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Union Calendar No. 775
118THCONGRESS
2
DSESSION H. J. RES. 96
[Report No. 118–785, Part I]
To approve the 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-FSM Compact, and
related agreements, between the Government of the United States of
America and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia,
the 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact, and certain
related agreements between the Government of the United States of
America and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands,
and the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement between the Gov-
ernment of the United States of America and the Government of the
Republic of Palau, to appropriate funds to carry out the agreements,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER2, 2023
Mr. W
ESTERMAN(for himself, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MEEKS, and Mr. MCCAUL)
introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on For-
eign Affairs, Education and the Workforce, Veterans’ Affairs, Oversight
and Accountability, Agriculture, and Ways and Means, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned
D
ECEMBER3, 2024
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources
D
ECEMBER3, 2024
Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Education and the Workforce discharged
D
ECEMBER3, 2024
Referral to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs, Oversight and Account-
ability, Agriculture, and Ways and Means extended for a period ending
not later than December 19, 2024
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DECEMBER19, 2024
Additional sponsors: Mrs. K
IMof California, Mr. BERA, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr.
C
ASE, Ms. HAGEMAN, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. BARR, Ms. PORTER, Mrs.
R
ADEWAGEN, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. WOMACK, Ms. LEEof Nevada, Mr.
M
OOREof Utah, Mr. SHERMAN, Mrs. BICE, Mr. LARSENof Washington,
Mrs. K
IGGANSof Virginia, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr.
M
OULTON, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Ms. TITUS, Mrs. HINSON, Ms. LEGER
F
ERNANDEZ, Mr. CISCOMANI, Mr. LIEU, Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. JOYCEof
Ohio, Mr. F
ITZGERALD, Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. WALTZ, Mr. MCCORMICK,
Mr. B
URCHETT, Mr. D’ESPOSITO, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, Ms.
W
ASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. STANSBURY and Ms.
V
ELA´ZQUEZ
D
ECEMBER19, 2024
Committees on Veterans’ Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, Agriculture,
and Ways and Means discharged; committed to the Committee of the
Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
JOINT RESOLUTION
To approve the 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-FSM
Compact, and related agreements, between the Govern-
ment of the United States of America and the Govern-
ment of the Federated States of Micronesia, the 2023
Agreement to Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact, and cer-
tain related agreements between the Government of the
United States of America and the Government of the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 2023 U.S.-
Palau Compact Review Agreement between the Govern-
ment of the United States of America and the Govern-
ment of the Republic of Palau, to appropriate funds
to carry out the agreements, and for other purposes.
Whereas the United States (in accordance with the Trustee-
ship Agreement for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Is-
lands, the United Nations Charter, and the objectives of
the international trusteeship system of the United Na-
tions) fulfilled its obligations to promote the development
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of the people of the Trust Territory toward self-govern-
ment or independence, as appropriate, to the particular
circumstances of the Trust Territory and the people of
the Trust Territory and the freely expressed wishes of
the people concerned;
Whereas the United States, the Federated States of Micro-
nesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands entered
into the Compact of Free Association set forth in section
201 of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (48
U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 99–239) and the United
States and the Republic of Palau entered into the Com-
pact of Free Association set forth in section 201 of Pub-
lic Law 99–658 (48 U.S.C. 1931 note) to create and
maintain a close and mutually beneficial relationship;
Whereas the ‘‘Compact of Free Association, as amended, be-
tween the Government of the United States of America
and the Government of the Federated States of Micro-
nesia’’, the ‘‘Compact of Free Association, as amended,
between the Government of the United States of America
and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Is-
lands’’, and related agreements were signed by the Gov-
ernment of the United States and the Governments of
the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of
the Marshall Islands and approved, as applicable, by sec-
tion 201 of the Compact of Free Association Amend-
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 note; Public Law
108–188);
Whereas the ‘‘Agreement between the Government of the
United States of America and the Government of the Re-
public of Palau Following the Compact of Free Associa-
tion Section 432 Review’’, was signed by the Government
of the United States and the Government of the Republic
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of Palau on September 3, 2010, and amended on Sep-
tember 19, 2018;
Whereas, on May 22, 2023, the United States signed the
‘‘Agreement between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of the Republic
of Palau Resulting From the 2023 Compact of Free As-
sociation Section 432 Review’’;
Whereas, on May 23, 2023, the United States signed 3
agreements related to the U.S.-FSM Compact of Free
Association, including an Agreement to Amend the Com-
pact, as amended, a new fiscal procedures agreement,
and a new trust fund agreement and on September 28,
2023, the United States signed a Federal Programs and
Services agreement related to the U.S.-FSM Compact of
Free Association; and
Whereas, on October 16, 2023, the United States signed 3
agreements relating to the U.S.-RMI Compact of Free
Association, including an Agreement to Amend the Com-
pact, as amended, a new fiscal procedures agreement,
and a new trust fund agreement: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives1
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This joint resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Compact 4
of Free Association Amendments Act of 2023’’. 5
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6
In this joint resolution: 7
(1) 1986
COMPACT.—The term ‘‘1986 Com-8
pact’’ means the Compact of Free Association be-9
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tween the Government of the United States and the 1
Governments of the Marshall Islands and the Fed-2
erated States of Micronesia set forth in section 201 3
of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (48 4
U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 99–239). 5
(2) 2003
AMENDED U.S.-FSM COMPACT.—The 6
term ‘‘2003 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact’’ means 7
the Compact of Free Association amending the 1986 8
Compact entitled the ‘‘Compact of Free Association, 9
as amended, between the Government of the United 10
States of America and the Government of the Fed-11
erated States of Micronesia’’ set forth in section 12
201(a) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-13
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 note; Public 14
Law 108–188). 15
(3) 2003
AMENDED U.S.-RMI COMPACT.—The 16
term ‘‘2003 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact’’ means 17
the Compact of Free Association amending the 1986 18
Compact entitled ‘‘Compact of Free Association, as 19
amended, between the Government of the United 20
States of America and the Government of the Re-21
public of the Marshall Islands’’ set forth in section 22
201(b) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-23
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 note; Public 24
Law 108–188). 25
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(4) 2023 AGREEMENT TO AMEND THE U .S.-FSM 1
COMPACT.—The term ‘‘2023 Agreement to Amend 2
the U.S.-FSM Compact’’ means the Agreement be-3
tween the Government of the United States of 4
America and the Government of the Federated 5
States of Micronesia to Amend the Compact of Free 6
Association, as Amended, done at Palikir May 23, 7
2023. 8
(5) 2023
AGREEMENT TO AMEND THE U .S.-RMI 9
COMPACT.—The term ‘‘2023 Agreement to Amend 10
the U.S.-RMI Compact’’ means the Agreement be-11
tween the Government of the United States of 12
America and the Government of the Republic of the 13
Marshall Islands to Amend the Compact of Free As-14
sociation, as Amended, done at Honolulu October 15
16, 2023. 16
(6) 2023
AMENDED U.S.-FSM COMPACT.—The 17
term ‘‘2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact’’ means 18
the 2003 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, as amended 19
by the 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-FSM 20
Compact. 21
(7) 2023
AMENDED U.S.-RMI COMPACT.—The 22
term ‘‘2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact’’ means 23
the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, as amended 24
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by the 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-RMI 1
Compact. 2
(8) 2023
U.S.-FSM FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND 3
SERVICES AGREEMENT .—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-FSM 4
Federal Programs and Services Agreement’’ means 5
the 2023 Federal Programs and Services Agreement 6
between the Government of the United States of 7
America and the Government of the Federated 8
States of Micronesia, done at Washington September 9
28, 2023. 10
(9) 2023
U.S.-FSM FISCAL PROCEDURES AGREE -11
MENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Proce-12
dures Agreement’’ means the Agreement Concerning 13
Procedures for the Implementation of United States 14
Economic Assistance provided in the 2023 Amended 15
U.S.-FSM Compact between the Government of the 16
United States of America and the Government of 17
the Federated States of Micronesia, done at Palikir 18
May 23, 2023. 19
(10) 2023
U.S.-FSM TRUST FUND AGREE -20
MENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-FSM Trust Fund 21
Agreement’’ means the Agreement between the Gov-22
ernment of the United States of America and the 23
Government of the Federated States of Micronesia 24
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Regarding the Compact Trust Fund, done at Palikir 1
May 23, 2023. 2
(11) 2023
U.S.-PALAU COMPACT REVIEW 3
AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 4
Review Agreement’’ means the Agreement between 5
the Government of the United States of America 6
and the Government of the Republic of Palau Re-7
sulting From the 2023 Compact of Free Association 8
Section 432 Review, done at Port Moresby May 22, 9
2023. 10
(12) 2023
U.S.-RMI FISCAL PROCEDURES 11
AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal 12
Procedures Agreement’’ means the Agreement Con-13
cerning Procedures for the Implementation of 14
United States Economic Assistance Provided in the 15
2023 Amended Compact Between the Government of 16
the United States of America and the Government 17
of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, done at 18
Honolulu October 16, 2023. 19
(13) 2023
U.S.-RMI TRUST FUND AGREE -20
MENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-RMI Trust Fund 21
Agreement’’ means the Agreement between the Gov-22
ernment of the United States of America and the 23
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands 24
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Regarding the Compact Trust Fund, done at Hono-1
lulu October 16, 2023. 2
(14) A
PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -3
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-4
gress’’ means— 5
(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 6
Resources of the Senate; 7
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 8
the Senate; 9
(C) the Committee on Natural Resources 10
of the House of Representatives; and 11
(D) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 12
the House of Representatives. 13
(15) F
REELY ASSOCIATED STATES .—The term 14
‘‘Freely Associated States’’ means— 15
(A) the Federated States of Micronesia; 16
(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands; 17
and 18
(C) the Republic of Palau. 19
(16) S
UBSIDIARY AGREEMENT .—The term 20
‘‘subsidiary agreement’’ means any of the following: 21
(A) The 2023 U.S.-FSM Federal Pro-22
grams and Services Agreement. 23
(B) The 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Proce-24
dures Agreement. 25
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(C) The 2023 U.S.-FSM Trust Fund 1
Agreement. 2
(D) The 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 3
Agreement. 4
(E) The 2023 U.S.-RMI Trust Fund 5
Agreement. 6
(F) Any Federal Programs and Services 7
Agreement in force between the United States 8
and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. 9
(G) Any Federal Programs and Services 10
Agreement in force between the United States 11
and the Republic of Palau. 12
(H) Any other agreements that the United 13
States may from time-to-time enter into with 14
the Government of the Federated States of Mi-15
cronesia, the Government of the Republic of 16
Palau, or the Government of the Republic of 17
the Marshall Islands, in accordance with— 18
(i) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 19
Compact; 20
(ii) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Re-21
view Agreement; or 22
(iii) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 23
Compact. 24
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(17) U.S.-PALAU COMPACT.—The term ‘‘U.S.- 1
Palau Compact’’ means the Compact of Free Asso-2
ciation between the United States and the Govern-3
ment of Palau set forth in section 201 of Public 4
Law 99–658 (48 U.S.C. 1931 note). 5
SEC. 3. APPROVAL OF 2023 AGREEMENT TO AMEND THE 6
U.S.-FSM COMPACT, 2023 AGREEMENT TO 7
AMEND THE U.S.-RMI COMPACT, 2023 U.S.- 8
PALAU COMPACT REVIEW AGREEMENT, AND 9
SUBSIDIARY AGREEMENTS. 10
(a) F
EDERATEDSTATES OFMICRONESIA.— 11
(1) A
PPROVAL.—The 2023 Agreement to 12
Amend the U.S.-FSM Compact and the 2023 U.S.- 13
FSM Trust Fund Agreement, as submitted to Con-14
gress on June 15, 2023, are approved and incor-15
porated by reference. 16
(2) C
ONSENT OF CONGRESS .—Congress con-17
sents to— 18
(A) the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Procedures 19
Agreement, as submitted to Congress on June 20
15, 2023; and 21
(B) the 2023 U.S.-FSM Federal Programs 22
and Services Agreement. 23
(3) A
UTHORITY OF PRESIDENT .—Notwith-24
standing section 101(f) of the Compact of Free As-25
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sociation Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1
1921(f)), the President is authorized to bring into 2
force and implement the agreements described in 3
paragraphs (1) and (2). 4
(b) R
EPUBLIC OF THEMARSHALLISLANDS.— 5
(1) A
PPROVAL.—The 2023 Agreement to 6
Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact and the 2023 U.S.- 7
RMI Trust Fund Agreement, as submitted to Con-8
gress on October 17, 2023, are approved and incor-9
porated by reference. 10
(2) C
ONSENT OF CONGRESS .—Congress con-11
sents to the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 12
Agreement as submitted to Congress on October 17, 13
2023. 14
(3) A
UTHORITY OF PRESIDENT .—Notwith-15
standing section 101(f) of the Compact of Free As-16
sociation Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 17
1921(f)), the President is authorized to bring into 18
force and implement the agreements described in 19
paragraphs (1) and (2). 20
(c) R
EPUBLIC OFPALAU.— 21
(1) A
PPROVAL.—The 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 22
Review Agreement, as submitted to Congress on 23
June 15, 2023, is approved. 24
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(2) AUTHORITY OF PRESIDENT .—The President 1
is authorized to bring into force and implement the 2
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement. 3
(d) A
MENDMENTS, CHANGES, ORTERMINATION TO 4
C
OMPACTS ANDCERTAINAGREEMENTS.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any amendment to, change 6
to, or termination of all or any part of the 2023 7
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, 2023 Amended U.S.- 8
RMI Compact, or the U.S.-Palau Compact, by mu-9
tual agreement or unilateral action of the Govern-10
ment of the United States, shall not enter into force 11
until the date on which Congress has incorporated 12
the applicable amendment, change, or termination 13
into an Act of Congress. 14
(2) A
DDITIONAL ACTIONS AND AGREEMENTS .— 15
In addition to the Compacts described in paragraph 16
(1), the requirements of that paragraph shall apply 17
to— 18
(A) any action of the Government of the 19
United States under the 2023 Amended U.S.- 20
FSM Compact, 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Com-21
pact, or U.S.-Palau Compact, including an ac-22
tion taken pursuant to section 431, 441, or 442 23
of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, 24
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2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or U.S.- 1
Palau Compact; 2
(B) any amendment to, change to, or ter-3
mination of— 4
(i) the agreement described in section 5
462(a)(2) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 6
Compact; 7
(ii) the agreement described in section 8
462(a)(5) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 9
Compact; 10
(iii) an agreement concluded pursuant 11
to section 265 of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 12
FSM Compact; 13
(iv) an agreement concluded pursuant 14
to section 265 of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 15
RMI Compact; 16
(v) an agreement concluded pursuant 17
to section 177 of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 18
RMI Compact; 19
(vi) Articles III and IV of the agree-20
ment described in section 462(b)(6) of the 21
2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 22
(vii) Articles III, IV, and X of the 23
agreement described in section 462(b)(6) 24
of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; 25
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(viii) the agreement described in sec-1
tion 462(h) of the U.S.-Palau Compact; 2
and 3
(ix) Articles VI, XV, and XVII of the 4
agreement described in section 462(b)(7) 5
of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact 6
and 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact 7
and section 462(i) of the U.S.-Palau Com-8
pact. 9
(e) E
NTRYINTOFORCE OFFUTUREAMENDMENTS 10
TOSUBSIDIARYAGREEMENTS.—An agreement between 11
the United States and the Government of the Federated 12
States of Micronesia, the Government of the Republic of 13
the Marshall Islands, or the Government of the Republic 14
of Palau that would amend, change, or terminate any sub-15
sidiary agreement or portion of a subsidiary agreement 16
(other than an amendment to, change to, or termination 17
of an agreement described in subsection (d)) shall not 18
enter into force until the date that is 90 days after the 19
date on which the President has transmitted to the Presi-20
dent of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Rep-21
resentatives— 22
(1) the agreement to amend, change, or termi-23
nate the subsidiary agreement; 24
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(2) an explanation of the amendment, change, 1
or termination; 2
(3) a description of the reasons for the amend-3
ment, change, or termination; and 4
(4) in the case of an agreement that would 5
amend, change, or terminate any agreement de-6
scribed in section 462(b)(3) of the 2023 Amended 7
U.S.-FSM Compact or the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 8
Compact, a statement by the Secretary of Labor 9
that describes— 10
(A) the necessity of the amendment, 11
change, or termination; and 12
(B) any impacts of the amendment, 13
change, or termination. 14
SEC. 4. AGREEMENTS WITH FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO-15
NESIA. 16
(a) L
AWENFORCEMENTASSISTANCE.— 17
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Pursuant to sections 222 18
and 224 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, 19
the United States shall provide nonreimbursable 20
technical and training assistance, as appropriate, in-21
cluding training and equipment for postal inspection 22
of illicit drugs and other contraband, to enable the 23
Government of the Federated States of Micronesia— 24
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(A) to develop and adequately enforce laws 1
of the Federated States of Micronesia; and 2
(B) to cooperate with the United States in 3
the enforcement of criminal laws of the United 4
States. 5
(2) U
SE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS .—Funds ap-6
propriated pursuant to subsection (j) of section 105 7
of the Compact of Free Association Amendments 8
Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d) (as amended by sec-9
tion 8(j)) may be used in accordance with section 10
102(a) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-11
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921a(a)). 12
(b) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOJOINTECO-13
NOMICMANAGEMENTCOMMITTEE.— 14
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 3 United States ap-15
pointees (which are composed of the United States 16
chair and 2 other members from the Government of 17
the United States) to the Joint Economic Manage-18
ment Committee established under section 213 of 19
the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact (referred to 20
in this subsection as the ‘‘Committee’’) shall— 21
(A) be voting members of the Committee; 22
and 23
(B) continue to be officers or employees of 24
the Federal Government. 25
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(2) TERM; APPOINTMENT.—The 3 United 1
States members of the Committee described in para-2
graph (1) shall be appointed for a term of 2 years 3
as follows: 4
(A) 1 member shall be appointed by the 5
Secretary of State, in consultation with the Sec-6
retary of the Treasury. 7
(B) 1 member shall be appointed by the 8
Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with 9
the Secretary of the Treasury. 10
(C) 1 member shall be appointed by the 11
Interagency Group on Freely Associated States 12
established under section 7(d)(1). 13
(3) R
EAPPOINTMENT.—A United States mem-14
ber of the Committee appointed under paragraph (2) 15
may be reappointed for not more than 2 additional 16
2-year terms. 17
(4) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—Not fewer than 2 18
United States members of the Committee appointed 19
under paragraph (2) shall be individuals who— 20
(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 21
training, are especially qualified in accounting, 22
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, grant ad-23
ministration, program management, or inter-24
national economics; and 25
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(B) possess not less than 5 years of full- 1
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 2
analysis, compliance, grant administration, pro-3
gram management, or international economics. 4
(5) N
OTICE.— 5
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 6
after the date of appointment of a United 7
States member of the Committee under para-8
graph (2), the Secretary of the Interior shall 9
notify the appropriate committees of Congress 10
that an individual has been appointed as a vot-11
ing member of the Committee under that para-12
graph, including a statement prepared by the 13
Secretary of the Interior attesting to the quali-14
fications of the member described in paragraph 15
(4), subject to subparagraph (B). 16
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—For purposes of a 17
statement required under subparagraph (A)— 18
(i) in the case of a member appointed 19
under paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary of 20
the Interior shall compile information on 21
the member provided to the Secretary of 22
the Interior by the Secretary of State on 23
request of the Secretary of the Interior; 24
and 25
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(ii) in the case of a member appointed 1
under paragraph (2)(C), the Secretary of 2
the Interior shall compile information on 3
the member provided to the Secretary of 4
the Interior by the Interagency Group on 5
Freely Associated States established under 6
section 7(d)(1) on request of the Secretary 7
of the Interior. 8
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 9
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-10
ceives or completes any report required under the 11
2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related 12
subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 13
shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-14
tees of Congress. 15
(7) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 16
days after the date on which the Government of the 17
Federated States of Micronesia submits to the Com-18
mittee a report required under the 2023 Amended 19
U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related subsidiary agree-20
ment, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to 21
the appropriate committees of Congress— 22
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-23
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 24
report is complete and accurate; or 25
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(B) if the report is not submitted by the 1
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-2
port has not been timely submitted. 3
(c) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOJOINTTRUST 4
F
UNDCOMMITTEE.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 3 United States voting 6
members (which are composed of the United States 7
chair and 2 other members from the Government of 8
the United States) to the Joint Trust Fund Com-9
mittee established pursuant to the agreement de-10
scribed in section 462(b)(5) of the 2023 Amended 11
U.S.-FSM Compact (referred to in this subsection as 12
the ‘‘Committee’’) shall continue to be officers or 13
employees of the Federal Government. 14
(2) T
ERM; APPOINTMENT.—The 3 United 15
States members of the Committee described in para-16
graph (1) shall be appointed for a term not more 17
than 2 years as follows: 18
(A) 1 member shall be appointed by the 19
Secretary of State. 20
(B) 1 member shall be appointed by the 21
Secretary of the Interior. 22
(C) 1 member shall be appointed by the 23
Secretary of the Treasury. 24
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(3) REAPPOINTMENT.—A United States mem-1
ber of the Committee appointed under paragraph (2) 2
may be reappointed for not more than 2 additional 3
2-year terms. 4
(4) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—Not fewer than 2 mem-5
bers of the Committee appointed under paragraph 6
(2) shall be individuals who— 7
(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 8
training, are especially qualified in accounting, 9
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, financial 10
investment, grant administration, program 11
management, or international economics; and 12
(B) possess not less than 5 years of full- 13
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 14
analysis, compliance, financial investment, 15
grant administration, program management, or 16
international economics. 17
(5) N
OTICE.— 18
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 19
after the date of appointment of a United 20
States member to the Committee under para-21
graph (2), the Secretary of the Interior shall 22
notify the appropriate committees of Congress 23
that an individual has been appointed as a vot-24
ing member of the Committee under that para-25
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graph, including a statement attesting to the 1
qualifications of the member described in para-2
graph (4), subject to subparagraph (B). 3
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—For purposes of a 4
statement required under subparagraph (A)— 5
(i) in the case of a member appointed 6
under paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary of 7
the Interior shall compile information on 8
the member provided to the Secretary of 9
the Interior by the Secretary of State on 10
request of the Secretary of the Interior; 11
and 12
(ii) in the case of a member appointed 13
under paragraph (2)(C), the Secretary of 14
the Interior shall compile information on 15
the member provided to the Secretary of 16
the Interior by the Secretary of the Treas-17
ury on request of the Secretary of the Inte-18
rior. 19
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 20
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-21
ceives or completes any report required under the 22
2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related 23
subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 24
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shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-1
tees of Congress. 2
(7) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 3
days after the date on which the Government of the 4
Federated States of Micronesia submits to the Com-5
mittee a report required under the 2023 Amended 6
U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related subsidiary agree-7
ment, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to 8
the appropriate committees of Congress— 9
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-10
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 11
report is complete and accurate; or 12
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 13
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-14
port has not been timely submitted. 15
SEC. 5. AGREEMENTS WITH AND OTHER PROVISIONS RE-16
LATED TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL 17
ISLANDS. 18
(a) L
AWENFORCEMENTASSISTANCE.— 19
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Pursuant to sections 222 20
and 224 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, 21
the United States shall provide nonreimbursable 22
technical and training assistance, as appropriate, in-23
cluding training and equipment for postal inspection 24
of illicit drugs and other contraband, to enable the 25
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Government of the Republic of the Marshall Is-1
lands— 2
(A) to develop and adequately enforce laws 3
of the Marshall Islands; and 4
(B) to cooperate with the United States in 5
the enforcement of criminal laws of the United 6
States. 7
(2) U
SE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS .—Funds ap-8
propriated pursuant to subsection (j) of section 105 9
of the Compact of Free Association Amendments 10
Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d) (as amended by sec-11
tion 8(j)) may be used in accordance with section 12
103(a) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-13
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(a)). 14
(b) E
SPOUSALPROVISIONS.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Congress reaffirms that— 16
(A) section 103(g)(1) of the Compact of 17
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 18
1903(g)(1)) and section 103(e)(1) of the Com-19
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 20
2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(e)(1)) provided that ‘‘It 21
is the intention of the Congress of the United 22
States that the provisions of section 177 of the 23
Compact of Free Association and the Agree-24
ment between the Government of the United 25
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States and the Government of the Marshall Is-1
lands for the Implementation of Section 177 of 2
the Compact (hereafter in this subsection re-3
ferred to as the ‘Section 177 Agreement’) con-4
stitute a full and final settlement of all claims 5
described in Articles X and XI of the Section 6
177 Agreement, and that any such claims be 7
terminated and barred except insofar as pro-8
vided for in the Section 177 Agreement.’’; and 9
(B) section 103(g)(2) of the Compact of 10
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 11
1903(g)(2)) and section 103(e)(2) of the Com-12
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 13
2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(e)(2)) provided that 14
‘‘In furtherance of the intention of Congress as 15
stated in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the 16
Section 177 Agreement is hereby ratified and 17
approved. It is the explicit understanding and 18
intent of Congress that the jurisdictional limita-19
tions set forth in Article XII of such Agreement 20
are enacted solely and exclusively to accomplish 21
the objective of Article X of such Agreement 22
and only as a clarification of the effect of Arti-23
cle X, and are not to be construed or imple-24
mented separately from Article X.’’. 25
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(2) EFFECT.—Nothing in the 2023 Agreement 1
to Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact affects the appli-2
cation of the provisions of law reaffirmed by para-3
graph (1). 4
(c) C
ERTAINSECTION177 AGREEMENT PROVI-5
SIONS.—Congress reaffirms that— 6
(1) Article IX of the Agreement Between the 7
Government of the United States and the Govern-8
ment of the Marshall Islands for the Implementation 9
of Section 177 of the Compact of Free Association, 10
done at Majuro June 25, 1983, provided that ‘‘If 11
loss or damage to property and person of the citi-12
zens of the Marshall Islands, resulting from the Nu-13
clear Testing Program, arises or is discovered after 14
the effective date of this Agreement, and such inju-15
ries were not and could not reasonably have been 16
identified as of the effective date of this Agreement, 17
and if such injuries render the provisions of this 18
Agreement manifestly inadequate, the Government 19
of the Marshall Islands may request that the Gov-20
ernment of the United States provide for such inju-21
ries by submitting such a request to the Congress of 22
the United States for its consideration. It is under-23
stood that this Article does not commit the Congress 24
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of the United States to authorize and appropriate 1
funds.’’; and 2
(2) section 3(a) of Article XIII of the agree-3
ment described in paragraph (1) provided that ‘‘The 4
Government of the United States and the Govern-5
ment of the Marshall Islands shall consult at the re-6
quest of either of them on matters relating to the 7
provisions of this Agreement.’’. 8
(d) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOJOINTECO-9
NOMICMANAGEMENT AND FINANCIALACCOUNTABILITY 10
C
OMMITTEE.— 11
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 2 United States ap-12
pointees (which are composed of the United States 13
chair and 1 other member from the Government of 14
the United States) to the Joint Economic Manage-15
ment and Financial Accountability Committee estab-16
lished under section 214 of the 2003 Amended U.S.- 17
RMI Compact (referred to in this subsection as the 18
‘‘Committee’’) shall— 19
(A) be voting members of the Committee; 20
and 21
(B) continue to be officers or employees of 22
the Federal Government. 23
(2) T
ERM; APPOINTMENT.—The 2 United 24
States members of the Committee described in para-25
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graph (1) shall be appointed for a term of 2 years 1
as follows: 2
(A) 1 member shall be appointed by the 3
Secretary of State, in consultation with the Sec-4
retary of the Treasury. 5
(B) 1 member shall be appointed by the 6
Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with 7
the Secretary of the Treasury. 8
(3) R
EAPPOINTMENT.—A United States mem-9
ber of the Committee appointed under paragraph (2) 10
may be reappointed for not more than 2 additional 11
2-year terms. 12
(4) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—At least 1 United States 13
member of the Committee appointed under para-14
graph (2) shall be an individual who— 15
(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 16
training, is especially qualified in accounting, 17
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, grant ad-18
ministration, program management, or inter-19
national economics; and 20
(B) possesses not less than 5 years of full- 21
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 22
analysis, compliance, grant administration, pro-23
gram management, or international economics. 24
(5) N
OTICE.— 25
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(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 1
after the date of appointment of a United 2
States member under paragraph (2), the Sec-3
retary of the Interior shall notify the appro-4
priate committees of Congress that an indi-5
vidual has been appointed as a voting member 6
of the Committee under that paragraph, includ-7
ing a statement attesting to the qualifications 8
of the member described in paragraph (4), sub-9
ject to subparagraph (B). 10
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—For purposes of a 11
statement required under subparagraph (A), in 12
the case of a member appointed under para-13
graph (2)(A), the Secretary of the Interior shall 14
compile information on the member provided to 15
the Secretary of the Interior by the Secretary of 16
State on request of the Secretary of the Inte-17
rior. 18
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 19
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-20
ceives or completes any report required under the 21
2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related 22
subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 23
shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-24
tees of Congress. 25
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(7) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 1
days after the date on which the Government of the 2
Republic of the Marshall Islands submits to the 3
Committee a report required under the 2023 4
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related sub-5
sidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior shall 6
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress— 7
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-8
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 9
report is complete and accurate; or 10
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 11
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-12
port has not been timely submitted. 13
(e) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOTRUSTFUND 14
C
OMMITTEE.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 3 United States voting 16
members (which are composed of the United States 17
chair and 2 other members from the Government of 18
the United States) to the Trust Fund Committee es-19
tablished pursuant to the agreement described in 20
section 462(b)(5) of the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI 21
Compact (referred to in this subsection as the 22
‘‘Committee’’) shall continue to be officers or em-23
ployees of the Federal Government. 24
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(2) TERM; APPOINTMENT.—The 3 United 1
States members of the Committee described in para-2
graph (1) shall be appointed for a term not more 3
than 5 years as follows: 4
(A) 1 member shall be appointed by the 5
Secretary of State. 6
(B) 1 member shall be appointed by the 7
Secretary of the Interior. 8
(C) 1 member shall be appointed by the 9
Secretary of the Treasury. 10
(3) R
EAPPOINTMENT.—A United States mem-11
ber of the Committee appointed under paragraph (2) 12
may be reappointed for not more than 2 additional 13
2-year terms. 14
(4) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—Not fewer than 2 mem-15
bers of the Committee appointed under paragraph 16
(2) shall be individuals who— 17
(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 18
training, are especially qualified in accounting, 19
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, financial 20
investment, grant administration, program 21
management, or international economics; and 22
(B) possess not less than 5 years of full- 23
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 24
analysis, compliance, financial investment, 25
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grant administration, program management, or 1
international economics. 2
(5) N
OTICE.— 3
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 4
after the date of appointment of a United 5
States Member under paragraph (2), the Sec-6
retary of the Interior shall notify the appro-7
priate committees of Congress that an indi-8
vidual has been appointed as a voting member 9
of the Committee under that paragraph, includ-10
ing a statement attesting to the qualifications 11
of the appointee described in paragraph (4), 12
subject to subparagraph (B). 13
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—For purposes of a 14
statement required under subparagraph (A)— 15
(i) in the case of a member appointed 16
under paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary of 17
the Interior shall compile information on 18
the member provided to the Secretary of 19
the Interior by the Secretary of State on 20
request of the Secretary of the Interior; 21
and 22
(ii) in the case of a member appointed 23
under paragraph (2)(C), the Secretary of 24
the Interior shall compile information on 25
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the member provided to the Secretary of 1
the Interior by the Secretary of the Treas-2
ury on request of the Secretary of the Inte-3
rior. 4
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 5
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-6
ceives or completes any report required under the 7
2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related 8
subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 9
shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-10
tees of Congress. 11
(7) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 12
days after the date on which the Government of the 13
Republic of the Marshall Islands submits to the 14
Committee a report required under the 2023 15
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related sub-16
sidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior shall 17
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress— 18
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-19
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 20
report is complete and accurate; or 21
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 22
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-23
port has not been timely submitted. 24
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(f) FOURATOLLHEALTHCAREPROGRAM.—Con-1
gress reaffirms that— 2
(1) section 103(j)(1) of the Compact of Free 3
Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1903(j)(1)) and 4
section 103(h)(1) of the Compact of Free Associa-5
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 6
1921b(h)(1)) provided that services ‘‘provided by the 7
United States Public Health Service or any other 8
United States agency pursuant to section 1(a) of Ar-9
ticle II of the Agreement for the Implementation of 10
Section 177 of the Compact (hereafter in this sub-11
section referred to as the ‘Section 177 Agreement’) 12
shall be only for services to the people of the Atolls 13
of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utrik who were 14
affected by the consequences of the United States 15
nuclear testing program, pursuant to the program 16
described in Public Law 95–134 and Public Law 17
96–205 and their descendants (and any other per-18
sons identified as having been so affected if such 19
identification occurs in the manner described in such 20
public laws). Nothing in this subsection shall be con-21
strued as prejudicial to the views or policies of the 22
Government of the Marshall Islands as to the per-23
sons affected by the consequences of the United 24
States nuclear testing program.’’; 25
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(2) section 103(j)(2) of the Compact of Free 1
Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1903(j)(2)) and 2
section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of Free Associa-3
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 4
1921b(h)(2)) provided that ‘‘at the end of the first 5
year after the effective date of the Compact and at 6
the end of each year thereafter, the providing agency 7
or agencies shall return to the Government of the 8
Marshall Islands any unexpended funds to be re-9
turned to the Fund Manager (as described in Article 10
I of the Section 177 Agreement) to be covered into 11
the Fund to be available for future use.’’; and 12
(3) section 103(j)(3) of the Compact of Free 13
Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1903(j)(3)) and 14
section 103(h)(3) of the Compact of Free Associa-15
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 16
1921b(h)(3)) provided that ‘‘the Fund Manager 17
shall retain the funds returned by the Government 18
of the Marshall Islands pursuant to paragraph (2) 19
of this subsection, shall invest and manage such 20
funds, and at the end of 15 years after the effective 21
date of the Compact, shall make from the total 22
amount so retained and the proceeds thereof annual 23
disbursements sufficient to continue to make pay-24
ments for the provision of health services as speci-25
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fied in paragraph (1) of this subsection to such ex-1
tent as may be provided in contracts between the 2
Government of the Marshall Islands and appropriate 3
United States providers of such health services.’’. 4
(g) R
ADIOLOGICALHEALTHCAREPROGRAM.—Not-5
withstanding any other provision of law, on the request 6
of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 7
the President (through an appropriate department or 8
agency of the United States) shall continue to provide spe-9
cial medical care and logistical support for the remaining 10
members of the population of Rongelap and Utrik who 11
were exposed to radiation resulting from the 1954 United 12
States thermonuclear ‘‘Bravo’’ test, pursuant to Public 13
Law 95–134 (91 Stat. 1159) and Public Law 96–205 (94 14
Stat. 84). 15
(h) A
GRICULTURAL AND FOODPROGRAMS.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Congress reaffirms that— 17
(A) section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of 18
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 19
1903(h)(2)) and section 103(f)(2)(A) of the 20
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act 21
of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(f)(2)(A)) provided 22
that notwithstanding ‘‘any other provision of 23
law, upon the request of the Government of the 24
Marshall Islands, for the first fifteen years 25
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after the effective date of the Compact, the 1
President (either through an appropriate de-2
partment or agency of the United States or by 3
contract with a United States firm or by a 4
grant to the Government of the Republic of the 5
Marshall Islands which may further contract 6
only with a United States firm or a Republic of 7
the Marshall Islands firm, the owners, officers 8
and majority of the employees of which are citi-9
zens of the United States or the Republic of the 10
Marshall Islands) shall provide technical and 11
other assistance without reimbursement, to con-12
tinue the planting and agricultural maintenance 13
program on Enewetak; without reimbursement, 14
to continue the food programs of the Bikini, 15
Rongelap, Utrik, and Enewetak people de-16
scribed in section 1(d) of Article II of the Sub-17
sidiary Agreement for the Implementation of 18
Section 177 of the Compact and for continued 19
waterborne transportation of agricultural prod-20
ucts to Enewetak including operations and 21
maintenance of the vessel used for such pur-22
poses.’’; 23
(B) section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of 24
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 25
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1903(h)(2)) and section 103(f)(2)(B) of the 1
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act 2
of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(f)(2)(B)) provided 3
that ‘‘The President shall ensure the assistance 4
provided under these programs reflects the 5
changes in the population since the inception of 6
such programs.’’; and 7
(C) section 103(h)(3) of the Compact of 8
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 9
1903(h)(3)) and section 103(f)(3) of the Com-10
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 11
2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(f)(3)) provided that 12
‘‘payments under this subsection shall be pro-13
vided to such extent or in such amounts as are 14
necessary for services and other assistance pro-15
vided pursuant to this subsection. It is the 16
sense of Congress that after the periods of time 17
specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this sub-18
section, consideration will be given to such addi-19
tional funding for these programs as may be 20
necessary.’’. 21
(2) P
LANTING AND AGRICULTURAL MAINTE -22
NANCE PROGRAM .—The Secretary of the Interior 23
may provide grants to the Government of the Re-24
public of the Marshall Islands to carry out a plant-25
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ing and agricultural maintenance program on Bikini, 1
Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utrik. 2
(3) F
OOD PROGRAMS.—The Secretary of Agri-3
culture may provide, without reimbursement, food 4
programs to the people of the Republic of the Mar-5
shall Islands. 6
SEC. 6. AGREEMENTS WITH AND OTHER PROVISIONS RE-7
LATED TO THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU. 8
(a) B
ILATERAL ECONOMIC CONSULTATIONS.— 9
United States participation in the annual economic con-10
sultations referred to in Article 8 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 11
Compact Review Agreement shall be by officers or employ-12
ees of the Federal Government. 13
(b) E
CONOMICADVISORYGROUP.— 14
(1) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—A member of the Eco-15
nomic Advisory Group described in Article 7 of the 16
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement (re-17
ferred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Advisory 18
Group’’) who is appointed by the Secretary of the 19
Interior shall be an individual who, by reason of 20
knowledge, experience, or training, is especially 21
qualified in private sector business development, eco-22
nomic development, or national development. 23
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(2) FUNDS.—With respect to the Advisory 1
Group, the Secretary of the Interior may use avail-2
able funds for— 3
(A) the costs of the 2 members of the Ad-4
visory Group designated by the United States 5
in accordance with Article 7 of the 2023 U.S.- 6
Palau Compact Review Agreement; 7
(B) 50 percent of the costs of the 5th 8
member of the Advisory Group designated by 9
the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with 10
the Article described in subparagraph (A); and 11
(C) the costs of— 12
(i) technical and administrative assist-13
ance for the Advisory Group; and 14
(ii) other support necessary for the 15
Advisory Group to accomplish the purpose 16
of the Advisory Group. 17
(3) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 18
90 days after the date on which the Advisory Group 19
receives or completes any report required under the 20
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, or 21
any related subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of 22
the Interior shall submit the report to the appro-23
priate committees of Congress. 24
(c) R
EPORTS TOCONGRESS.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 1
the date on which the Government of the Republic 2
of Palau completes any report required under the 3
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, or 4
any related subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of 5
the Interior shall submit the report to the appro-6
priate committees of Congress. 7
(2) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 8
days after the date on which the Government of the 9
Republic of Palau submits a report required under 10
the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, or 11
any related subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of 12
the Interior shall submit to the appropriate commit-13
tees of Congress— 14
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-15
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 16
report is complete and accurate; or 17
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 18
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-19
port has not been timely submitted. 20
SEC. 7. OVERSIGHT PROVISIONS. 21
(a) A
UTHORITIES AND DUTIES OF THE COMP-22
TROLLERGENERAL OF THEUNITEDSTATES.— 23
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of 24
the United States (including any duly authorized 25
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representative of the Comptroller General of the 1
United States) shall have the authorities necessary 2
to carry out the responsibilities of the Comptroller 3
General of the United States under— 4
(A) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Com-5
pact and related subsidiary agreements, includ-6
ing the authorities and privileges described in 7
section 102(b) of the Compact of Free Associa-8
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 9
1921a(b)); 10
(B) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact 11
and related subsidiary agreements, including 12
the authorities and privileges described in sec-13
tion 103(k) of the Compact of Free Association 14
Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 15
1921b(k)); and 16
(C) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review 17
Agreement, related subsidiary agreements, and 18
the authorities described in appendix D of the 19
‘‘Agreement between the Government of the 20
United States of America and the Government 21
of the Republic of Palau Following the Compact 22
of Free Association Section 432 Review’’ signed 23
by the United States and the Republic of Palau 24
on September 3, 2010. 25
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(2) REPORTS.—Not later than 18 months after 1
the date of enactment of this Act, and every 4 years 2
thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United 3
States shall submit to the appropriate committees of 4
Congress a report with respect to the Freely Associ-5
ated States, including addressing— 6
(A) the topics described in subparagraphs 7
(A) through (E) of section 104(h)(1) of the 8
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act 9
of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921c(h)(1)), except that 10
for purposes of a report submitted under this 11
paragraph, the report shall address those topics 12
with respect to each of the Freely Associated 13
States; and 14
(B) the effectiveness of administrative 15
oversight by the United States of the Freely As-16
sociated States. 17
(b) S
ECRETARY OF THE INTERIOROVERSIGHTAU-18
THORITY.—The Secretary of the Interior shall have the 19
authority necessary to fulfill the responsibilities for moni-20
toring and managing the funds appropriated to the Com-21
pact of Free Association account of the Department of the 22
Interior by section 10(a) to carry out— 23
(1) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 24
(2) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; 25
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(3) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review 1
Agreement; and 2
(4) subsidiary agreements. 3
(c) P
OSTMASTERGENERALOVERSIGHTAUTHOR-4
ITY.—The Postmaster General shall have the authority 5
necessary to fulfill the responsibilities for monitoring and 6
managing the funds appropriated to the United States 7
Postal Service under paragraph (1) of section 10(b) and 8
deposited in the Postal Service Fund under paragraph 9
(2)(A) of that section to carry out— 10
(1) section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amended 11
U.S.-FSM Compact; 12
(2) section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amended 13
U.S.-RMI Compact; 14
(3) section 221(a)(2) of the U.S.-Palau Com-15
pact; and 16
(4) Article 6(a) of the 2023 U.S.-Palau Com-17
pact Review Agreement. 18
(d) I
NTERAGENCYGROUP ONFREELYASSOCIATED 19
S
TATES.— 20
(1) E
STABLISHMENT.—The President, in con-21
sultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary 22
of the Interior, and the Secretary of Defense, shall 23
establish an Interagency Group on Freely Associated 24
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States (referred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Inter-1
agency Group’’). 2
(2) P
URPOSE.—The purposes of the Inter-3
agency Group are— 4
(A) to coordinate development and imple-5
mentation of executive branch policies, pro-6
grams, services, and other activities in or relat-7
ing to the Freely Associated States; and 8
(B) to provide policy guidance, rec-9
ommendations, and oversight to Federal agen-10
cies, departments, and instrumentalities with 11
respect to the implementation of— 12
(i) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 13
Compact; 14
(ii) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 15
Compact; and 16
(iii) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 17
Review Agreement. 18
(3) M
EMBERSHIP.—The Interagency Group 19
shall consist of— 20
(A) the Secretary of State, who shall serve 21
as co-chair of the Interagency Group; 22
(B) the Secretary of the Interior, who shall 23
serve as co-chair of the Interagency Group; 24
(C) the Secretary of Defense; 25
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(D) the Secretary of the Treasury; 1
(E) the heads of relevant Federal agencies, 2
departments, and instrumentalities carrying out 3
obligations under— 4
(i) sections 131 and 132 of the 2003 5
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact and sub-6
sections (a) and (b) of section 221 and sec-7
tion 261 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 8
Compact; 9
(ii) sections 131 and 132 of the 2003 10
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact and sub-11
sections (a) and (b) of section 221 and sec-12
tion 261 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 13
Compact; 14
(iii) sections 131 and 132 and sub-15
sections (a) and (b) of section 221 of the 16
U.S.-Palau Compact; 17
(iv) Article 6 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 18
Compact Review Agreement; 19
(v) any applicable subsidiary agree-20
ment; and 21
(vi) section 8; and 22
(F) the head of any other Federal agency, 23
department, or instrumentality that the Sec-24
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retary of State or the Secretary of the Interior 1
may designate. 2
(4) D
UTIES OF SECRETARY OF STATE AND SEC -3
RETARY OF THE INTERIOR .—The Secretary of State 4
(or a senior official designee of the Secretary of 5
State) and the Secretary of the Interior (or a senior 6
official designee of the Secretary of the Interior) 7
shall— 8
(A) co-lead and preside at a meeting of the 9
Interagency Group not less frequently than an-10
nually; 11
(B) determine, in consultation with the 12
Secretary of Defense, the agenda for meetings 13
of the Interagency Group; and 14
(C) facilitate and coordinate the work of 15
the Interagency Group. 16
(5) D
UTIES OF THE INTERAGENCY GROUP .— 17
The Interagency Group shall— 18
(A) provide advice on the establishment or 19
implementation of policies relating to the Freely 20
Associated States to the President, acting 21
through the Office of Intergovernmental Af-22
fairs, in the form of a written report not less 23
frequently than annually; 24
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(B) obtain information and advice relating 1
to the Freely Associated States from the Presi-2
dents, other elected officials, and members of 3
civil society of the Freely Associated States, in-4
cluding through the members of the Inter-5
agency Group (including senior official des-6
ignees of the members) meeting not less fre-7
quently than annually with any Presidents of 8
the Freely Associated States who elect to par-9
ticipate; 10
(C) at the request of the head of any Fed-11
eral agency (or a senior official designee of the 12
head of a Federal agency) who is a member of 13
the Interagency Group, promptly review and 14
provide advice on a policy or policy implementa-15
tion action affecting 1 or more of the Freely 16
Associated States proposed by the Federal 17
agency, department, or instrumentality; and 18
(D) facilitate coordination of relevant poli-19
cies, programs, initiatives, and activities involv-20
ing 1 or more of the Freely Associated States, 21
including ensuring coherence and avoiding du-22
plication between programs, initiatives, and ac-23
tivities conducted pursuant to a Compact with 24
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a Freely Associated State and non-Compact 1
programs, initiatives, and activities. 2
(6) R
EPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after the 3
date of enactment of this joint resolution and each 4
year thereafter in which a Compact of Free Associa-5
tion with a Freely Associated State is in effect, the 6
President shall submit to the majority leader and 7
minority leader of the Senate, the Speaker and mi-8
nority leader of the House of Representatives, and 9
the appropriate committees of Congress a report 10
that describes the activities and recommendations of 11
the Interagency Group during the applicable year. 12
(e) F
EDERALAGENCYCOORDINATION.—The head of 13
any Federal agency providing programs and services to 14
the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 15
Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau shall coordinate 16
with the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 17
State regarding the provision of the programs and serv-18
ices. 19
(f) F
OREIGNLOANS ORDEBT.—Congress reaffirms 20
that— 21
(1) the foreign loans or debt of the Government 22
of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Govern-23
ment of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the 24
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Government of the Republic of Palau shall not con-1
stitute an obligation of the United States; and 2
(2) the full faith and credit of the United 3
States Government shall not be pledged for the pay-4
ment and performance of any foreign loan or debt 5
referred to in paragraph (1) without specific further 6
authorization. 7
(g) C
OMPACTCOMPILATION.—Not later than 180 8
days after the date of enactment of this joint resolution, 9
the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the appro-10
priate committees of Congress a report that includes a 11
compilation of the Compact of Free Association with the 12
Federated State of Micronesia, the Compact of Free Asso-13
ciation with the Republic of Palau, and the Compact of 14
Free Association with Republic of the Marshall Islands. 15
(h) P
UBLICATION; REVISION BY THEOFFICE OF THE 16
L
AWREVISIONCOUNSEL.— 17
(1) P
UBLICATION.—In publishing this joint res-18
olution in slip form and in the United States Stat-19
utes at Large pursuant to section 112 of title 1, 20
United States Code, the Archivist of the United 21
States shall include after the date of approval at the 22
end an appendix setting forth the text of— 23
(A) the 2023 Agreement to Amend the 24
U.S.-FSM Compact; and 25
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(B) the 2023 Agreement to Amend the 1
U.S.-RMI Compact. 2
(2) R
EVISION BY THE OFFICE OF THE LAW RE -3
VISION COUNSEL.—The Office of the Law Revision 4
Counsel is directed to revise— 5
(A) the 2003 Amended U.S.-FSM Com-6
pact set forth in the note following section 1921 7
of title 48, United States Code, to reflect the 8
amendments to the 2003 Amended U.S.-FSM 9
Compact made by the 2023 Agreement to 10
Amend the U.S.-FSM Compact; and 11
(B) the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact 12
set forth in the note following section 1921 of 13
title 48, United States Code, to reflect the 14
amendments to the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI 15
Compact made by the 2023 Agreement to 16
Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact. 17
SEC. 8. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING THE FREELY 18
ASSOCIATED STATES. 19
(a) A
UTHORIZATION FORVETERANS’ SERVICES.— 20
(1) D
EFINITION OF FREELY ASSOCIATED 21
STATES.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘Freely Asso-22
ciated States’’ means— 23
(A) the Federated States of Micronesia, 24
during such time as it is a party to the Com-25
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pact of Free Association set forth in section 1
201 of the Compact of Free Association Act of 2
1985 (Public Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 3
note); 4
(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 5
during such time as it is a party to the Com-6
pact of Free Association set forth in section 7
201 of the Compact of Free Association Act of 8
1985 (Public Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 9
note); and 10
(C) the Republic of Palau, during such 11
time as it is a party to the Compact of Free As-12
sociation between the United States and the 13
Government of Palau set forth in section 201 of 14
Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘Joint Resolution to 15
approve the ‘Compact of Free Association’ be-16
tween the United States and the Government of 17
Palau, and for other purposes’’ (Public Law 18
99–658; 48 U.S.C. 1931 note). 19
(2) H
OSPITAL CARE, MEDICAL SERVICES, AND 20
NURSING HOME CARE ABROAD .—Section 1724 of 21
title 38, United States Code, is amended— 22
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘sub-23
sections (b) and (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections 24
(b), (c), and (f)’’; and 25
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(B) by adding at the end the following: 1
‘‘(f)(1) The Secretary may furnish hospital care and 2
medical services in the Freely Associated States to a vet-3
eran who is otherwise eligible to receive hospital care and 4
medical services. 5
‘‘(2) In furnishing hospital care and medical services 6
under paragraph (1), the Secretary may furnish hospital 7
care and medical services through— 8
‘‘(A) contracts or other agreements; 9
‘‘(B) reimbursement; or 10
‘‘(C) the direct provision of care by health care 11
personnel of the Department. 12
‘‘(3) In furnishing hospital care and medical services 13
under paragraph (1), the Secretary may furnish hospital 14
care and medical services for any condition regardless of 15
whether the condition is connected to the service of the 16
veteran in the Armed Forces. 17
‘‘(4)(A) A veteran who has received hospital care or 18
medical services in a country pursuant to this subsection 19
shall remain eligible, to the extent determined advisable 20
and practicable by the Secretary, for hospital care or med-21
ical services in that country regardless of whether the 22
country continues to qualify as a Freely Associated State 23
for purposes of this subsection. 24
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‘‘(B) If the Secretary determines it is no longer advis-1
able or practicable to allow veterans described in subpara-2
graph (A) to remain eligible for hospital care or medical 3
services pursuant to such subparagraph, the Secretary 4
shall— 5
‘‘(i) provide direct notice of that determination 6
to such veterans; and 7
‘‘(ii) publish that determination and the reasons 8
for that determination in the Federal Register. 9
‘‘(5) In this subsection, the term ‘Freely Associated 10
States’ means— 11
‘‘(A) the Federated States of Micronesia, dur-12
ing such time as it is a party to the Compact of 13
Free Association set forth in section 201 of the 14
Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (Public 15
Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 note); 16
‘‘(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, dur-17
ing such time as it is a party to the Compact of 18
Free Association set forth in section 201 of the 19
Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (Public 20
Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 note); and 21
‘‘(C) the Republic of Palau, during such time as 22
it is a party to the Compact of Free Association be-23
tween the United States and the Government of 24
Palau set forth in section 201 of Joint Resolution 25
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entitled ‘Joint Resolution to approve the ‘‘Compact 1
of Free Association’’ between the United States and 2
the Government of Palau, and for other purposes’ 3
(Public Law 99–658; 48 U.S.C. 1931 note).’’. 4
(3) B
ENEFICIARY TRAVEL.—Section 111 of title 5
38, United States Code, is amended by adding at 6
the end the following: 7
‘‘(h)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 8
the Secretary may make payments to or for any person 9
traveling in, to, or from the Freely Associated States for 10
receipt of care or services authorized under section 11
1724(f) of this title. 12
‘‘(2) A person who has received payment for travel 13
in a country pursuant to this subsection shall remain eligi-14
ble for payment for such travel in that country regardless 15
of whether the country continues to qualify as a Freely 16
Associated State for purposes of this subsection. 17
‘‘(3) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to 18
carry out this subsection. 19
‘‘(4) In this subsection, the term ‘Freely Associated 20
States’ means— 21
‘‘(A) the Federated States of Micronesia, dur-22
ing such time as it is a party to the Compact of 23
Free Association set forth in section 201 of the 24
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Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (Public 1
Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 note); 2
‘‘(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, dur-3
ing such time as it is a party to the Compact of 4
Free Association set forth in section 201 of the 5
Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (Public 6
Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 note); and 7
‘‘(C) the Republic of Palau, during such time as 8
it is a party to the Compact of Free Association be-9
tween the United States and the Government of 10
Palau set forth in section 201 of Joint Resolution 11
entitled ‘Joint Resolution to approve the ‘‘Compact 12
of Free Association’’ between the United States and 13
the Government of Palau, and for other purposes’ 14
(Public Law 99–658; 48 U.S.C. 1931 note).’’. 15
(4) L
EGAL ISSUES.— 16
(A) H
EALTH SERVICES.—The Secretary of 17
Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the Sec-18
retary of State, shall work with the govern-19
ments of the Freely Associated States to facili-20
tate the furnishing of health services, including 21
telehealth, under the laws administered by the 22
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to veterans in the 23
Freely Associated States, such as by address-24
ing— 25
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(i) licensure, certification, registra-1
tion, and tort issues relating to health care 2
personnel; and 3
(ii) matters relating to delivery of 4
pharmaceutical products and medical sur-5
gical products, including delivery of such 6
products through the Consolidated Mail 7
Outpatient Pharmacy of the Department 8
of Veterans Affairs, to the Freely Associ-9
ated States. 10
(B) L
ICENSURE OF HEALTH CARE PRO -11
FESSIONALS PROVIDING TREATMENT VIA TELE -12
MEDICINE IN THE FREELY ASSOCIATED 13
STATES.—Section 1730C(a) of title 38, United 14
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘any 15
State’’ and inserting ‘‘any State or any of the 16
Freely Associated States (as defined in section 17
1724(f) of this title)’’. 18
(C) P
AYMENT OF CLAIMS.—The Secretary 19
of Veterans Affairs may pay tort claims, in the 20
manner authorized in the first paragraph of 21
section 2672 of title 28, United States Code, 22
when such claims arise in the Freely Associated 23
States in connection with furnishing hospital 24
care or medical services or providing medical 25
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consultation or medical advice to a veteran 1
under the laws administered by the Secretary, 2
including through a remote or telehealth pro-3
gram. 4
(5) O
UTREACH AND ASSESSMENT OF OP -5
TIONS.—During the 1-year period beginning on the 6
date of enactment of this joint resolution, the Sec-7
retary of Veterans Affairs shall, subject to the avail-8
ability of appropriations— 9
(A) conduct robust outreach to, and en-10
gage with, each government of the Freely Asso-11
ciated States; 12
(B) assess options for the delivery of care 13
through the use of authorities provided pursu-14
ant to the amendments made by this sub-15
section; and 16
(C) increase staffing as necessary to con-17
duct outreach under subparagraph (A). 18
(b) A
UTHORIZATION OFEDUCATIONPROGRAMS.— 19
(1) E
LIGIBILITY.—For fiscal year 2024 and 20
each fiscal year thereafter, the Government of the 21
United States shall— 22
(A) continue to make available to the Fed-23
erated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 24
Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, 25
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grants for services to individuals eligible for 1
such services under part B of the Individuals 2
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 3
1411 et seq.) to the extent that those services 4
continue to be available to individuals in the 5
United States; 6
(B) continue to make available to the Fed-7
erated States of Micronesia and the Republic of 8
the Marshall Islands and make available to the 9
Republic of Palau, competitive grants under the 10
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 11
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), the Carl D. 12
Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 13
2006 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.), and part D of 14
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 15
(20 U.S.C. 1450 et seq.), to the extent that 16
those grants continue to be available to State 17
and local governments in the United States; 18
(C) continue to make grants available to 19
the Republic of Palau under part A of title I of 20
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 21
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.), the Adult 22
Education and Family Literacy Act (29 U.S.C. 23
3271 et seq.), and the Carl D. Perkins Career 24
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and Technical Education Act of 2006 (20 1
U.S.C. 2301 et seq.); 2
(D) continue to make available to eligible 3
institutions of higher education in the Republic 4
of Palau and make available to eligible institu-5
tions of higher education in the Federated 6
States of Micronesia and the Republic of the 7
Marshall Islands and to students enrolled in 8
those institutions of higher education, and to 9
students who are citizens of the Federated 10
States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Mar-11
shall Islands, and the Republic of Palau and 12
enrolled in institutions of higher education in 13
the United States and territories of the United 14
States, grants under— 15
(i) subpart 1 of part A of title IV of 16
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 17
U.S.C. 1070a et seq.); 18
(ii) subpart 3 of part A of title IV of 19
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 20
U.S.C. 1070b et seq.); and 21
(iii) part C of title IV of the Higher 22
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087– 23
51 et seq.); 24
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(E) require, as a condition of eligibility for 1
a public institution of higher education in any 2
State (as defined in section 103 of the Higher 3
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1003)) that 4
is not a Freely Associated State to participate 5
in or receive funds under any program under 6
title IV of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), 7
that the institution charge students who are 8
citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, 9
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Re-10
public of Palau tuition for attendance at a rate 11
that is not greater than the rate charged for 12
residents of the State in which such public in-13
stitution of higher education is located; and 14
(F) continue to make available, to eligible 15
institutions of higher education, secondary 16
schools, and nonprofit organizations in the Fed-17
erated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 18
Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, 19
competitive grants under the Higher Education 20
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.). 21
(2) O
THER FORMULA GRANTS .—Except as pro-22
vided in paragraph (1), the Secretary of Education 23
shall not make a grant under any formula grant pro-24
gram administered by the Department of Education 25
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to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic 1
of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau. 2
(3) G
RANTS TO THE FREELY ASSOCIATED 3
STATES UNDER PART B OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH 4
DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT .—Section 611(b)(1) 5
of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 6
(20 U.S.C. 1411(b)(1)) is amended by striking sub-7
paragraph (A) and inserting the following: 8
‘‘(A) F
UNDS RESERVED .—From the 9
amount appropriated for any fiscal year under 10
subsection (i), the Secretary shall reserve not 11
more than 1 percent, which shall be used as fol-12
lows: 13
‘‘(i) To provide assistance to the out-14
lying areas in accordance with their respec-15
tive populations of individuals aged 3 16
through 21. 17
‘‘(ii)(I) To provide each freely associ-18
ated State a grant so that no freely associ-19
ated State receives a lesser share of the 20
total funds reserved for the freely associ-21
ated State than the freely associated State 22
received of those funds for fiscal year 23
2023. 24
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‘‘(II) Each freely associated State 1
shall establish its eligibility under this sub-2
paragraph consistent with the require-3
ments for a State under section 612. 4
‘‘(III) The funds provided to each 5
freely associated State under this part may 6
be used to provide, to each infant or tod-7
dler with a disability (as defined in section 8
632), either a free appropriate public edu-9
cation, consistent with section 612, or 10
early intervention services consistent with 11
part C, notwithstanding the application 12
and eligibility requirements of sections 13
634(2), 635, and 637.’’. 14
(4) T
ECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE ELE -15
MENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 16
1965.—The Elementary and Secondary Education 17
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended— 18
(A) by striking subparagraph (A) of sec-19
tion 1121(b)(1) (20 U.S.C. 6331(b)(1)(A)) and 20
inserting the following: 21
‘‘(A) first reserve $1,000,000 for the Re-22
public of Palau, subject to such terms and con-23
ditions as the Secretary may establish, except 24
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that Public Law 95–134, permitting the con-1
solidation of grants, shall not apply; and’’; and 2
(B) by striking paragraph (36) of section 3
8101 (20 U.S.C. 7801(36)) and inserting the 4
following: 5
‘‘(36) O
UTLYING AREA.—The term ‘outlying 6
area’— 7
‘‘(A) means American Samoa, the Com-8
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 9
Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands; 10
and 11
‘‘(B) for the purpose of any discretionary 12
grant program under this Act, includes the Re-13
public of the Marshall Islands, the Federated 14
States of Micronesia, and the Republic of 15
Palau, to the extent that any such grant pro-16
gram continues to be available to State and 17
local governments in the United States.’’. 18
(5) T
ECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO THE COMPACT 19
OF FREE ASSOCIATION AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2003 .— 20
Section 105(f)(1)(B) of the Compact of Free Asso-21
ciation Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 22
1921d(f)(1)(B)) is amended by striking clause (ix). 23
(6) H
EAD START PROGRAMS .— 24
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(A) DEFINITIONS.—Section 637 of the 1
Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832) is amended, 2
in the paragraph defining the term ‘‘State’’, by 3
striking the second sentence and inserting ‘‘The 4
term ‘State’ includes the Federated States of 5
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Is-6
lands, and the Republic of Palau.’’. 7
(B) A
LLOTMENT OF FUNDS .—Section 8
640(a)(2)(B) of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9
9835(a)(2)(B)) is amended— 10
(i) in clause (iv), by inserting ‘‘the 11
Republic of Palau,’’ before ‘‘and the Virgin 12
Islands’’; and 13
(ii) by striking clause (v) and insert-14
ing the following: 15
‘‘(v) if a base grant has been estab-16
lished through appropriations for the Fed-17
erated States of Micronesia or the Repub-18
lic of the Marshall Islands, to provide an 19
amount for that jurisdiction (for Head 20
Start agencies (including Early Head Start 21
agencies) in the jurisdiction) that is equal 22
to the amount provided for base grants for 23
such jurisdiction under this subchapter for 24
the prior fiscal year, by allotting to each 25
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agency described in this clause an amount 1
equal to that agency’s base grant for the 2
prior fiscal year; and’’. 3
(7) C
OORDINATION REQUIRED .—The Secretary 4
of the Interior, in coordination with the Secretary of 5
Education and the Secretary of Health and Human 6
Services, as applicable, shall, to the maximum extent 7
practicable, coordinate with the 3 United States ap-8
pointees to the Joint Economic Management Com-9
mittee described in section 4(b)(1) and the 2 United 10
States appointees to the Joint Economic Manage-11
ment and Financial Accountability Committee de-12
scribed in section 5(d)(1) to avoid duplication of eco-13
nomic assistance for education provided under sec-14
tion 261(a)(1) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 15
Compact or section 261(a)(1) of the 2023 Amended 16
U.S.-RMI Compact of activities or services provided 17
under— 18
(A) the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 19
et seq.); 20
(B) subpart 3 of part A of title IV of the 21
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 22
1070b et seq.); or 23
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(C) part C of title IV of the Higher Edu-1
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087–51 et 2
seq.). 3
(c) A
UTHORIZATION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 4
P
ROGRAMS.— 5
(1) D
EPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDICAL FA -6
CILITIES.—The Secretary of Defense shall make 7
available, on a space available and reimbursable 8
basis, the medical facilities of the Department of De-9
fense for use by citizens of the Federated States of 10
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 11
and the Republic of Palau, who are properly referred 12
to the facilities by government authorities respon-13
sible for provision of medical services in the Fed-14
erated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 15
Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the af-16
fected jurisdictions (as defined in section 104(e)(2) 17
of the Compact of Free Association Amendments 18
Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921c(e)(2))). 19
(2) P
ARTICIPATION BY SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN 20
THE ARMED SERVICES VOCATIONAL APTITUDE BAT -21
TERY STUDENT TESTING PROGRAM .—It is the sense 22
of Congress that the Department of Defense may ex-23
tend the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Bat-24
tery (ASVAB) Student Testing Program and the 25
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ASVAB Career Exploration Program to selected sec-1
ondary schools in the Federated States of Micro-2
nesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 3
Republic of Palau to the extent such programs are 4
available to Department of Defense dependent sec-5
ondary schools established under section 2164 of 6
title 10, United States Code, and located outside the 7
United States. 8
(d) J
UDICIALTRAINING.—In addition to amounts 9
provided under section 261(a)(4) of the 2023 Amended 10
U.S.-FSM Compact and the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 11
Compact and under subsections (a) and (b) of Article 1 12
of the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, for 13
each of fiscal years 2024 through 2043, the Secretary of 14
the Interior shall use the amounts made available to the 15
Secretary of the Interior under section 10(c) to train 16
judges and officials of the judiciary in the Federated 17
States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 18
and the Republic of Palau, in cooperation with the Pacific 19
Islands Committee of the judicial council of the ninth judi-20
cial circuit of the United States. 21
(e) E
LIGIBILITY FOR THE REPUBLIC OFPALAU.— 22
(1) N
ATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS .—The 23
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall make 24
the services of the National Health Service Corps 25
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available to the residents of the Federated States of 1
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2
and the Republic of Palau to the same extent, and 3
for the same duration, as services are authorized to 4
be provided to persons residing in any other areas 5
within or outside the United States. 6
(2) A
DDITIONAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES .— 7
The Republic of Palau shall be eligible for the pro-8
grams and services made available to the Federated 9
States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Mar-10
shall Islands under section 108(a) of the Compact of 11
Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 12
U.S.C. 1921g(a)). 13
(3) P
ROGRAMS AND SERVICES OF CERTAIN 14
AGENCIES.—In addition to the programs and serv-15
ices set forth in the operative Federal Programs and 16
Services Agreement between the United States and 17
the Republic of Palau, the programs and services of 18
the following agencies shall be made available to the 19
Republic of Palau: 20
(A) The Legal Services Corporation. 21
(B) The Public Health Service. 22
(C) The Rural Housing Service. 23
(f) C
OMPACTIMPACTFAIRNESS.— 24
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 402 of the Personal 1
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 2
Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1612) is amended— 3
(A) in subsection (a)(2), by adding at the 4
end the following: 5
‘‘(N) E
XCEPTION FOR CITIZENS OF FREE -6
LY ASSOCIATED STATES.—With respect to eligi-7
bility for benefits for any specified Federal pro-8
gram, paragraph (1) shall not apply to any in-9
dividual who lawfully resides in the United 10
States in accordance with section 141 of the 11
Compacts of Free Association between the Gov-12
ernment of the United States and the Govern-13
ments of the Federated States of Micronesia, 14
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 15
Republic of Palau.’’; and 16
(B) in subsection (b)(2)(G)— 17
(i) in the subparagraph heading, by 18
striking ‘‘
MEDICAID EXCEPTION FOR ’’ and 19
inserting ‘‘
EXCEPTION FOR’’; and 20
(ii) by striking ‘‘the designated Fed-21
eral program defined in paragraph (3)(C) 22
(relating to the Medicaid program)’’ and 23
inserting ‘‘any designated Federal pro-24
gram’’. 25
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(2) EXCEPTION TO 5 -YEAR WAIT REQUIRE -1
MENT.—Section 403(b)(3) of the Personal Responsi-2
bility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 3
1996 (8 U.S.C. 1613(b)(3)) is amended by striking 4
‘‘, but only with respect to the designated Federal 5
program defined in section 402(b)(3)(C)’’. 6
(3) D
EFINITION OF QUALIFIED ALIEN .—Section 7
431(b)(8) of the Personal Responsibility and Work 8
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 9
1641(b)(8)) is amended by striking ‘‘, but only with 10
respect to the designated Federal program defined 11
in section 402(b)(3)(C) (relating to the Medicaid 12
program)’’. 13
(g) C
ONSULTATIONWITHINTERNATIONAL FINAN-14
CIALINSTITUTIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury, in 15
coordination with the Secretary of the Interior and the 16
Secretary of State, shall consult with appropriate officials 17
of the Asian Development Bank and relevant international 18
financial institutions (as defined in section 1701(c) of the 19
International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 20
262r(c))), as appropriate, with respect to overall economic 21
conditions in, and the activities of other providers of as-22
sistance to, the Freely Associated States. 23
(h) C
HIEF OFMISSION.—Section 105(b) of the Com-24
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 25
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U.S.C. 1921d(b)) is amended by striking paragraph (5) 1
and inserting the following: 2
‘‘(5) Pursuant to section 207 of the Foreign 3
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3927), all United 4
States Government executive branch employees in 5
the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of 6
the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau fall 7
under the authority of the respective applicable chief 8
of mission, except for employees identified as ex-9
cepted from the authority under Federal law or by 10
Presidential directive.’’. 11
(i) E
STABLISHMENT OF A UNIT FOR THEFREELY 12
A
SSOCIATEDSTATES IN THEBUREAU OFEASTASIAN 13
ANDPACIFICAFFAIRS OF THEDEPARTMENT OF STATE 14
ANDINCREASINGPERSONNELFOCUSED ONOCEANIA.— 15
(1) D
EFINITION OF APPROPRIATE CONGRES -16
SIONAL COMMITTEES.—In this subsection, the term 17
‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means the 18
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and 19
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 20
Representatives. 21
(2) R
EQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary of State 22
shall— 23
(A) assign additional full-time equivalent 24
personnel to the Office of Australia, New Zea-25
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land, and Pacific Island Affairs of the Bureau 1
of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the De-2
partment of State, including to the unit estab-3
lished under subparagraph (B), as the Sec-4
retary of State determines to be appropriate, in 5
accordance with paragraph (4)(A); and 6
(B) establish a unit in the Bureau of East 7
Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Department of 8
State to carry out the functions described in 9
paragraph (3). 10
(3) F
UNCTIONS OF UNIT.—The unit established 11
under paragraph (2)(B) shall be responsible for the 12
following: 13
(A) Managing the bilateral and regional re-14
lations with the Freely Associated States. 15
(B) Supporting the Secretary of State in 16
leading negotiations relating to the Compacts of 17
Free Association with the Freely Associated 18
States. 19
(C) Coordinating, in consultation with the 20
Department of the Interior, the Department of 21
Defense, and other interagency partners as ap-22
propriate, implementation of the Compacts of 23
Free Association with the Freely Associated 24
States. 25
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(4) FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES .—The 1
Secretary of State shall— 2
(A) not later than 5 years after the date 3
of enactment of this joint resolution, assign to 4
the Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pa-5
cific Island Affairs of the Bureau of East Asian 6
and Pacific Affairs, including to the unit estab-7
lished under paragraph (2)(B), not less than 4 8
additional full-time equivalent staff, who shall 9
not be dual-hatted, including by considering— 10
(i) the use of existing flexible hiring 11
authorities, including Domestic Employees 12
Teleworking Overseas (DETOs); and 13
(ii) the realignment of existing per-14
sonnel, including from the United States 15
Mission in Australia, as appropriate; 16
(B) reduce the number of vacant foreign 17
service positions in the Pacific Island region by 18
establishing an incentive program within the 19
Foreign Service for overseas positions related to 20
the Pacific Island region; and 21
(C) report to the appropriate congressional 22
committees on progress toward objectives out-23
lined in this subsection beginning 1 year from 24
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the date of enactment of this joint resolution 1
and annually thereafter for 5 years. 2
(j) T
ECHNICALASSISTANCE.—Section 105 of the 3
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 4
(48 U.S.C. 1921d) is amended by striking subsection (j) 5
and inserting the following: 6
‘‘(j) T
ECHNICALASSISTANCE.— 7
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Technical assistance may 8
be provided pursuant to section 224 of the 2023 9
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, section 224 of the 10
2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or section 222 11
of the U.S.-Palau Compact (as those terms are de-12
fined in section 2 of the Compact of Free Associa-13
tion Amendments Act of 2023) by Federal agencies 14
and institutions of the Government of the United 15
States to the extent the assistance shall be provided 16
to States, territories, or units of local government. 17
‘‘(2) H
ISTORIC PRESERVATION.— 18
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Any technical assist-19
ance authorized under paragraph (1) that is 20
provided by the Forest Service, the Natural Re-21
sources Conservation Service, the United States 22
Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine 23
Fisheries Service, the United States Coast 24
Guard, the Advisory Council on Historic Pres-25
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ervation, the Department of the Interior, or any 1
other Federal agency providing assistance 2
under division A of subtitle III of title 54, 3
United States Code, may be provided on a non-4
reimbursable basis. 5
‘‘(B) G
RANTS.—During the period in 6
which the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact 7
(as so defined) and the 2023 Amended U.S.- 8
RMI Compact (as so defined) are in force, the 9
grant programs under division A of subtitle III 10
of title 54, United States Code, shall continue 11
to apply to the Federated States of Micronesia 12
and the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the 13
same manner and to the same extent as those 14
programs applied prior to the approval of the 15
U.S.-FSM Compact and U.S.-RMI Compact. 16
‘‘(3) A
DDITIONAL FUNDS.—Any funds provided 17
pursuant to this subsection, subsections (c), (g), (h), 18
(i), (k), (l), and (m), section 102(a), and subsections 19
(a), (b), (f), (g), (h), and (j) of section 103 shall be 20
in addition to, and not charged against, any 21
amounts to be paid to the Federated States of Mi-22
cronesia or the Republic of the Marshall Islands pur-23
suant to— 24
‘‘(A) the U.S.-FSM Compact; 25
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‘‘(B) the U.S.-RMI Compact; or 1
‘‘(C) any related subsidiary agreement.’’. 2
(k) C
ONTINUINGTRUSTTERRITORYAUTHORIZA-3
TION.—The authorization provided by the Act of June 30, 4
1954 (68 Stat. 330, chapter 423), shall remain available 5
after the effective date of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 6
Compact and the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact with 7
respect to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Re-8
public of the Marshall Islands for transition purposes, in-9
cluding— 10
(1) completion of projects and fulfillment of 11
commitments or obligations; 12
(2) termination of the Trust Territory Govern-13
ment and termination of the High Court; 14
(3) health and education as a result of excep-15
tional circumstances; 16
(4) ex gratia contributions for the populations 17
of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utrik; and 18
(5) technical assistance and training in finan-19
cial management, program administration, and 20
maintenance of infrastructure. 21
(l) T
ECHNICALAMENDMENTS.— 22
(1) P
UBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT DEFINI -23
TION.—Section 2(f) of the Public Health Service Act 24
(42 U.S.C. 201(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘and the 25
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Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands’’ and inserting 1
‘‘the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of 2
the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau’’. 3
(2) C
OMPACT IMPACT AMENDMENTS .—Section 4
104(e) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-5
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921c(e)) is amend-6
ed— 7
(A) in paragraph (4)— 8
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 9
‘‘beginning in fiscal year 2003’’ and insert-10
ing ‘‘during the period of fiscal years 2003 11
through 2023’’; and 12
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 13
‘‘after fiscal year 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘for 14
the period of fiscal years 2004 through 15
2023’’; 16
(B) by striking paragraph (5); and 17
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (6) 18
through (10) as paragraphs (5) through (9), re-19
spectively. 20
SEC. 9. ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES. 21
(a) A
GENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, ANDINSTRUMENTAL-22
ITIES.— 23
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Appropriations to carry out 24
the obligations, services, and programs described in 25
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paragraph (2) shall be made directly to the Federal 1
agencies, departments, and instrumentalities car-2
rying out the obligations, services and programs. 3
(2) O
BLIGATIONS, SERVICES, AND PROGRAMS 4
DESCRIBED.—The obligations, services, and pro-5
grams referred to in paragraphs (1) and (3) are the 6
obligations, services, and programs under— 7
(A) sections 131 and 132, paragraphs (1) 8
and (3) through (6) of section 221(a), and sec-9
tion 221(b) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 10
Compact; 11
(B) sections 131 and 132, paragraphs (1) 12
and (3) through (6) of section 221(a), and sec-13
tion 221(b) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 14
Compact; 15
(C) sections 131 and 132 and paragraphs 16
(1), (3), and (4) of section 221(a) of the U.S.- 17
Palau Compact; 18
(D) Article 6 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau Com-19
pact Review Agreement; and 20
(E) section 8. 21
(3) A
UTHORITY.—The heads of the Federal 22
agencies, departments, and instrumentalities to 23
which appropriations are made available under para-24
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graph (1) as well as the Federal Deposit Insurance 1
Corporation shall— 2
(A) have the authority to carry out any ac-3
tivities that are necessary to fulfill the obliga-4
tions, services, and programs described in para-5
graph (2); and 6
(B) use available funds to carry out the ac-7
tivities under subparagraph (A). 8
(b) A
DDITIONALASSISTANCE.—Any assistance pro-9
vided pursuant to section 105(j) of the Compact of Free 10
Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 11
1921d(j)) (as amended by section 8(j)) and sections 4(a), 12
5(a), 6(b), and 8 shall be in addition to and not charged 13
against any amounts to be paid to the Federated States 14
of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and 15
the Republic of Palau pursuant to— 16
(1) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 17
(2) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; 18
(3) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review 19
Agreement; or 20
(4) any related subsidiary agreement. 21
(c) R
EMAININGBALANCES.—Notwithstanding any 22
other provision of law, including section 109 of the Com-23
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 24
U.S.C. 1921h)— 25
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(1) remaining balances appropriated to carry 1
out sections 211, 212(b), 215, and 217 of the 2023 2
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, shall be programmed 3
pursuant to Article IX of the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal 4
Procedures Agreement; and 5
(2) remaining balances appropriated to carry 6
out sections 211, 213(b), 216, and 218 of the 2023 7
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, shall be programmed 8
pursuant to Article XI of the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal 9
Procedures Agreement. 10
(d) G
RANTS.—Notwithstanding any other provision 11
of law— 12
(1) contributions under the 2023 Amended 13
U.S.-FSM Compact, the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 14
Review Agreement, and the 2023 Amended U.S.- 15
RMI Compact may be provided as grants for pur-16
poses of implementation of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 17
FSM Compact, the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Re-18
view Agreement, and the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 19
Compact under the laws of the United States; and 20
(2) funds appropriated pursuant to section 10 21
may be deposited in interest-bearing accounts and 22
any interest earned may be retained in and form 23
part of those accounts for use consistent with the 24
purpose of the deposit. 25
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(e) RULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Except as specifically 1
provided, nothing in this joint resolution or the amend-2
ments made by this joint resolution amends the following: 3
(1) Title I of the Compact of Free Association 4
Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.). 5
(2) Title I of Public Law 99–658 (48 U.S.C. 6
1931 et seq.). 7
(3) Title I of the Compact of Free Association 8
Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.). 9
(4) Section 1259C of the National Defense Au-10
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (48 U.S.C. 11
1931 note; Public Law 115–91). 12
(5) The Department of the Interior, Environ-13
ment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 14
2018 (Public Law 115–141; 132 Stat. 635). 15
(f) C
LARIFICATIONRELATING TO APPROPRIATED 16
F
UNDS.—Notwithstanding section 109 of the Compacts of 17
Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 18
1921h)— 19
(1) funds appropriated by that section and de-20
posited into the RMI Compact Trust Fund shall be 21
governed by the 2023 U.S.-RMI Trust Fund Agree-22
ment on entry into force of the 2023 U.S.-RMI 23
Trust Fund Agreement; 24
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(2) funds appropriated by that section and de-1
posited into the FSM Compact Trust Fund shall be 2
governed by the 2023 U.S.-FSM Trust Fund Agree-3
ment on entry into force of the 2023 U.S.-FSM 4
Trust Fund Agreement; 5
(3) funds appropriated by that section and 6
made available for fiscal year 2024 or any fiscal year 7
thereafter as grants to carry out the purposes of sec-8
tion 211(b) of the 2003 U.S.-RMI Amended Com-9
pact shall be subject to the provisions of the 2023 10
U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures Agreement on entry 11
into force of the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 12
Agreement; 13
(4) funds appropriated by that section and 14
made available for fiscal year 2024 or any fiscal year 15
thereafter as grants to carry out the purposes of sec-16
tion 221 of the 2003 U.S.-RMI Amended Compact 17
shall be subject to the provisions of the 2023 U.S.- 18
RMI Fiscal Procedures Agreement on entry into 19
force of the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 20
Agreement, except as modified in the Federal Pro-21
grams and Services Agreement in force between the 22
United States and the Republic of the Marshall Is-23
lands; and 24
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(5) funds appropriated by that section and 1
made available for fiscal year 2024 or any fiscal year 2
thereafter as grants to carry out the purposes of sec-3
tion 221 of the 2003 U.S.-FSM Amended Compact 4
shall be subject to the provisions of the 2023 U.S.- 5
FSM Fiscal Procedures Agreement on entry into 6
force of the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Procedures 7
Agreement, except as modified in the 2023 U.S.- 8
FSM Federal Programs and Services Agreement. 9
SEC. 10. COMPACT APPROPRIATIONS. 10
(a) F
UNDING FORACTIVITIES OF THESECRETARY 11
OF THEINTERIOR.—For the period of fiscal years 2024 12
through 2043, there are appropriated to the Compact of 13
Free Association account of the Department of the Inte-14
rior, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appro-15
priated, to remain available until expended, the amounts 16
described in and to carry out the purposes of— 17
(1) sections 261, 265, and 266 of the 2023 18
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 19
(2) sections 261, 265, and 266 of the 2023 20
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; and 21
(3) Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 22
Compact Review Agreement. 23
(b) F
UNDING FOR ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED 24
S
TATESPOSTALSERVICE.— 25
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(1) APPROPRIATION.—There is appropriated to 1
the United States Postal Service, out of any funds 2
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for each 3
of fiscal years 2024 through 2043, $31,700,000, to 4
remain available until expended, to carry out the 5
costs of the following provisions that are not other-6
wise funded: 7
(A) Section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amend-8
ed U.S.-FSM Compact. 9
(B) Section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amend-10
ed U.S.-RMI Compact. 11
(C) Section 221(a)(2) of the U.S.-Palau 12
Compact. 13
(D) Article 6(a) of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 14
Compact Review Agreement. 15
(2) D
EPOSIT.— 16
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The amounts appro-17
priated to the United States Postal Service 18
under paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the 19
Postal Service Fund established under section 20
2003 of title 39, United States Code, to carry 21
out the provisions described in that paragraph. 22
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—Any amounts depos-23
ited into the Postal Service Fund under sub-24
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paragraph (A) shall be the fiduciary, fiscal, and 1
audit responsibility of the Postal Service. 2
(c) F
UNDING FOR JUDICIALTRAINING.—There is 3
appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out 4
section 8(d) out of any funds in the Treasury not other-5
wise appropriated, $550,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 6
through 2043, to remain available until expended. 7
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118
TH
CONGRESS
2
D
S
ESSION
H. J. RES. 96
[Report No. 118–785, Part I]
JOINT RESOLUTION
To approve the 2023 Agreement to Amend the
U.S.-FSM Compact, and related agreements, be-
tween the Government of the United States of
America and the Government of the Federated
States of Micronesia, the 2023 Agreement to
Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact, and certain re-
lated agreements between the Government of the
United States of America and the Government of
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement be-
tween the Government of the United States of
America and the Government of the Republic of
Palau, to appropriate funds to carry out the
agreements, and for other purposes.
D
ECEMBER
19, 2024
Committees on Veterans’ Affairs, Oversight and Account-
ability, Agriculture, and Ways and Means discharged;
committed to the Committee of the Whole House on
the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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