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O'Rielly Notes American Samoa Pledges No 911 Fees Shifting

FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly praised American Samoa for not diverting 911 fees. His Wednesday letter thanked Gov. Lolo Moliga (D) for responding Feb. 13 to the Republican commissioner’s Feb. 3 letter asking why the territory failed to respond to FCC…

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requests for information about 911 fees (see 2002030019). Moliga sent a 2018 report and partly blamed staff turnover for the delay. “There are no 9-1-1 fees collected in American Samoa and thus no funds to divert,” the governor wrote. “Our 9-1-1 system is fully funded by our general fund and budgeted by the Department of Public Safety.”