The governor requested an emergency declaration ahead of the storm.

Specifically, emergency protective measures under FEMA's public assistance program.

About 50 of the agency's personnel are already on-island, with more headed our way.

FEMA spokesman Robert Barker said, "So if Guam were to need resources from DoD, from EPA, from HHS we can tape those resources and everything will be ready, on call, on standby, but if we need to activate we can activate immediately."

Barker said as soon as the storm passes, FEMA personnel will team up with GovGuam and local federal officials to do damage assessments.

"So we all go together as a team to assess damages, we receive reports from the locals," he said. "They're gonna indicate what damages occurred and push those up to the governor's office. We were gonna go out with the governor's office and homeland security to assess those damages, validate those damages and then determine what's eligible for public assistance."

GovGuam agencies such as the Department of Public Works and Guam Power Authority can get help in restoring public services.

Direct financial assistance to residents is also a possibility, although a presidential request has not been made yet.

"It's too early to tell, we're gonna do another assessment once the storm passes to see the impacts to homes and private residences," Barker said. "So, as of right now we don't have individual assistance activated but we're gonna do another assessment once the storm is through. Housing assistance in the form of rental assistance or assistance to help repair or even replace a home, but it all depends. It's on a case-by-case basis."

He says for businesses it would be the SBA to help, through assistance such as low-interest disaster loans.