March 31, 2021

MEMORANDUM

To:                    All Senators, Stakeholders and Media

From:               Speaker Therese M. Terlaje, Chairperson

    Committee on Health, Land, Justice and Culture

Subject:            NOTICE of Hybrid Public Hearing – Thursday, April 8, 2021 beginning at 3:00 PM

Håfa Adai,

Please be advised that the Committee on Health, Land, Justice and Culture will convene a public hearing on Thursday, April 8, 2021 beginning at 3:00 PM. utilizing a hybrid meeting format for combined face to face and virtual attendance. The hearing will be held in the Public Hearing Room at the Guam Congress Building, as well as utilizing the Guam Legislature’s virtual meeting platform, for the following agenda items:

§  Oversight Hearing on the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission, to receive updates on:

A. Identification of ancestral landowners of federal excess properties returned, designated for return, or requested to be returned to Guam pursuant to:

•       Department of Navy’s 2011Net Negative commitment and Navy’s June 2017_Report to Congress_Net Negative_Policy_Guam ;

•       2019 NDAA Section 2847;     

•       JRM Net Negative Inventory of Guam Land pursuant to 2019 NDAA

•       GEDA 2019 excess lands report and GEDA 2018 excess lands reports of potentially releasable federal lands (reports attached below); and

•       SECNAV Braithwaite Letter to Gov. Leon Guerrero on Excess Lands July 2, 2020   

B. Update on additions since 2011 to the  Guam Ancestral Lands Commission Excess Lands Registry. 

C. Update  on non-contacted beneficiaries of properties listed in GALC Excess Lands Registry or Conditional Awards Registry

D.Proposed Rules and Regulations for Land Bank Program extinguishment of claims, award of just compensation.  

ALL DOCUMENTS FOR THIS OVERSIGHT HEARING CAN BE ACCESSED AT THE HYPERLINKS ABOVE OR THROUGH ATTACHMENTS BELOW.

Ancestral Landowners are invited to provide live testimony. Please contact the Office of Speaker Therese M. Terlaje at 472-3586 or email senatorterlajeguam@gmail.com. Please indicate if you will be attending the hearing physically or virtually. Registration deadline is 5:00PM on Wednesday, April 7, 2021.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Individuals in need of assistance or accommodations should also contact the Office of Speaker Therese M. Terlaje.

The hearing will broadcast on local television, GTA Channel 21, Docomo Channel 117/60.4 or Channel 112-4 for Docomo customers without set top boxes. The hearing will also stream online via I Liheslaturan Guåhan’s live feed at http://www.guamlegislature.com/live_feed.htm.