Title 12 — Autonomous Agencies

The Legislature hereby finds and determines that loans made pursuant to 12 GCA, Chapter 72 (P.L. 16-111, Chapter II, Section 21) are not adequate to address the need of landowners to pursue appropriate remedies to redress the harm done to landowners as individuals and to Guam as …

(a) Landowner means the government of Guam and any person who has or whose predecessors in interest had beneficial ownership of any land interest on Guam which interest was adversely affected by taking of the Naval Government of Guam or the United States Government between July 2…

There is created the Landowner=s Recovery Fund to further the purposes of 21 GCA Chapter 80, to grant loans, or guarantees of loans or grants-in-aid to landowners, or to defer costs or fees of professional services required by those landowners or class of landowners whose land, r…

The sum of Two Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($220,000) is appropriated from the General Fund to the Landowner’s Recovery Fund for the uses specified in this Chapter. Additionally, there is authorized to be appropriated by legislative enactment Four Hundred Ninety-Five Thousand…

The Board of Directors of the Guam Economic Development Authority shall be the administering authority of the Landowner’s Recovery Fund and shall administer the Fund and make loans therefrom. The Board shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary for the operation of the …

There shall only be one (1) class of loan which may only be used by the attorneys for a land owner for necessary fees, costs and expenses, including expenses of expert witnesses and other consultants, in connection with prosecution of claims for redress of damages or restoration …

To be eligible for loans under this Chapter an applicant shall be a landowner as defined in § 74106(a) of this Chapter.

All loans extended under this Chapter shall comply with the following standards and conditions: (a) Application for Assistance. Any landowner may apply for a loan of funds by setting forth on an application form authorized by the Authority a statement showing: COL120106 (i) name …

Any money remaining in the Land Claims Loan Revolving Fund established under 12 GCA Chapter 72 (P.L. 16-111, Chapter II, Section 21) shall be transferred to the Landowner’s Recovery Fund established by this Chapter.

The revenues obtained by the government pursuant to the license fee imposed by 11 GCA § 22202 shall be a source of funding for the appropriation made in § 74108 of this Chapter.

Any appraiser who is owed money by land claimants shall file a list of such land claimants and the amount of the debt with the Authority. Such statements shall be confidential except that the Authority may COL120106 inform a land claimant who makes application under this Chapter …

Chapter. The purpose of the enactment of § 74116 through § 74122 of this Chapter is to supplement and further the aims established under Chapter 72 of this Division. The Legislature finds and declares: (a) That the portion of Route 3 known as the Ritidian Spur, running from Potts…

(a) Two Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($220,000) are appropriated from the General Fund to the Landowner’s Recovery Fund for the uses specified in this Chapter. (b) Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) are appropriated from the General Fund to the general operating fun…

(a) Four Hundred Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($495,000) are hereby authorized to be appropriated from the General Fund to the Landowners Recovery Fund for the uses specified in this Chapter. (b) Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000) are hereby authorized to be appropri…

The Authority is authorized to grant to private landowners or otherwise create such easements and rights-of-way across Lot No. P04.1, Machanao, as in its discretion are required to increase the use and enjoyment and facilitate the development of private property adjacent to Lot N…

The Guam Environmental Protection Agency is hereby directed to carefully study, determine and then report to the Legislature the full scope of the adverse environmental impact of unclean, unsafe military hazardous waste dump sites following a study to be performed under COL120106…

The Authority is directed to produce an economic impact appraisal study to appraise the impact of undue military restriction upon peaceful civilian access to the development of public and private landlocked parcels in Northwest Guam. The Authority is authorized to use funds appro…

Authority’s Receipt of Damage Claims Awards. Upon determination of the adverse economic impact and damage done private landowners and the government of Guam resulting from long term loss of use due to unduly restricted access and the maintenance of unsafe land polluting dumps, th…

(a) Mandate to obtain services. The Authority shall represent the government of Guam as the real party in interest to maintain any appropriate cause of action for claims for return of public rights-of-way, for damages or injunctive relief or any other cause of action or appropria…

Sections 74112 through 73120 of this Chapter shall be known and may be cited as The Northwest Territory of Guam Act. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 20-222:11.

The Authority shall hire or retain an attorney or law firm specifically to prosecute legal action on behalf of the people of Guam as specified in § 74119 of this Chapter. The attorney or law firm retained by the Authority may hire, within the level of appropriation made available…

Facilitate Land Claims. The Guam Ancestral Lands Commission is hereby authorized to use funds from the Landowner=s Recovery Fund to facilitate land claims and to further the purposes of the provisions of 21 GCA Chapter 80, and 12 GCA Chapters 72 and 74, as follows: 1. to assist i…