in Hawaii or the District of Columbia. Congress has granted the local High Court federal jurisdiction for Reasons offered for changing the existing system focus primarily on the certain federal matters, such as difficulties of adjudicating matters of federal law arising in American Samoa, specific areas of maritime law. GAO was asked to conduct a study principally based on American Samoa’s remote location, and the desire to of American Samoa’s system for provide American Samoans more direct access to justice. Reasons offered addressing matters of federal law. against any changes focus primarily on concerns about the effects of an Specifically, this report discusses: increased federal presence on Samoan culture and traditions and concerns (1) the current system for about juries’ impartiality given close family ties. During the mid-1990s, several adjudicating matters of federal law proposals were studied and many of the issues discussed then, such as the in American Samoa and how it protection of local culture, were also raised during this study. -
Am. Samoa Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2008
American Samoa Revision and Update of the Territory Hazard Mitigation Plan April 28, 2008 2007 Project Team Territorial Emergency Management Coordinating Office Office of the Governor P.O. Box 997755 Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 Phone: 011 (684) 699-6482 Fax: 011 (684) 699-6414 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.asg-gov.com/agencies/temco.asg.htm American Samoa Disaster Recovery Office American Samoa Government Nu'uuli #26-500 P.O. Box 50018 Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 Phone: 011 (684) 699-1330 Fax: 011 (684) 699-5005 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.asg-gov.com Jamie Caplan Consulting LLC 351 Pleasant Street, #208 Northampton, MA 01060 USA Phone: 1(413) 586-0867 Fax: 1(413) 303-0412 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.jamiecaplan.com 2003 Project Team Territorial Emergency Management Coordinating Office Office of the Governor P.O. Box 997755 Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 Phone: 011 (684) 699-6482 Fax: 011 (684) 699-6414 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.asg- gov.com/agencies/temco.asg.htm East West Center 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96848-1601 USA Phone: 1 (808) 944-7111 Fax: 1 (808) 944-7376 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.EastWestCenter.org Pacific Disaster Center 1305 N. Holopono St. #2 Kihei, HI, 96753-6900 USA Phone: 1 (808) 891-0525 Fax: 1 (808) 891-0526 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.pdc.org Social Science Research Institute University of Hawaii at Manoa 2424 Maile Way Saunders Hall, Suite 704 Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Phone: 1 (808) 956-8930 Fax: 1 (808) 956-2884 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu/ssri/ The 2007 American Samoa Hazard Mitigation Plan was developed by a consulting team from Jamie Caplan Consulting LLC, and the Lieutenant Governor, the Territorial Emergency Management Coordinating Office, the staff of the American Samoa Disaster Recovery Office, the Territorial Hazard Mitigation Council and Directors and technical staff of the American Samoa Government. -
Planning Activities
Coastal Community Resilience Building Resilience from the Inside Out AWR-228 Participant Guide Version 1.0 NATIONAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS TRAINING CENTER Copyright Information Coastal Community Resilience © National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, University of Hawaii 2011 All Rights Reserved. First Edition 2011 This Printing: July 2011 Printed in the United States of America Reproduction of this document in whole or in part in any form or by any means – graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, digital copying, recording, taping, Web distribution, or information storage and retrieval systems is strictly prohibited. This program was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number 2009-NA-T9-K004 and 2010-NA-T0-K012 administered by the US Department of Homeland Security, National Training and Education Division. Points of view or opinions in this program are those of the author(s) and do not represent the position or policies of the US Department of Homeland Security. Department of Homeland Security reserves a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use, and authorize others to use, for federal government purposes: (1) the copyright in any work developed under an award or subaward; and (2) any rights of copyright to which a recipient or sub-recipient purchases ownership with federal support. Coastal Community Resilience Participant Guide Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................... -
Ethnographic Assessment and Overview National Park of American Samoa
PACIFIC COOPERATIVE STUDIES UNIT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I AT MĀNOA Dr. David C. Duffy, Unit Leader Department of Botany 3190 Maile Way, St. John #408 Honolulu, Hawai’i 96822 Technical Report 152 ETHNOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT AND OVERVIEW NATIONAL PARK OF AMERICAN SAMOA November 2006 Jocelyn Linnekin1, Terry Hunt, Leslie Lang and Timothy McCormick 1 Email: [email protected]. Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut Beach Hall Room 445, U-2176 354 Mansfield Road Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2176 Ethnographic Assessment and Overview The National Park of American Samoa Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures iii List of Slides v Preface: Study Issues vi Maps vii Key to Maps x I. The Environmental Context 1 Climate and Vegetation 1 The National Park Environments 4 II. Archaeology and Samoan Prehistory 8 Early Settlement 8 Later Inland Settlement 9 Late Prehistoric Period 9 European Contact and the Historical Period 10 Archaeology in the National Park Units 10 III. Research Methodology 15 Documentary Phase 15 Field Research 15 Limitations of the Research 17 IV. Ethnohistory 22 Myths and Legends Relevant to the Park 22 The European Contact Period 25 Western Ethnohistorical and Ethnographic Reports 31 V. Agriculture and Domestically Useful Plants 46 Tutuila Unit 46 Ta'u Unit 49 Ofu Unit 51 Summary 52 VI. Marine Resources 53 Tutuila Unit 53 Ta'u Unit 57 Ofu Unit 58 Summary 61 i VII. Medicinal Plants 63 Ofu Unit 63 Ta'u Unit 66 Tutuila Unit 66 Summary 67 VIII. Analysis of Freelist Data 75 Crops and Cultivated Plants 76 Medicinal Plants 81 Fish and Marine Species 84 Animals and Birds 86 Summary of the Freelist Results 88 IX. -
CHAPTER II Planning Area Profile for Hazard Mitigation Analysis
CHAPTER II Planning Area Profile for Hazard Mitigation Analysis 24 Territory of American Samoa Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan A U.S. Territory since 1900, American Samoa is located in the central South Pacific Ocean, 2,300 miles south-southwest of Hawaii and 1,600 miles east-northeast of New Zealand. American Samoa has a total land area of approximately 76 square miles and consists of a group of five volcanic islands and two atolls (Rose Atoll and Swains Island). The five volcanic islands, Tutuila, Aunu’u, Ofu, Olosega, and Ta’u, are the major inhabited islands. Tutuila is the largest island and the center of government. Ofu, Olosega, and Ta’u, collectively are referred to as the Manu’a Islands. Figure 1 Base Map of American Samoa depicts all of the islands of American Samoa. Figure 1. Base Map of American Samoa. The five volcanic islands, Tutuila, Aunu’u, Ofu, Olosega, and Ta’u, are the inhabited islands. At 53 square miles, Tutuila is the largest and oldest of the islands, and is the center of government and business. It is a long, narrow island lying SW-NE, is just over 20 miles in length, and ranges from 1 to 2 miles wide in the eastern half, and from 2 to 5 miles wide in the western half. Home to 95 percent of the territory’s 55,000 residents, Tutuila is the historic capitol (Pago Pago), the seat of American Samoa’s legislature and judiciary (Fagatogo), as well as the office of the Governor. Tutuila is often divided into 3 regions: the eastern district, the western district and Manu’a district. -
Recovery from Disturbance
Results of the Territorial Monitoring Program of American Samoa for 2008, Benthic Section. By Douglas Fenner, Ph.D. Coral Reef Monitoring Ecologist Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources (DMWR) American Samoa 2009 Report to DMWR, the Coral Reef Advisory Group (CRAG), and NOAA Supported by a NOAA Coral Reef Monitoring Grant, part of the Coral Reef Initiative 1 Contents Acknowledgements 2 Abstract 3 Methods 6 Results 10 Reef Slopes 11 Individual Sites 18 Corals in Transects 22 Lifeforms 22 Genera 29 Species 36 Species Diversity 42 Reef Flats 46 Outer Flats 46 Trends at Individual Sites 50 Corals on outer reef flats 53 Lifeforms 53 Genera 56 Species 58 Inner Reef Flats 61 Individual Sites 64 Comparisons 67 Depth and Zonation 69 Coral Lifeforms 75 Genera 77 Species 79 Invertebrates 83 Water Clarity 93 Non-Point Pollution 95 Baselines 98 Crown-of-thorns 98 Red Tides in the Harbor 99 Seagrass 100 Major Disturbances 100 Table Coral Recruitment 101 Cloth Rags 104 Species 104 References 106 Acknowledgements Thank you to boat captain Mika Letuane. Thanks also to Ekueta Schuster for filling tanks and other support, and for DMWR enforcement for the use of their giant pickup to 2 pull the boat over the very steep pass to the boat ramp at Fagasa on the north side of Tutuila. Special thanks go to the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, for the use of the Sanctuary boat when the DMWR boat was not available. Abstract Benthic communities remain relatively healthy with moderate live coral cover, low macroalgae and no recently dead coral, and a small increase in live coral cover in 2008. -
Revised Constitution of American Samoa
AMERICAN SAMOA CONSTITUTION REVISED CONSTITUTION OF AMERICAN SAMOA Article I Bill of Rights Section 1. Freedom of religion, speech, press, rights of assembly and petition. 2. No deprivation of life, liberty or property without due process. 3. Policy protective legislation. 4. Dignity of the individual. 5. Protection against unreasonable searchesand seizures. 6. Rights of an accused. 7. Habeas corpus. 8. Quartering of militia. 9. Imprisonment for debt. 10. Slavery prohibited. 11. Treason. 12. Subversives ineligible to hold public office. 13. Retroactive laws and bills of attainder. 14. Health, safety, morals and general welfare. 15. Education. 16. Unspecified rights and privileges and immunities. Article II The Legislature 1. Legislature. 2. Membership. 3. Qualifications of members. 4. Manner of election. 5. Elections. 6. Term of office. 7. Qualifications of electors. 8. Legislative sessions. 9. Enactment of law; vetoes. 10. Passage of bills. 11. Powers of each house. 12. Freedom from arrest. 13. Vacancies. 14. Public sessions. 15. Reading-Passage of bills. 16. Title 17. Amendments and revisions by reference. 18. Appointment to new offices. 19. Effective date of laws. 20. Legislative counsel 21. Quorum. 22. Qualifications and officers. 23. Adjourning Legislature. 24. Special or exclusive privileges not to be granted; local or special laws. 25. Compensation of the Legislature. Article III Judicial Branch 1. Judicial power. 2. Independence of the courts. 3. Appointments. Article IV Executive Branch 1. Appointments. 2. Governor. 3. Secretary. 4. Secretary of Samoan Affairs. 5. Militia and posse comitatus. 6. Executive regulations. 7. Supervision and control by Governor. 8. Annual report. 9. Pardoning power. 10. Recommendation of laws. -
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey the October 28, 1979, Landsliding on Tutuila, American Samoa by Jane
United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey The October 28, 1979, Landsliding On Tutuila, American Samoa by Jane M. Buchanan-Banks Open-File Report 81-81 This report is preliminary and has not been edited or reviewed for conformity with U. S. Geological Survey editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature The October 28, 1979, Landsliding on Tutuila, American Samoa Abstract In an apparently short time interval in the early morning of October 28, 1979, more than 70 landslides occurred on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. They were confined to the western end of the island from Asili on the south shore to Massacre Bay on the north. One of the landslides in Seetaga caused four fatalities; the others caused property damage and blocked the main transportation route on the west end of the island. Although there were rumors of an earthquake immediately preceding the landsliding, an examination of the seismograph from Apia Observatory, Western Samoa, for the morning of October 28 shows no record of an earth quake. Heavy rains during the preceding few days coupled with the general ly steep slopes and deeply weathered geologic materials appear to have caused the slope failures. There is abundant evidence both visually and on aerial photographs taken in 1941 and 1960 that landslides are frequent occurrences in the effected area. It is recommended that an analysis be made of the regional slope stability relative to current and proposed land use practices. Such an analysis would include: 1) air photos taken at a scale of 1:24,000 for comparison with those taken previously to document areas of landsliding; 2) a study of the vegetative cover; 3) a slope map; and 4) a detailed geological and structural map.