A $200 million new hospital at Tafuna, a $50 million expansion of the territory's only hospital at Faga'alu, $40 million to stop a water system losing 60% of what it treats, and a $37.6 million federal broadband build headline American Samoa's short, ARPA-era public pipeline.
*How to read the total: the sum of the published figures in the list below. Bases differ by project — most are total cost estimates, some are federal grants, program totals, or construction contracts as awarded. Each project's expanded view labels its own basis. We add them up with the labels showing rather than pretend they're all the same kind of number.
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8 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to $415,371,101 (≈$415.4M) — and one record dominates it: the $200M new hospital at Tafuna is nearly half the page. Bases differ and are labelled on every record: ARPA allocations published in the territory's own Recovery Plan reports, federal grant awards (FAA, EPA, NTIA BEAD) and one territorial capital-projects figure. Owner mapping for this territory, per the series rule: the American Samoa Government and its authorities (ASPA, ASTCA, LBJ Tropical Medical Center, the Department of Health, the Department of Port Administration and ASCC) are the state-equivalent public owner and are levelled "state"; no record on this page is levelled federal, because in every case the constructing owner is an ASG entity spending federal money — the federal role is printed in funding_sources instead.
Why this list is short, said plainly: American Samoa has about 45,000–50,000 people, one commercial port, one international airport and one hospital, and its publication environment is thin — ASG publishes figures mainly inside its annual ARPA Recovery Plan reports and in federal grant announcements relayed by the territory's congressional office, and most capital work arrives in small DOI Capital Improvement Project tranches (American Samoa's baseline CIP share is about $10M a year across ALL projects). A majors list built on a $10M published-figure floor therefore captures a handful of ARPA-era programmes and federal grants, not a pipeline of the mainland kind. That shortness is the finding, not a gap in the research.
No 2026 completion is listed. No American Samoa public project above the floor could be verified as opened or completed in 2026 from the sources available: the DOH ARPA projects carry a December 2026 deadline (a deadline is not an opening), and the 2025 Recovery Plan's 2025–2026 completion window for the ASPA water programme is a plan window, not a completion announcement. Completed in a prior year, however large, and excluded on that basis: the Hawaiki submarine cable landing at Pago Pago (2018 — the cable that first brought high-capacity international broadband to the territory); the Satala power plant rebuild (completed circa 2017); and the Ta'u solar-plus-storage microgrid (2016 — 1.4 MW of solar and Tesla battery storage that took Ta'u to near-100% renewable electricity; its Ofu/Olosega counterparts are of the same era).
Deliberately excluded — private builds, however large: StarKist Samoa, the territory's largest private employer — its cannery plant and any works there are private and off this page by rule. The same rule excludes the two USDA-financed Tutuila solar farms that dominate current energy construction news: Mana Solar LLC's 13.4 MW community solar and battery project (a $23.5M USDA investment, about $35.5M combined with Banana Solar LLC's farm, announced December 2024) — both are private LLC developers selling power to ASPA, so they are named here rather than listed, even though ASPA will integrate their output (ASPA has described a 20 MW Pava'ia'i solar integration). Below the $10M floor, named not listed: the Port of Pago Pago reconstruction (a $1M House-passed appropriation in 2026 and a $5M FY2027 community-project request — the territory's sole deep-draft port has documented Main Wharf and Container Wharf deterioration and load restrictions, but no published project figure above the floor exists); LBJ's electronic health record project ($12,893,987 of ARPA funding in the territory's Recovery Plan inventory — above the floor in dollars but a software and equipment procurement, not a building, so excluded on type and named here); the Fagaima flood-mitigation project (a $3,165,019 FEMA grant covering 37% of cost, implying a total under the floor); the ASCC Multi-Purpose Center (DOI CIP-funded, under construction per the college — no published figure above the floor could be verified); Manu'a harbour and wharf works at Ofu and Ta'u (small CIP design and improvement tranches only); and the Ronald Reagan Shipyard (ASG-owned — no individually priced works above the floor verified).
News-flag disclosures: two records rest partly on news or analysis reporting of official figures rather than a directly opened official document — the ASPA water programme's $40M figure (the territory's 2025 Recovery Plan as reported and quoted by Tala Mai Le Tau in October 2026) and the runway overlay's construction status (the contractor's own award announcement). Both are flagged on their records. ASG's proposed $100M airport financing arrangement involving McKinley Investment LLC, reported by Talanei in September 2026, is NOT counted anywhere on this page: reporting itself stresses the instalments are proposed disbursements, not confirmed receipts, and no project figure has been published by ASG.