Guam § 2101 - Duties and Responsibilities of the Guam State

§ 2101. Duties and Responsibilities of the Guam State

Clearinghouse.

In addition to the duties and responsibilities of the Guam

State Clearinghouse as may be prescribed by I Segundu Na

Maga’lahi [the Lieutenant Governor], or by law, the Guam State

Clearinghouse shall also have the following duties and

responsibilities:

(a) Administer the initiation, coordination and review

process of all governmental activities within the

government of Guam involving Federal financial assistance.

(b) Ensure that government grant proposals for

Federal assistance are in accordance with plans, policies,

programs, objectives and procedures of the government of

Guam.

(c) Ensure that proposed government projects for

which Federal financial assistance is sought are fiscally and

environmentally sound and are in compliance with all

applicable Federal laws.

(d) Ensure that the government of Guam complies

with all applicable Federal laws relating to Federal financial

assistance and that there exists sound tracking,

management, and financial accountability for all Federal

programs awarded to the government of Guam.

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(e) Perform cost analysis on all Federal aid programs,

grants, loans, contracts, contributions, advances, direct

Federal development or other Federal funding for the

financial impact on the government of Guam’s General

Fund or special funds used to fund the local matching

requirement as prescribed by Federal law; and the financial

impact on the government of Guam of continuing the

Federal program by the government of Guam if the Federal

funding expires. Said analysis shall describe the indirect

costs the grantee government agency is eligible for, the

amounts applied for and received from each grant, the

previous year’s funding level and funding estimate for

future years. Said analyses shall be performed as an integral

part of the state clearinghouse process and submitted to the

Speaker of I Liheslaturan Guåhan, the Chairperson of the

Special Accounting Service, the Chairperson of the Special

Economic Service, and the Director of the Bureau of Budget

and Management Research within fifteen (15) days after

completion. The cost analyses required hereby shall be

included in I Maga’lahi’s Executive Budget request

pursuant to Title 5 GCA § 4107(b).

(f) With the exception of the Judiciary of Guam, the

Guam Community College, the University of Guam, and

the Guam Department of Education, and notwithstanding

any other provision of law to the contrary, no application

for any Federal aid programs, grants, loans, contracts,

contributions, advances, direct Federal development, or

other Federal funding shall be submitted or deemed

approved on behalf of the government of Guam or any

agency, division, office, department or instrumentality

thereof, or any public corporation, without the final

approval of the Director of the Guam State Clearinghouse.

(g) The Judiciary of Guam, the Guam Community

College, the University of Guam, and the Guam Department

of Education shall provide a courtesy electronic or written

copy of each grant application to the Guam State

Clearinghouse and I Liheslaturan Guåhan. Copies of all

communications between the Federal government grantor

agency relative to the grant application process with the

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Judiciary of Guam, the Guam Community College, the

University of Guam, or the Guam Department of Education,

including all subsequent communications regarding the

implementation and execution of the grant award, shall also

be provided to the Guam State Clearinghouse and I

Liheslaturan Guåhan.