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The intent of the National Solid and hazardous waste policy of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is to build on this foundation and direction by providing the Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap State Governments and their communities clear guidance and support to enable its realization. By doing this, solid and hazardous wastes will be managed with compliantly, safely and responsively for the benefit of both the environment and the people of the FSM.

The National Waste Management Strategy acknowledges and seeks to enable the FSM States to continue delivery of their individual solid waste management strategies and recognises that effective management of solid and hazardous wastes is everyone's responsibility. At the heart of this lay collaboration and teamwork - key values that will drive a successful shift towards sustainable waste and resource management.

The purpose to employ a GIS and remote sensing specialist is the visualisation and quantitative documentation of climate change adaptation actions impact.

Improved access to and management to climate change and disaster risk finance is a key priority for the Government of Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). This is critical for achieving national and individual state strategic outcomes related to disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the context of resilient and sustainable development for the people of FSM.

Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is one of the four countries that cooperated with the field testing of an impacts analysis methodology, to profile recent history of climate change adaptation work sourced from recently completed projects.

This assessment has been prepared by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme’s (SPREP) EU-funded PacWastePlus programme (PacWaste Plus or ‘Programme’), drawing upon reporting developed by the University of Melbourne (UoM) on behalf of PacWastePlus for that programme’s Waste Legislative Review project. The UoM team reviewed legislation relevant to waste management in 14 Pacific region countries and Timor-Leste. Separate assessments are provided for each of the PacWastePlus participating countries.

In August 2001 a State of Emergency was declared in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) following a significant oil spill from the USS Mississinewa, a sunken WWII US military oil tanker, in the remote and environmentally sensitive atoll known as Ulithi Lagoon.

FSM national overarching legislation, policies and strategic development plans that framework for solid waste management for the country. However, in practice State laws and regulations play a key role in regulating waste management.

Pacific island countries are increasingly exposed to series of environmental hazards that threaten the health of the Pacific islands communities and its natural environment. Climate change tops the list of big issues across all island groups, while local environment battles are being waged over deforestation, land and sea mining, urban migration, infrastructure deelopment and population growth. These brings with its environmental issues such as waste pollution, invasive species, unsafe water, poor sanitation, air pollution, hazardous chemicals and occupational hazards which contributes to poor livelihood.

This report covers the State of Yap component of a project involving used oil audits in selected Pacific Island countries. The objective of the audits is to establish volumes of lubricating, hydraulic and transmission oils imported annually into each country and the volumes of used oil produced, stored or otherwise disposed. The work has been carried out by Contract Environmental Ltd under a contract to the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), with funding provided by the Global Environment Facility. Most of the information required for the audit has been obtained in a country visit undertaken by Martyn O’Cain from 1 June to 8 June 2014 and was organised through the local Environmental Protection Agency in Yap.