Us Congress Senate Bill SJR48 Latest Draft

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118THCONGRESS 
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STSESSION S. J. RES. 48 
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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER2, 2023 
Mr. M
ANCHIN(for himself, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. RISCH, Ms. 
H
IRONO, and Mr. BOOZMAN) introduced the following joint resolution; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural Resources 
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-
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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 
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-
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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 
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
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This joint resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Compact 2
of Free Association Amendments Act of 2023’’. 3
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 4
In this joint resolution: 5
(1) 1986 
COMPACT.—The term ‘‘1986 Com-6
pact’’ means the Compact of Free Association be-7
tween the Government of the United States and the 8
Governments of the Marshall Islands and the Fed-9
erated States of Micronesia set forth in section 201 10
of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (48 11
U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 99–239). 12
(2) 2003 
AMENDED U.S.-FSM COMPACT.—The 13
term ‘‘2003 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact’’ means 14
the Compact of Free Association amending the 1986 15
Compact entitled the ‘‘Compact of Free Association, 16
as amended, between the Government of the United 17
States of America and the Government of the Fed-18
erated States of Micronesia’’ set forth in section 19
201(a) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-20
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 note; Public 21
Law 108–188). 22
(3) 2003 
AMENDED U.S.-RMI COMPACT.—The 23
term ‘‘2003 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact’’ means 24
the Compact of Free Association amending the 1986 25
Compact entitled ‘‘Compact of Free Association, as 26
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amended, between the Government of the United 1
States of America and the Government of the Re-2
public of the Marshall Islands’’ set forth in section 3
201(b) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-4
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 note; Public 5
Law 108–188). 6
(4) 2023 
AGREEMENT TO AMEND THE U .S.-FSM 7
COMPACT.—The term ‘‘2023 Agreement to Amend 8
the U.S.-FSM Compact’’ means the Agreement be-9
tween the Government of the United States of 10
America and the Government of the Federated 11
States of Micronesia to Amend the Compact of Free 12
Association, as Amended, done at Palikir May 23, 13
2023. 14
(5) 2023 
AGREEMENT TO AMEND THE U .S.-RMI 15
COMPACT.—The term ‘‘2023 Agreement to Amend 16
the U.S.-RMI Compact’’ means the Agreement be-17
tween the Government of the United States of 18
America and the Government of the Republic of the 19
Marshall Islands to Amend the Compact of Free As-20
sociation, as Amended, done at Honolulu October 21
16, 2023. 22
(6) 2023 
AMENDED U.S.-FSM COMPACT.—The 23
term ‘‘2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact’’ means 24
the 2003 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, as amended 25
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by the 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-FSM 1
Compact. 2
(7) 2023 
AMENDED U.S.-RMI COMPACT.—The 3
term ‘‘2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact’’ means 4
the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, as amended 5
by the 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-RMI 6
Compact. 7
(8) 2023 
U.S.-FSM FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND 8
SERVICES AGREEMENT .—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-FSM 9
Federal Programs and Services Agreement’’ means 10
the 2023 Federal Programs and Services Agreement 11
between the Government of the United States of 12
America and the Government of the Federated 13
States of Micronesia, done at Washington September 14
28, 2023. 15
(9) 2023 
U.S.-FSM FISCAL PROCEDURES AGREE -16
MENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Proce-17
dures Agreement’’ means the Agreement Concerning 18
Procedures for the Implementation of United States 19
Economic Assistance provided in the 2023 Amended 20
U.S.-FSM Compact between the Government of the 21
United States of America and the Government of 22
the Federated States of Micronesia, done at Palikir 23
May 23, 2023. 24
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(10) 2023 U.S.-FSM TRUST FUND AGREE -1
MENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-FSM Trust Fund 2
Agreement’’ means the Agreement between the Gov-3
ernment of the United States of America and the 4
Government of the Federated States of Micronesia 5
Regarding the Compact Trust Fund, done at Palikir 6
May 23, 2023. 7
(11) 2023 
U.S.-PALAU COMPACT REVIEW 8
AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 9
Review Agreement’’ means the Agreement between 10
the Government of the United States of America 11
and the Government of the Republic of Palau Re-12
sulting From the 2023 Compact of Free Association 13
Section 432 Review, done at Port Moresby May 22, 14
2023. 15
(12) 2023 
U.S.-RMI FISCAL PROCEDURES 16
AGREEMENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal 17
Procedures Agreement’’ means the Agreement Con-18
cerning Procedures for the Implementation of 19
United States Economic Assistance Provided in the 20
2023 Amended Compact Between the Government of 21
the United States of America and the Government 22
of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, done at 23
Honolulu October 16, 2023. 24
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(13) 2023 U.S.-RMI TRUST FUND AGREE -1
MENT.—The term ‘‘2023 U.S.-RMI Trust Fund 2
Agreement’’ means the Agreement between the Gov-3
ernment of the United States of America and the 4
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands 5
Regarding the Compact Trust Fund, done at Hono-6
lulu October 16, 2023. 7
(14) A
PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -8
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-9
gress’’ means— 10
(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 11
Resources of the Senate; 12
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 13
the Senate; 14
(C) the Committee on Natural Resources 15
of the House of Representatives; and 16
(D) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 17
the House of Representatives. 18
(15) F
REELY ASSOCIATED STATES .—The term 19
‘‘Freely Associated States’’ means— 20
(A) the Federated States of Micronesia; 21
(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands; 22
and 23
(C) the Republic of Palau. 24
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(16) SUBSIDIARY AGREEMENT .—The term 1
‘‘subsidiary agreement’’ means any of the following: 2
(A) The 2023 U.S.-FSM Federal Pro-3
grams and Services Agreement. 4
(B) The 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Proce-5
dures Agreement. 6
(C) The 2023 U.S.-FSM Trust Fund 7
Agreement. 8
(D) The 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 9
Agreement. 10
(E) The 2023 U.S.-RMI Trust Fund 11
Agreement. 12
(F) Any Federal Programs and Services 13
Agreement in force between the United States 14
and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. 15
(G) Any Federal Programs and Services 16
Agreement in force between the United States 17
and the Republic of Palau. 18
(H) Any other agreements that the United 19
States may from time-to-time enter into with 20
the Government of the Federated States of Mi-21
cronesia, the Government of the Republic of 22
Palau, or the Government of the Republic of 23
the Marshall Islands, in accordance with— 24
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(i) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 1
Compact; 2
(ii) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Re-3
view Agreement; or 4
(iii) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 5
Compact. 6
(17) U.S.-
PALAU COMPACT.—The term ‘‘U.S.- 7
Palau Compact’’ means the Compact of Free Asso-8
ciation between the United States and the Govern-9
ment of Palau set forth in section 201 of Public 10
Law 99–658 (48 U.S.C. 1931 note). 11
SEC. 3. APPROVAL OF 2023 AGREEMENT TO AMEND THE 12
U.S.-FSM COMPACT, 2023 AGREEMENT TO 13
AMEND THE U.S.-RMI COMPACT, 2023 U.S.- 14
PALAU COMPACT REVIEW AGREEMENT, AND 15
SUBSIDIARY AGREEMENTS. 16
(a) F
EDERATEDSTATES OFMICRONESIA.— 17
(1) A
PPROVAL.—The 2023 Agreement to 18
Amend the U.S.-FSM Compact and the 2023 U.S.- 19
FSM Trust Fund Agreement, as submitted to Con-20
gress on June 15, 2023, are approved and incor-21
porated by reference. 22
(2) C
ONSENT OF CONGRESS .—Congress con-23
sents to— 24
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(A) the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Procedures 1
Agreement, as submitted to Congress on June 2
15, 2023; and 3
(B) the 2023 U.S.-FSM Federal Programs 4
and Services Agreement. 5
(3) A
UTHORITY OF PRESIDENT .—Notwith-6
standing section 101(f) of the Compact of Free As-7
sociation Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 8
1921(f)), the President is authorized to bring into 9
force and implement the agreements described in 10
paragraphs (1) and (2). 11
(b) R
EPUBLIC OF THEMARSHALLISLANDS.— 12
(1) A
PPROVAL.—The 2023 Agreement to 13
Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact and the 2023 U.S.- 14
RMI Trust Fund Agreement, as submitted to Con-15
gress on October 17, 2023, are approved and incor-16
porated by reference. 17
(2) C
ONSENT OF CONGRESS .—Congress con-18
sents to the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 19
Agreement, as submitted to Congress on October 17, 20
2023. 21
(3) A
UTHORITY OF PRESIDENT .—Notwith-22
standing section 101(f) of the Compact of Free As-23
sociation Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 24
1921(f)), the President is authorized to bring into 25
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force and implement the agreements described in 1
paragraphs (1) and (2). 2
(c) R
EPUBLIC OFPALAU.— 3
(1) A
PPROVAL.—The 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 4
Review Agreement, as submitted to Congress on 5
June 15, 2023, is approved. 6
(2) A
UTHORITY OF PRESIDENT .—The President 7
is authorized to bring into force and implement the 8
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement. 9
(d) A
MENDMENTS, CHANGES, ORTERMINATION TO 10
C
OMPACTS ANDCERTAINAGREEMENTS.— 11
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any amendment to, change 12
to, or termination of all or any part of the 2023 13
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, 2023 Amended U.S.- 14
RMI Compact, or the U.S.-Palau Compact, by mu-15
tual agreement or unilateral action of the Govern-16
ment of the United States, shall not enter into force 17
until the date on which Congress has incorporated 18
the applicable amendment, change, or termination 19
into an Act of Congress. 20
(2) A
DDITIONAL ACTIONS AND AGREEMENTS .— 21
In addition to the Compacts described in paragraph 22
(1), the requirements of that paragraph shall apply 23
to— 24
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(A) any action of the Government of the 1
United States under the 2023 Amended U.S.- 2
FSM Compact, 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Com-3
pact, or U.S.-Palau Compact, including an ac-4
tion taken pursuant to section 431, 441, or 442 5
of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, 6
2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or U.S.- 7
Palau Compact; 8
(B) any amendment to, change to, or ter-9
mination of— 10
(i) the agreement described in section 11
462(a)(2) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 12
Compact; 13
(ii) the agreement described in section 14
462(a)(5) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 15
Compact; 16
(iii) an agreement concluded pursuant 17
to section 265 of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 18
FSM Compact; 19
(iv) an agreement concluded pursuant 20
to section 265 of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 21
RMI Compact; 22
(v) an agreement concluded pursuant 23
to section 177 of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 24
RMI Compact; 25
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(vi) Articles III and IV of the agree-1
ment described in section 462(b)(6) of the 2
2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 3
(vii) Articles III, IV, and X of the 4
agreement described in section 462(b)(6) 5
of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; 6
(viii) the agreement described in sec-7
tion 462(h) of the U.S.-Palau Compact; 8
and 9
(ix) Articles VI, XV, and XVII of the 10
agreement described in section 462(b)(7) 11
of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact 12
and 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact 13
and section 462(i) of the U.S.-Palau Com-14
pact. 15
(e) E
NTRYINTOFORCE OFFUTUREAMENDMENTS 16
TOSUBSIDIARYAGREEMENTS.—An agreement between 17
the United States and the Government of the Federated 18
States of Micronesia, the Government of the Republic of 19
the Marshall Islands, or the Government of the Republic 20
of Palau that would amend, change, or terminate any sub-21
sidiary agreement or portion of a subsidiary agreement 22
(other than an amendment to, change to, or termination 23
of an agreement described in subsection (d)) shall not 24
enter into force until the date that is 90 days after the 25
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date on which the President has transmitted to the Presi-1
dent of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Rep-2
resentatives— 3
(1) the agreement to amend, change, or termi-4
nate the subsidiary agreement; 5
(2) an explanation of the amendment, change, 6
or termination; 7
(3) a description of the reasons for the amend-8
ment, change, or termination; and 9
(4) in the case of an agreement that would 10
amend, change, or terminate any agreement de-11
scribed in section 462(b)(3) of the 2023 Amended 12
U.S.-FSM Compact or the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 13
Compact, a statement by the Secretary of Labor 14
that describes— 15
(A) the necessity of the amendment, 16
change, or termination; and 17
(B) any impacts of the amendment, 18
change, or termination. 19
SEC. 4. AGREEMENTS WITH FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO-20
NESIA. 21
(a) L
AWENFORCEMENTASSISTANCE.— 22
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Pursuant to sections 222 23
and 224 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, 24
the United States shall provide nonreimbursable 25
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technical and training assistance, as appropriate, in-1
cluding training and equipment for postal inspection 2
of illicit drugs and other contraband, to enable the 3
Government of the Federated States of Micronesia— 4
(A) to develop and adequately enforce laws 5
of the Federated States of Micronesia; and 6
(B) to cooperate with the United States in 7
the enforcement of criminal laws of the United 8
States. 9
(2) U
SE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS .—Funds ap-10
propriated pursuant to subsection (j) of section 105 11
of the Compact of Free Association Amendments 12
Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d) (as amended by sec-13
tion 8(j)) may be used in accordance with section 14
102(a) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-15
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921a(a)). 16
(b) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOJOINTECO-17
NOMICMANAGEMENTCOMMITTEE.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 3 United States ap-19
pointees (which are composed of the United States 20
chair and 2 other members from the Government of 21
the United States) to the Joint Economic Manage-22
ment Committee established under section 213 of 23
the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact (referred to 24
in this subsection as the ‘‘Committee’’) shall— 25
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(A) be voting members of the Committee; 1
and 2
(B) continue to be officers or employees of 3
the Federal Government. 4
(2) T
ERM; APPOINTMENT.—The 3 United 5
States members of the Committee described in para-6
graph (1) shall be appointed for a term of 2 years 7
as follows: 8
(A) 1 member shall be appointed by the 9
Secretary of State, in consultation with the Sec-10
retary of the Treasury. 11
(B) 1 member shall be appointed by the 12
Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with 13
the Secretary of the Treasury. 14
(C) 1 member shall be appointed by the 15
Interagency Group on Freely Associated States 16
established under section 7(d)(1). 17
(3) R
EAPPOINTMENT.—A United States mem-18
ber of the Committee appointed under paragraph (2) 19
may be reappointed for not more than 2 additional 20
2-year terms. 21
(4) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—Not fewer than 2 22
United States members of the Committee appointed 23
under paragraph (2) shall be individuals who— 24
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(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 1
training, are especially qualified in accounting, 2
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, grant ad-3
ministration, program management, or inter-4
national economics; and 5
(B) possess not less than 5 years of full- 6
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 7
analysis, compliance, grant administration, pro-8
gram management, or international economics. 9
(5) N
OTICE.— 10
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 11
after the date of appointment of a United 12
States member of the Committee under para-13
graph (2), the Secretary of the Interior shall 14
notify the appropriate committees of Congress 15
that an individual has been appointed as a vot-16
ing member of the Committee under that para-17
graph, including a statement prepared by the 18
Secretary of the Interior attesting to the quali-19
fications of the member described in paragraph 20
(4), subject to subparagraph (B). 21
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—For purposes of a 22
statement required under subparagraph (A)— 23
(i) in the case of a member appointed 24
under paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary of 25
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the Interior shall compile information on 1
the member provided to the Secretary of 2
the Interior by the Secretary of State on 3
request of the Secretary of the Interior; 4
and 5
(ii) in the case of a member appointed 6
under paragraph (2)(C), the Secretary of 7
the Interior shall compile information on 8
the member provided to the Secretary of 9
the Interior by the Interagency Group on 10
Freely Associated States established under 11
section 7(d)(1) on request of the Secretary 12
of the Interior. 13
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 14
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-15
ceives or completes any report required under the 16
2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related 17
subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 18
shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-19
tees of Congress. 20
(7) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 21
days after the date on which the Government of the 22
Federated States of Micronesia submits to the Com-23
mittee a report required under the 2023 Amended 24
U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related subsidiary agree-25
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ment, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to 1
the appropriate committees of Congress— 2
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-3
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 4
report is complete and accurate; or 5
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 6
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-7
port has not been timely submitted. 8
(c) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOJOINTTRUST 9
F
UNDCOMMITTEE.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 3 United States voting 11
members (which are composed of the United States 12
chair and 2 other members from the Government of 13
the United States) to the Joint Trust Fund Com-14
mittee established pursuant to the agreement de-15
scribed in section 462(b)(5) of the 2023 Amended 16
U.S.-FSM Compact (referred to in this subsection as 17
the ‘‘Committee’’) shall continue to be officers or 18
employees of the Federal Government. 19
(2) T
ERM; APPOINTMENT.—The 3 United 20
States members of the Committee described in para-21
graph (1) shall be appointed for a term not more 22
than 2 years as follows: 23
(A) 1 member shall be appointed by the 24
Secretary of State. 25
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(B) 1 member shall be appointed by the 1
Secretary of the Interior. 2
(C) 1 member shall be appointed by the 3
Secretary of the Treasury. 4
(3) R
EAPPOINTMENT.—A United States mem-5
ber of the Committee appointed under paragraph (2) 6
may be reappointed for not more than 2 additional 7
2-year terms. 8
(4) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—Not fewer than 2 mem-9
bers of the Committee appointed under paragraph 10
(2) shall be individuals who— 11
(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 12
training, are especially qualified in accounting, 13
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, financial 14
investment, grant administration, program 15
management, or international economics; and 16
(B) possess not less than 5 years of full- 17
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 18
analysis, compliance, financial investment, 19
grant administration, program management, or 20
international economics. 21
(5) N
OTICE.— 22
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 23
after the date of appointment of a United 24
States member to the Committee under para-25
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graph (2), the Secretary of the Interior shall 1
notify the appropriate committees of Congress 2
that an individual has been appointed as a vot-3
ing member of the Committee under that para-4
graph, including a statement attesting to the 5
qualifications of the member described in para-6
graph (4), subject to subparagraph (B). 7
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—For purposes of a 8
statement required under subparagraph (A)— 9
(i) in the case of a member appointed 10
under paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary of 11
the Interior shall compile information on 12
the member provided to the Secretary of 13
the Interior by the Secretary of State on 14
request of the Secretary of the Interior; 15
and 16
(ii) in the case of a member appointed 17
under paragraph (2)(C), the Secretary of 18
the Interior shall compile information on 19
the member provided to the Secretary of 20
the Interior by the Secretary of the Treas-21
ury on request of the Secretary of the Inte-22
rior. 23
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 24
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-25
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ceives or completes any report required under the 1
2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related 2
subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 3
shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-4
tees of Congress. 5
(7) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 6
days after the date on which the Government of the 7
Federated States of Micronesia submits to the Com-8
mittee a report required under the 2023 Amended 9
U.S.-FSM Compact, or any related subsidiary agree-10
ment, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to 11
the appropriate committees of Congress— 12
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-13
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 14
report is complete and accurate; or 15
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 16
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-17
port has not been timely submitted. 18
SEC. 5. AGREEMENTS WITH AND OTHER PROVISIONS RE-19
LATED TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL 20
ISLANDS. 21
(a) L
AWENFORCEMENTASSISTANCE.— 22
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Pursuant to sections 222 23
and 224 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, 24
the United States shall provide nonreimbursable 25
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technical and training assistance, as appropriate, in-1
cluding training and equipment for postal inspection 2
of illicit drugs and other contraband, to enable the 3
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Is-4
lands— 5
(A) to develop and adequately enforce laws 6
of the Marshall Islands; and 7
(B) to cooperate with the United States in 8
the enforcement of criminal laws of the United 9
States. 10
(2) U
SE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS .—Funds ap-11
propriated pursuant to subsection (j) of section 105 12
of the Compact of Free Association Amendments 13
Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d) (as amended by sec-14
tion 8(j)) may be used in accordance with section 15
103(a) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-16
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(a)). 17
(b) E
SPOUSALPROVISIONS.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Congress reaffirms that— 19
(A) section 103(g)(1) of the Compact of 20
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 21
1903(g)(1)) and section 103(e)(1) of the Com-22
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 23
2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(e)(1)) provided that ‘‘It 24
is the intention of the Congress of the United 25
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States that the provisions of section 177 of the 1
Compact of Free Association and the Agree-2
ment between the Government of the United 3
States and the Government of the Marshall Is-4
lands for the Implementation of Section 177 of 5
the Compact (hereafter in this subsection re-6
ferred to as the ‘Section 177 Agreement’) con-7
stitute a full and final settlement of all claims 8
described in Articles X and XI of the Section 9
177 Agreement, and that any such claims be 10
terminated and barred except insofar as pro-11
vided for in the Section 177 Agreement.’’; and 12
(B) section 103(g)(2) of the Compact of 13
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 14
1903(g)(2)) and section 103(e)(2) of the Com-15
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 16
2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(e)(2)) provided that 17
‘‘In furtherance of the intention of Congress as 18
stated in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the 19
Section 177 Agreement is hereby ratified and 20
approved. It is the explicit understanding and 21
intent of Congress that the jurisdictional limita-22
tions set forth in Article XII of such Agreement 23
are enacted solely and exclusively to accomplish 24
the objective of Article X of such Agreement 25
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and only as a clarification of the effect of Arti-1
cle X, and are not to be construed or imple-2
mented separately from Article X.’’. 3
(2) E
FFECT.—Nothing in the 2023 Agreement 4
to Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact affects the appli-5
cation of the provisions of law reaffirmed by para-6
graph (1). 7
(c) C
ERTAINSECTION177 AGREEMENT PROVI-8
SIONS.—Congress reaffirms that— 9
(1) Article IX of the Agreement Between the 10
Government of the United States and the Govern-11
ment of the Marshall Islands for the Implementation 12
of Section 177 of the Compact of Free Association, 13
done at Majuro June 25, 1983, provided that ‘‘If 14
loss or damage to property and person of the citi-15
zens of the Marshall Islands, resulting from the Nu-16
clear Testing Program, arises or is discovered after 17
the effective date of this Agreement, and such inju-18
ries were not and could not reasonably have been 19
identified as of the effective date of this Agreement, 20
and if such injuries render the provisions of this 21
Agreement manifestly inadequate, the Government 22
of the Marshall Islands may request that the Gov-23
ernment of the United States provide for such inju-24
ries by submitting such a request to the Congress of 25
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the United States for its consideration. It is under-1
stood that this Article does not commit the Congress 2
of the United States to authorize and appropriate 3
funds.’’; and 4
(2) section 3(a) of Article XIII of the agree-5
ment described in paragraph (1) provided that ‘‘The 6
Government of the United States and the Govern-7
ment of the Marshall Islands shall consult at the re-8
quest of either of them on matters relating to the 9
provisions of this Agreement.’’. 10
(d) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOJOINTECO-11
NOMICMANAGEMENT AND FINANCIALACCOUNTABILITY 12
C
OMMITTEE.— 13
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 2 United States ap-14
pointees (which are composed of the United States 15
chair and 1 other member from the Government of 16
the United States) to the Joint Economic Manage-17
ment and Financial Accountability Committee estab-18
lished under section 214 of the 2003 Amended U.S.- 19
RMI Compact (referred to in this subsection as the 20
‘‘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 2 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
(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.—At least 1 United States 15
member of the Committee appointed under para-16
graph (2) shall be an individual who— 17
(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 18
training, is especially qualified in accounting, 19
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, grant ad-20
ministration, program management, or inter-21
national economics; and 22
(B) possesses not less than 5 years of full- 23
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 24
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analysis, compliance, grant administration, pro-1
gram management, or 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 member described in paragraph (4), sub-12
ject to subparagraph (B). 13
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—For purposes of a 14
statement required under subparagraph (A), in 15
the case of a member appointed under para-16
graph (2)(A), the Secretary of the Interior shall 17
compile information on the member provided to 18
the Secretary of the Interior by the Secretary of 19
State on request of the Secretary of the Inte-20
rior. 21
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 22
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-23
ceives or completes any report required under the 24
2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related 25
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subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 1
shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-2
tees of Congress. 3
(7) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 4
days after the date on which the Government of the 5
Republic of the Marshall Islands submits to the 6
Committee a report required under the 2023 7
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related sub-8
sidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior shall 9
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress— 10
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-11
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 12
report is complete and accurate; or 13
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 14
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-15
port has not been timely submitted. 16
(e) U
NITEDSTATESAPPOINTEES TOTRUSTFUND 17
C
OMMITTEE.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The 3 United States voting 19
members (which are composed of the United States 20
chair and 2 other members from the Government of 21
the United States) to the Trust Fund Committee es-22
tablished pursuant to the agreement described in 23
section 462(b)(5) of the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI 24
Compact (referred to in this subsection as the 25
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‘‘Committee’’) shall continue to be officers or em-1
ployees of the Federal Government. 2
(2) T
ERM; APPOINTMENT.—The 3 United 3
States members of the Committee described in para-4
graph (1) shall be appointed for a term not more 5
than 5 years as follows: 6
(A) 1 member shall be appointed by the 7
Secretary of State. 8
(B) 1 member shall be appointed by the 9
Secretary of the Interior. 10
(C) 1 member shall be appointed by the 11
Secretary of the Treasury. 12
(3) R
EAPPOINTMENT.—A United States mem-13
ber of the Committee appointed under paragraph (2) 14
may be reappointed for not more than 2 additional 15
2-year terms. 16
(4) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—Not fewer than 2 mem-17
bers of the Committee appointed under paragraph 18
(2) shall be individuals who— 19
(A) by reason of knowledge, experience, or 20
training, are especially qualified in accounting, 21
auditing, budget analysis, compliance, financial 22
investment, grant administration, program 23
management, or international economics; and 24
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(B) possess not less than 5 years of full- 1
time experience in accounting, auditing, budget 2
analysis, compliance, financial investment, 3
grant administration, program management, or 4
international economics. 5
(5) N
OTICE.— 6
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 7
after the date of appointment of a United 8
States Member under paragraph (2), the Sec-9
retary of the Interior shall notify the appro-10
priate committees of Congress that an indi-11
vidual has been appointed as a voting member 12
of the Committee under that paragraph, includ-13
ing a statement attesting to the qualifications 14
of the appointee described in paragraph (4), 15
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 Secretary of the Treas-5
ury on request of the Secretary of the Inte-6
rior. 7
(6) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 8
90 days after the date on which the Committee re-9
ceives or completes any report required under the 10
2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related 11
subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior 12
shall submit the report to the appropriate commit-13
tees of Congress. 14
(7) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 15
days after the date on which the Government of the 16
Republic of the Marshall Islands submits to the 17
Committee a report required under the 2023 18
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or any related sub-19
sidiary agreement, the Secretary of the Interior shall 20
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress— 21
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-22
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 23
report is complete and accurate; or 24
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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
(f) F
OURATOLLHEALTHCAREPROGRAM.—Con-4
gress reaffirms that— 5
(1) section 103(j)(1) of the Compact of Free 6
Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1903(j)(1)) and 7
section 103(h)(1) of the Compact of Free Associa-8
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 9
1921b(h)(1)) provided that services ‘‘provided by the 10
United States Public Health Service or any other 11
United States agency pursuant to section 1(a) of Ar-12
ticle II of the Agreement for the Implementation of 13
Section 177 of the Compact (hereafter in this sub-14
section referred to as the ‘Section 177 Agreement’) 15
shall be only for services to the people of the Atolls 16
of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utrik who were 17
affected by the consequences of the United States 18
nuclear testing program, pursuant to the program 19
described in Public Law 95–134 and Public Law 20
96–205 and their descendants (and any other per-21
sons identified as having been so affected if such 22
identification occurs in the manner described in such 23
public laws). Nothing in this subsection shall be con-24
strued as prejudicial to the views or policies of the 25
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Government of the Marshall Islands as to the per-1
sons affected by the consequences of the United 2
States nuclear testing program.’’; 3
(2) section 103(j)(2) of the Compact of Free 4
Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1903(j)(2)) and 5
section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of Free Associa-6
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 7
1921b(h)(2)) provided that ‘‘at the end of the first 8
year after the effective date of the Compact and at 9
the end of each year thereafter, the providing agency 10
or agencies shall return to the Government of the 11
Marshall Islands any unexpended funds to be re-12
turned to the Fund Manager (as described in Article 13
I of the Section 177 Agreement) to be covered into 14
the Fund to be available for future use.’’; and 15
(3) section 103(j)(3) of the Compact of Free 16
Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1903(j)(3)) and 17
section 103(h)(3) of the Compact of Free Associa-18
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 19
1921b(h)(3)) provided that ‘‘the Fund Manager 20
shall retain the funds returned by the Government 21
of the Marshall Islands pursuant to paragraph (2) 22
of this subsection, shall invest and manage such 23
funds, and at the end of 15 years after the effective 24
date of the Compact, shall make from the total 25
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amount so retained and the proceeds thereof annual 1
disbursements sufficient to continue to make pay-2
ments for the provision of health services as speci-3
fied in paragraph (1) of this subsection to such ex-4
tent as may be provided in contracts between the 5
Government of the Marshall Islands and appropriate 6
United States providers of such health services.’’. 7
(g) R
ADIOLOGICALHEALTHCAREPROGRAM.—Not-8
withstanding any other provision of law, on the request 9
of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 10
the President (through an appropriate department or 11
agency of the United States) shall continue to provide spe-12
cial medical care and logistical support for the remaining 13
members of the population of Rongelap and Utrik who 14
were exposed to radiation resulting from the 1954 United 15
States thermonuclear ‘‘Bravo’’ test, pursuant to Public 16
Law 95–134 (91 Stat. 1159) and Public Law 96–205 (94 17
Stat. 84). 18
(h) A
GRICULTURAL AND FOODPROGRAMS.— 19
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Congress reaffirms that— 20
(A) section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of 21
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 22
1903(h)(2)) and section 103(f)(2)(A) of the 23
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act 24
of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(f)(2)(A)) provided 25
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that notwithstanding ‘‘any other provision of 1
law, upon the request of the Government of the 2
Marshall Islands, for the first fifteen years 3
after the effective date of the Compact, the 4
President (either through an appropriate de-5
partment or agency of the United States or by 6
contract with a United States firm or by a 7
grant to the Government of the Republic of the 8
Marshall Islands which may further contract 9
only with a United States firm or a Republic of 10
the Marshall Islands firm, the owners, officers 11
and majority of the employees of which are citi-12
zens of the United States or the Republic of the 13
Marshall Islands) shall provide technical and 14
other assistance without reimbursement, to con-15
tinue the planting and agricultural maintenance 16
program on Enewetak; without reimbursement, 17
to continue the food programs of the Bikini, 18
Rongelap, Utrik, and Enewetak people de-19
scribed in section 1(d) of Article II of the Sub-20
sidiary Agreement for the Implementation of 21
Section 177 of the Compact and for continued 22
waterborne transportation of agricultural prod-23
ucts to Enewetak including operations and 24
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maintenance of the vessel used for such pur-1
poses.’’; 2
(B) section 103(h)(2) of the Compact of 3
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 4
1903(h)(2)) and section 103(f)(2)(B) of the 5
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act 6
of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(f)(2)(B)) provided 7
that ‘‘The President shall ensure the assistance 8
provided under these programs reflects the 9
changes in the population since the inception of 10
such programs.’’; and 11
(C) section 103(h)(3) of the Compact of 12
Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 13
1903(h)(3)) and section 103(f)(3) of the Com-14
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 15
2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921b(f)(3)) provided that 16
‘‘payments under this subsection shall be pro-17
vided to such extent or in such amounts as are 18
necessary for services and other assistance pro-19
vided pursuant to this subsection. It is the 20
sense of Congress that after the periods of time 21
specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this sub-22
section, consideration will be given to such addi-23
tional funding for these programs as may be 24
necessary.’’. 25
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(2) PLANTING AND AGRICULTURAL MAINTE -1
NANCE PROGRAM .—The Secretary of the Interior 2
may provide grants to the Government of the Re-3
public of the Marshall Islands to carry out a plant-4
ing and agricultural maintenance program on Bikini, 5
Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utrik. 6
(3) F
OOD PROGRAMS.—The Secretary of Agri-7
culture may provide, without reimbursement, food 8
programs to the people of the Republic of the Mar-9
shall Islands. 10
SEC. 6. AGREEMENTS WITH AND OTHER PROVISIONS RE-11
LATED TO THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU. 12
(a) B
ILATERAL ECONOMIC CONSULTATIONS.— 13
United States participation in the annual economic con-14
sultations referred to in Article 8 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 15
Compact Review Agreement shall be by officers or employ-16
ees of the Federal Government. 17
(b) E
CONOMICADVISORYGROUP.— 18
(1) Q
UALIFICATIONS.—A member of the Eco-19
nomic Advisory Group described in Article 7 of the 20
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement (re-21
ferred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Advisory 22
Group’’) who is appointed by the Secretary of the 23
Interior shall be an individual who, by reason of 24
knowledge, experience, or training, is especially 25
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qualified in private sector business development, eco-1
nomic development, or national development. 2
(2) F
UNDS.—With respect to the Advisory 3
Group, the Secretary of the Interior may use avail-4
able funds for— 5
(A) the costs of the 2 members of the Ad-6
visory Group designated by the United States 7
in accordance with Article 7 of the 2023 U.S.- 8
Palau Compact Review Agreement; 9
(B) 50 percent of the costs of the 5th 10
member of the Advisory Group designated by 11
the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with 12
the Article described in subparagraph (A); and 13
(C) the costs of— 14
(i) technical and administrative assist-15
ance for the Advisory Group; and 16
(ii) other support necessary for the 17
Advisory Group to accomplish the purpose 18
of the Advisory Group. 19
(3) R
EPORTS TO CONGRESS .—Not later than 20
90 days after the date on which the Advisory Group 21
receives or completes any report required under the 22
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, or 23
any related subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of 24
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the Interior shall submit the report to the appro-1
priate committees of Congress. 2
(c) R
EPORTS TOCONGRESS.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 4
the date on which the Government of the Republic 5
of Palau completes any report required under the 6
2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, or 7
any related subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of 8
the Interior shall submit the report to the appro-9
priate committees of Congress. 10
(2) N
OTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 11
days after the date on which the Government of the 12
Republic of Palau submits a report required under 13
the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, or 14
any related subsidiary agreement, the Secretary of 15
the Interior shall submit to the appropriate commit-16
tees of Congress— 17
(A) if the report is submitted by the appli-18
cable deadline, written notice attesting that the 19
report is complete and accurate; or 20
(B) if the report is not submitted by the 21
applicable deadline, written notice that the re-22
port has not been timely submitted. 23
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SEC. 7. OVERSIGHT PROVISIONS. 1
(a) A
UTHORITIES AND DUTIES OF THE COMP-2
TROLLERGENERAL OF THEUNITEDSTATES.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of 4
the United States (including any duly authorized 5
representative of the Comptroller General of the 6
United States) shall have the authorities necessary 7
to carry out the responsibilities of the Comptroller 8
General of the United States under— 9
(A) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Com-10
pact and related subsidiary agreements, includ-11
ing the authorities and privileges described in 12
section 102(b) of the Compact of Free Associa-13
tion Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 14
1921a(b)); 15
(B) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact 16
and related subsidiary agreements, including 17
the authorities and privileges described in sec-18
tion 103(k) of the Compact of Free Association 19
Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 20
1921b(k)); and 21
(C) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review 22
Agreement, related subsidiary agreements, and 23
the authorities described in appendix D of the 24
‘‘Agreement between the Government of the 25
United States of America and the Government 26
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of the Republic of Palau Following the Compact 1
of Free Association Section 432 Review’’ signed 2
by the United States and the Republic of Palau 3
on September 3, 2010. 4
(2) R
EPORTS.—Not later than 18 months after 5
the date of enactment of this Act, and every 4 years 6
thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United 7
States shall submit to the appropriate committees of 8
Congress a report with respect to the Freely Associ-9
ated States, including addressing— 10
(A) the topics described in subparagraphs 11
(A) through (E) of section 104(h)(1) of the 12
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act 13
of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921c(h)(1)), except that 14
for purposes of a report submitted under this 15
paragraph, the report shall address those topics 16
with respect to each of the Freely Associated 17
States; and 18
(B) the effectiveness of administrative 19
oversight by the United States of the Freely As-20
sociated States. 21
(b) S
ECRETARY OF THE INTERIOROVERSIGHTAU-22
THORITY.—The Secretary of the Interior shall have the 23
authority necessary to fulfill the responsibilities for moni-24
toring and managing the funds appropriated to the Com-25
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pact of Free Association account of the Department of the 1
Interior by section 10(a) to carry out— 2
(1) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 3
(2) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; 4
(3) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review 5
Agreement; and 6
(4) subsidiary agreements. 7
(c) P
OSTMASTERGENERALOVERSIGHTAUTHOR-8
ITY.—The Postmaster General shall have the authority 9
necessary to fulfill the responsibilities for monitoring and 10
managing the funds appropriated to the United States 11
Postal Service under paragraph (1) of section 10(b) and 12
deposited in the Postal Service Fund under paragraph 13
(2)(A) of that section to carry out— 14
(1) section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amended 15
U.S.-FSM Compact; 16
(2) section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amended 17
U.S.-RMI Compact; 18
(3) section 221(a)(2) of the U.S.-Palau Com-19
pact; and 20
(4) Article 6(a) of the 2023 U.S.-Palau Com-21
pact Review Agreement. 22
(d) I
NTERAGENCYGROUP ONFREELYASSOCIATED 23
S
TATES.— 24
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(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President, in con-1
sultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary 2
of the Interior, and the Secretary of Defense, shall 3
establish an Interagency Group on Freely Associated 4
States (referred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Inter-5
agency Group’’). 6
(2) P
URPOSE.—The purposes of the Inter-7
agency Group are— 8
(A) to coordinate development and imple-9
mentation of executive branch policies, pro-10
grams, services, and other activities in or relat-11
ing to the Freely Associated States; and 12
(B) to provide policy guidance, rec-13
ommendations, and oversight to Federal agen-14
cies, departments, and instrumentalities with 15
respect to the implementation of— 16
(i) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 17
Compact; 18
(ii) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 19
Compact; and 20
(iii) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 21
Review Agreement. 22
(3) M
EMBERSHIP.—The Interagency Group 23
shall consist of— 24
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(A) the Secretary of State, who shall serve 1
as co-chair of the Interagency Group; 2
(B) the Secretary of the Interior, who shall 3
serve as co-chair of the Interagency Group; 4
(C) the Secretary of Defense; 5
(D) the Secretary of the Treasury; 6
(E) the heads of relevant Federal agencies, 7
departments, and instrumentalities carrying out 8
obligations under— 9
(i) sections 131 and 132 of the 2003 10
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact and sub-11
sections (a) and (b) of section 221 and sec-12
tion 261 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 13
Compact; 14
(ii) sections 131 and 132 of the 2003 15
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact and sub-16
sections (a) and (b) of section 221 and sec-17
tion 261 of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 18
Compact; 19
(iii) sections 131 and 132 and sub-20
sections (a) and (b) of section 221 of the 21
U.S.-Palau Compact; 22
(iv) Article 6 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 23
Compact Review Agreement; 24
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(v) any applicable subsidiary agree-1
ment; and 2
(vi) section 8; and 3
(F) the head of any other Federal agency, 4
department, or instrumentality that the Sec-5
retary of State or the Secretary of the Interior 6
may designate. 7
(4) D
UTIES OF SECRETARY OF STATE AND SEC -8
RETARY OF THE INTERIOR .—The Secretary of State 9
(or a senior official designee of the Secretary of 10
State) and the Secretary of the Interior (or a senior 11
official designee of the Secretary of the Interior) 12
shall— 13
(A) co-lead and preside at a meeting of the 14
Interagency Group not less frequently than an-15
nually; 16
(B) determine, in consultation with the 17
Secretary of Defense, the agenda for meetings 18
of the Interagency Group; and 19
(C) facilitate and coordinate the work of 20
the Interagency Group. 21
(5) D
UTIES OF THE INTERAGENCY GROUP .— 22
The Interagency Group shall— 23
(A) provide advice on the establishment or 24
implementation of policies relating to the Freely 25
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Associated States to the President, acting 1
through the Office of Intergovernmental Af-2
fairs, in the form of a written report not less 3
frequently than annually; 4
(B) obtain information and advice relating 5
to the Freely Associated States from the Presi-6
dents, other elected officials, and members of 7
civil society of the Freely Associated States, in-8
cluding through the members of the Inter-9
agency Group (including senior official des-10
ignees of the members) meeting not less fre-11
quently than annually with any Presidents of 12
the Freely Associated States who elect to par-13
ticipate; 14
(C) at the request of the head of any Fed-15
eral agency (or a senior official designee of the 16
head of a Federal agency) who is a member of 17
the Interagency Group, promptly review and 18
provide advice on a policy or policy implementa-19
tion action affecting 1 or more of the Freely 20
Associated States proposed by the Federal 21
agency, department, or instrumentality; and 22
(D) facilitate coordination of relevant poli-23
cies, programs, initiatives, and activities involv-24
ing 1 or more of the Freely Associated States, 25
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including ensuring coherence and avoiding du-1
plication between programs, initiatives, and ac-2
tivities conducted pursuant to a Compact with 3
a Freely Associated State and non-Compact 4
programs, initiatives, and activities. 5
(6) R
EPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after the 6
date of enactment of this joint resolution and each 7
year thereafter in which a Compact of Free Associa-8
tion with a Freely Associated State is in effect, the 9
President shall submit to the majority leader and 10
minority leader of the Senate, the Speaker and mi-11
nority leader of the House of Representatives, and 12
the appropriate committees of Congress a report 13
that describes the activities and recommendations of 14
the Interagency Group during the applicable year. 15
(e) F
EDERALAGENCYCOORDINATION.—The head of 16
any Federal agency providing programs and services to 17
the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 18
Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau shall coordinate 19
with the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 20
State regarding the provision of the programs and serv-21
ices. 22
(f) F
OREIGNLOANS ORDEBT.—Congress reaffirms 23
that— 24
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(1) the foreign loans or debt of the Government 1
of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Govern-2
ment of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the 3
Government of the Republic of Palau shall not con-4
stitute an obligation of the United States; and 5
(2) the full faith and credit of the United 6
States Government shall not be pledged for the pay-7
ment and performance of any foreign loan or debt 8
referred to in paragraph (1) without specific further 9
authorization. 10
(g) C
OMPACTCOMPILATION.—Not later than 180 11
days after the date of enactment of this joint resolution, 12
the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the appro-13
priate committees of Congress a report that includes a 14
compilation of the Compact of Free Association with the 15
Federated State of Micronesia, the Compact of Free Asso-16
ciation with the Republic of Palau, and the Compact of 17
Free Association with Republic of the Marshall Islands. 18
(h) P
UBLICATION; REVISION BY THEOFFICE OF THE 19
L
AWREVISIONCOUNSEL.— 20
(1) P
UBLICATION.—In publishing this joint res-21
olution in slip form and in the United States Stat-22
utes at Large pursuant to section 112 of title 1, 23
United States Code, the Archivist of the United 24
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States shall include after the date of approval at the 1
end an appendix setting forth the text of— 2
(A) the 2023 Agreement to Amend the 3
U.S.-FSM Compact; and 4
(B) the 2023 Agreement to Amend the 5
U.S.-RMI Compact. 6
(2) R
EVISION BY THE OFFICE OF THE LAW RE -7
VISION COUNSEL.—The Office of the Law Revision 8
Counsel is directed to revise— 9
(A) the 2003 Amended U.S.-FSM Com-10
pact set forth in the note following section 1921 11
of title 48, United States Code, to reflect the 12
amendments to the 2003 Amended U.S.-FSM 13
Compact made by the 2023 Agreement to 14
Amend the U.S.-FSM Compact; and 15
(B) the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact 16
set forth in the note following section 1921 of 17
title 48, United States Code, to reflect the 18
amendments to the 2003 Amended U.S.-RMI 19
Compact made by the 2023 Agreement to 20
Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact. 21
SEC. 8. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING THE FREELY 22
ASSOCIATED STATES. 23
(a) A
UTHORIZATION FORVETERANS’ SERVICES.— 24
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(1) DEFINITION OF FREELY ASSOCIATED 1
STATES.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘Freely Asso-2
ciated States’’ means— 3
(A) the Federated States of Micronesia, 4
during such time as it is a party to the Com-5
pact of Free Association set forth in section 6
201 of the Compact of Free Association Act of 7
1985 (Public Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 8
note); 9
(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 10
during such time as it is a party to the Com-11
pact of Free Association set forth in section 12
201 of the Compact of Free Association Act of 13
1985 (Public Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 14
note); and 15
(C) the Republic of Palau, during such 16
time as it is a party to the Compact of Free As-17
sociation between the United States and the 18
Government of Palau set forth in section 201 of 19
Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘Joint Resolution to 20
approve the ‘Compact of Free Association’ be-21
tween the United States and the Government of 22
Palau, and for other purposes’’ (Public Law 23
99–658; 48 U.S.C. 1931 note). 24
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(2) HOSPITAL CARE, MEDICAL SERVICES, AND 1
NURSING HOME CARE ABROAD .—Section 1724 of 2
title 38, United States Code, is amended— 3
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘sub-4
sections (b) and (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections 5
(b), (c), and (f)’’; and 6
(B) by adding at the end the following: 7
‘‘(f)(1) The Secretary may furnish hospital care and 8
medical services in the Freely Associated States to a vet-9
eran who is otherwise eligible to receive hospital care and 10
medical services. 11
‘‘(2) In furnishing hospital care and medical services 12
under paragraph (1), the Secretary may furnish hospital 13
care and medical services through— 14
‘‘(A) contracts or other agreements; 15
‘‘(B) reimbursement; or 16
‘‘(C) the direct provision of care by health care 17
personnel of the Department. 18
‘‘(3) In furnishing hospital care and medical services 19
under paragraph (1), the Secretary may furnish hospital 20
care and medical services for any condition regardless of 21
whether the condition is connected to the service of the 22
veteran in the Armed Forces. 23
‘‘(4)(A) A veteran who has received hospital care or 24
medical services in a country pursuant to this subsection 25
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shall remain eligible, to the extent determined advisable 1
and practicable by the Secretary, for hospital care or med-2
ical services in that country regardless of whether the 3
country continues to qualify as a Freely Associated State 4
for purposes of this subsection. 5
‘‘(B) If the Secretary determines it is no longer advis-6
able or practicable to allow veterans described in subpara-7
graph (A) to remain eligible for hospital care or medical 8
services pursuant to such subparagraph, the Secretary 9
shall— 10
‘‘(i) provide direct notice of that determination 11
to such veterans; and 12
‘‘(ii) publish that determination and the reasons 13
for that determination in the Federal Register. 14
‘‘(5) In this subsection, the term ‘Freely Associated 15
States’ means— 16
‘‘(A) the Federated States of Micronesia, 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); 21
‘‘(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 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); and 2
‘‘(C) the Republic of Palau, during such time as 3
it is a party to the Compact of Free Association be-4
tween the United States and the Government of 5
Palau set forth in section 201 of Joint Resolution 6
entitled ‘Joint Resolution to approve the ‘‘Compact 7
of Free Association’’ between the United States and 8
the Government of Palau, and for other purposes’ 9
(Public Law 99–658; 48 U.S.C. 1931 note).’’. 10
(3) B
ENEFICIARY TRAVEL.—Section 111 of title 11
38, United States Code, is amended by adding at 12
the end the following: 13
‘‘(h)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 14
the Secretary may make payments to or for any person 15
traveling in, to, or from the Freely Associated States for 16
receipt of care or services authorized under section 17
1724(f) of this title. 18
‘‘(2) A person who has received payment for travel 19
in a country pursuant to this subsection shall remain eligi-20
ble for payment for such travel in that country regardless 21
of whether the country continues to qualify as a Freely 22
Associated State for purposes of this subsection. 23
‘‘(3) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to 24
carry out this subsection. 25
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‘‘(4) In this subsection, the term ‘Freely Associated 1
States’ means— 2
‘‘(A) the Federated States of Micronesia, 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); 7
‘‘(B) the Republic of the Marshall Islands, dur-8
ing such time as it is a party to the Compact of 9
Free Association set forth in section 201 of the 10
Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (Public 11
Law 99–239; 48 U.S.C. 1901 note); and 12
‘‘(C) the Republic of Palau, during such time as 13
it is a party to the Compact of Free Association be-14
tween the United States and the Government of 15
Palau set forth in section 201 of Joint Resolution 16
entitled ‘Joint Resolution to approve the ‘‘Compact 17
of Free Association’’ between the United States and 18
the Government of Palau, and for other purposes’ 19
(Public Law 99–658; 48 U.S.C. 1931 note).’’. 20
(4) L
EGAL ISSUES.— 21
(A) H
EALTH SERVICES.—The Secretary of 22
Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the Sec-23
retary of State, shall work with the govern-24
ments of the Freely Associated States to facili-25
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tate the furnishing of health services, including 1
telehealth, under the laws administered by the 2
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to veterans in the 3
Freely Associated States, such as by address-4
ing— 5
(i) licensure, certification, registra-6
tion, and tort issues relating to health care 7
personnel; and 8
(ii) matters relating to delivery of 9
pharmaceutical products and medical sur-10
gical products, including delivery of such 11
products through the Consolidated Mail 12
Outpatient Pharmacy of the Department 13
of Veterans Affairs, to the Freely Associ-14
ated States. 15
(B) L
ICENSURE OF HEALTH CARE PRO -16
FESSIONALS PROVIDING TREATMENT VIA TELE -17
MEDICINE IN THE FREELY ASSOCIATED 18
STATES.—Section 1730C(a) of title 38, United 19
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘any 20
State’’ and inserting ‘‘any State or any of the 21
Freely Associated States (as defined in section 22
1724(f) of this title)’’. 23
(C) P
AYMENT OF CLAIMS.—The Secretary 24
of Veterans Affairs may pay tort claims, in the 25
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manner authorized in the first paragraph of 1
section 2672 of title 28, United States Code, 2
when such claims arise in the Freely Associated 3
States in connection with furnishing hospital 4
care or medical services or providing medical 5
consultation or medical advice to a veteran 6
under the laws administered by the Secretary, 7
including through a remote or telehealth pro-8
gram. 9
(5) O
UTREACH AND ASSESSMENT OF OP -10
TIONS.—During the 1-year period beginning on the 11
date of enactment of this joint resolution, the Sec-12
retary of Veterans Affairs shall, subject to the avail-13
ability of appropriations— 14
(A) conduct robust outreach to, and en-15
gage with, each government of the Freely Asso-16
ciated States; 17
(B) assess options for the delivery of care 18
through the use of authorities provided pursu-19
ant to the amendments made by this sub-20
section; and 21
(C) increase staffing as necessary to con-22
duct outreach under subparagraph (A). 23
(b) A
UTHORIZATION OFEDUCATIONPROGRAMS.— 24
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(1) ELIGIBILITY.—For fiscal year 2024 and 1
each fiscal year thereafter, the Government of the 2
United States shall— 3
(A) continue to make available to the Fed-4
erated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 5
Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, 6
grants for services to individuals eligible for 7
such services under part B of the Individuals 8
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 9
1411 et seq.) to the extent that those services 10
continue to be available to individuals in the 11
United States; 12
(B) continue to make available to the Fed-13
erated States of Micronesia and the Republic of 14
the Marshall Islands and make available to the 15
Republic of Palau, competitive grants under the 16
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 17
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), the Carl D. 18
Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 19
2006 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.), and part D of 20
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 21
(20 U.S.C. 1450 et seq.), to the extent that 22
those grants continue to be available to State 23
and local governments in the United States; 24
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(C) continue to make grants available to 1
the Republic of Palau under part A of title I of 2
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 3
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.), the Adult 4
Education and Family Literacy Act (29 U.S.C. 5
3271 et seq.), and the Carl D. Perkins Career 6
and Technical Education Act of 2006 (20 7
U.S.C. 2301 et seq.); 8
(D) continue to make available to eligible 9
institutions of higher education in the Republic 10
of Palau and make available to eligible institu-11
tions of higher education in the Federated 12
States of Micronesia and the Republic of the 13
Marshall Islands and to students enrolled in 14
those institutions of higher education, and to 15
students who are citizens of the Federated 16
States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Mar-17
shall Islands, and the Republic of Palau and 18
enrolled in institutions of higher education in 19
the United States and territories of the United 20
States, grants under— 21
(i) subpart 1 of part A of title IV of 22
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 23
U.S.C. 1070a et seq.); 24
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(ii) subpart 3 of part A of title IV of 1
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 2
U.S.C. 1070b et seq.); and 3
(iii) part C of title IV of the Higher 4
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087– 5
51 et seq.); 6
(E) require, as a condition of eligibility for 7
a public institution of higher education in any 8
State (as defined in section 103 of the Higher 9
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1003)) that 10
is not a Freely Associated State to participate 11
in or receive funds under any program under 12
title IV of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), 13
that the institution charge students who are 14
citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, 15
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Re-16
public of Palau tuition for attendance at a rate 17
that is not greater than the rate charged for 18
residents of the State in which such public in-19
stitution of higher education is located; and 20
(F) continue to make available, to eligible 21
institutions of higher education, secondary 22
schools, and nonprofit organizations in the Fed-23
erated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 24
Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, 25
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competitive grants under the Higher Education 1
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.). 2
(2) O
THER FORMULA GRANTS .—Except as pro-3
vided in paragraph (1), the Secretary of Education 4
shall not make a grant under any formula grant pro-5
gram administered by the Department of Education 6
to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic 7
of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau. 8
(3) G
RANTS TO THE FREELY ASSOCIATED 9
STATES UNDER PART B OF THE INDIVIDUALS WITH 10
DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT .—Section 611(b)(1) 11
of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 12
(20 U.S.C. 1411(b)(1)) is amended by striking sub-13
paragraph (A) and inserting the following: 14
‘‘(A) F
UNDS RESERVED .—From the 15
amount appropriated for any fiscal year under 16
subsection (i), the Secretary shall reserve not 17
more than 1 percent, which shall be used as fol-18
lows: 19
‘‘(i) To provide assistance to the out-20
lying areas in accordance with their respec-21
tive populations of individuals aged 3 22
through 21. 23
‘‘(ii)(I) To provide each freely associ-24
ated State a grant so that no freely associ-25
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ated State receives a lesser share of the 1
total funds reserved for the freely associ-2
ated State than the freely associated State 3
received of those funds for fiscal year 4
2023. 5
‘‘(II) Each freely associated State 6
shall establish its eligibility under this sub-7
paragraph consistent with the require-8
ments for a State under section 612. 9
‘‘(III) The funds provided to each 10
freely associated State under this part may 11
be used to provide, to each infant or tod-12
dler with a disability (as defined in section 13
632), either a free appropriate public edu-14
cation, consistent with section 612, or 15
early intervention services consistent with 16
part C, notwithstanding the application 17
and eligibility requirements of sections 18
634(2), 635, and 637.’’. 19
(4) T
ECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE ELE -20
MENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 21
1965.—The Elementary and Secondary Education 22
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended— 23
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(A) by striking subparagraph (A) of sec-1
tion 1121(b)(1) (20 U.S.C. 6331(b)(1)(A)) and 2
inserting the following: 3
‘‘(A) first reserve $1,000,000 for the Re-4
public of Palau, subject to such terms and con-5
ditions as the Secretary may establish, except 6
that Public Law 95–134, permitting the con-7
solidation of grants, shall not apply; and’’; and 8
(B) by striking paragraph (36) of section 9
8101 (20 U.S.C. 7801(36)) and inserting the 10
following: 11
‘‘(36) O
UTLYING AREA.—The term ‘outlying 12
area’— 13
‘‘(A) means American Samoa, the Com-14
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 15
Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands; 16
and 17
‘‘(B) for the purpose of any discretionary 18
grant program under this Act, includes the Re-19
public of the Marshall Islands, the Federated 20
States of Micronesia, and the Republic of 21
Palau, to the extent that any such grant pro-22
gram continues to be available to State and 23
local governments in the United States.’’. 24
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(5) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO THE COMPACT 1
OF FREE ASSOCIATION AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2003 .— 2
Section 105(f)(1)(B) of the Compact of Free Asso-3
ciation Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 4
1921d(f)(1)(B)) is amended by striking clause (ix). 5
(6) H
EAD START PROGRAMS .— 6
(A) D
EFINITIONS.—Section 637 of the 7
Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832) is amended, 8
in the paragraph defining the term ‘‘State’’, by 9
striking the second sentence and inserting ‘‘The 10
term ‘State’ includes the Federated States of 11
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Is-12
lands, and the Republic of Palau.’’. 13
(B) A
LLOTMENT OF FUNDS .—Section 14
640(a)(2)(B) of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 15
9835(a)(2)(B)) is amended— 16
(i) in clause (iv), by inserting ‘‘the 17
Republic of Palau,’’ before ‘‘and the Virgin 18
Islands’’; and 19
(ii) by striking clause (v) and insert-20
ing the following: 21
‘‘(v) if a base grant has been estab-22
lished through appropriations for the Fed-23
erated States of Micronesia or the Repub-24
lic of the Marshall Islands, to provide an 25
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amount for that jurisdiction (for Head 1
Start agencies (including Early Head Start 2
agencies) in the jurisdiction) that is equal 3
to the amount provided for base grants for 4
such jurisdiction under this subchapter for 5
the prior fiscal year, by allotting to each 6
agency described in this clause an amount 7
equal to that agency’s base grant for the 8
prior fiscal year; and’’. 9
(7) C
OORDINATION REQUIRED .—The Secretary 10
of the Interior, in coordination with the Secretary of 11
Education and the Secretary of Health and Human 12
Services, as applicable, shall, to the maximum extent 13
practicable, coordinate with the 3 United States ap-14
pointees to the Joint Economic Management Com-15
mittee described in section 4(b)(1) and the 2 United 16
States appointees to the Joint Economic Manage-17
ment and Financial Accountability Committee de-18
scribed in section 5(d)(1) to avoid duplication of eco-19
nomic assistance for education provided under sec-20
tion 261(a)(1) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 21
Compact or section 261(a)(1) of the 2023 Amended 22
U.S.-RMI Compact of activities or services provided 23
under— 24
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(A) the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 1
et seq.); 2
(B) subpart 3 of part A of title IV of the 3
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 4
1070b et seq.); or 5
(C) part C of title IV of the Higher Edu-6
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087–51 et 7
seq.). 8
(c) A
UTHORIZATION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 9
P
ROGRAMS.— 10
(1) D
EPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDICAL FA -11
CILITIES.—The Secretary of Defense shall make 12
available, on a space available and reimbursable 13
basis, the medical facilities of the Department of De-14
fense for use by citizens of the Federated States of 15
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 16
and the Republic of Palau, who are properly referred 17
to the facilities by government authorities respon-18
sible for provision of medical services in the Fed-19
erated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the 20
Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the af-21
fected jurisdictions (as defined in section 104(e)(2) 22
of the Compact of Free Association Amendments 23
Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921c(e)(2))). 24
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(2) PARTICIPATION BY SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN 1
THE ARMED SERVICES VOCATIONAL APTITUDE BAT -2
TERY STUDENT TESTING PROGRAM .—It is the sense 3
of Congress that the Department of Defense may ex-4
tend the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Bat-5
tery (ASVAB) Student Testing Program and the 6
ASVAB Career Exploration Program to selected sec-7
ondary schools in the Federated States of Micro-8
nesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 9
Republic of Palau to the extent such programs are 10
available to Department of Defense dependent sec-11
ondary schools established under section 2164 of 12
title 10, United States Code, and located outside the 13
United States. 14
(d) J
UDICIALTRAINING.—In addition to amounts 15
provided under section 261(a)(4) of the 2023 Amended 16
U.S.-FSM Compact and the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 17
Compact and under subsections (a) and (b) of Article 1 18
of the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, for 19
each of fiscal years 2024 through 2043, the Secretary of 20
the Interior shall use the amounts made available to the 21
Secretary of the Interior under section 10(c) to train 22
judges and officials of the judiciary in the Federated 23
States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 24
and the Republic of Palau, in cooperation with the Pacific 25
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Islands Committee of the judicial council of the ninth judi-1
cial circuit of the United States. 2
(e) E
LIGIBILITY FOR THE REPUBLIC OFPALAU.— 3
(1) N
ATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS .—The 4
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall make 5
the services of the National Health Service Corps 6
available to the residents of the Federated States of 7
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 8
and the Republic of Palau to the same extent, and 9
for the same duration, as services are authorized to 10
be provided to persons residing in any other areas 11
within or outside the United States. 12
(2) A
DDITIONAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES .— 13
The Republic of Palau shall be eligible for the pro-14
grams and services made available to the Federated 15
States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Mar-16
shall Islands under section 108(a) of the Compact of 17
Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 18
U.S.C. 1921g(a)). 19
(3) P
ROGRAMS AND SERVICES OF CERTAIN 20
AGENCIES.—In addition to the programs and serv-21
ices set forth in the operative Federal Programs and 22
Services Agreement between the United States and 23
the Republic of Palau, the programs and services of 24
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the following agencies shall be made available to the 1
Republic of Palau: 2
(A) The Legal Services Corporation. 3
(B) The Public Health Service. 4
(C) The Rural Housing Service. 5
(f) C
OMPACTIMPACTFAIRNESS.— 6
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Section 402 of the Personal 7
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 8
Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1612) is amended— 9
(A) in subsection (a)(2), by adding at the 10
end the following: 11
‘‘(N) E
XCEPTION FOR CITIZENS OF FREE -12
LY ASSOCIATED STATES.—With respect to eligi-13
bility for benefits for any specified Federal pro-14
gram, paragraph (1) shall not apply to any in-15
dividual who lawfully resides in the United 16
States in accordance with section 141 of the 17
Compacts of Free Association between the Gov-18
ernment of the United States and the Govern-19
ments of the Federated States of Micronesia, 20
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 21
Republic of Palau.’’; and 22
(B) in subsection (b)(2)(G)— 23
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(i) in the subparagraph heading, by 1
striking ‘‘
MEDICAID EXCEPTION FOR ’’ and 2
inserting ‘‘
EXCEPTION FOR’’; and 3
(ii) by striking ‘‘the designated Fed-4
eral program defined in paragraph (3)(C) 5
(relating to the Medicaid program)’’ and 6
inserting ‘‘any designated Federal pro-7
gram’’. 8
(2) E
XCEPTION TO 5 -YEAR WAIT REQUIRE -9
MENT.—Section 403(b)(3) of the Personal Responsi-10
bility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 11
1996 (8 U.S.C. 1613(b)(3)) is amended by striking 12
‘‘, but only with respect to the designated Federal 13
program defined in section 402(b)(3)(C)’’. 14
(3) D
EFINITION OF QUALIFIED ALIEN .—Section 15
431(b)(8) of the Personal Responsibility and Work 16
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 17
1641(b)(8)) is amended by striking ‘‘, but only with 18
respect to the designated Federal program defined 19
in section 402(b)(3)(C) (relating to the Medicaid 20
program)’’. 21
(g) C
ONSULTATIONWITHINTERNATIONAL FINAN-22
CIALINSTITUTIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury, in 23
coordination with the Secretary of the Interior and the 24
Secretary of State, shall consult with appropriate officials 25
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of the Asian Development Bank and relevant international 1
financial institutions (as defined in section 1701(c) of the 2
International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 3
262r(c))), as appropriate, with respect to overall economic 4
conditions in, and the activities of other providers of as-5
sistance to, the Freely Associated States. 6
(h) C
HIEF OFMISSION.—Section 105(b) of the Com-7
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 8
U.S.C. 1921d(b)) is amended by striking paragraph (5) 9
and inserting the following: 10
‘‘(5) Pursuant to section 207 of the Foreign 11
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3927), all United 12
States Government executive branch employees in 13
the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of 14
the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau fall 15
under the authority of the respective applicable chief 16
of mission, except for employees identified as ex-17
cepted from the authority under Federal law or by 18
Presidential directive.’’. 19
(i) E
STABLISHMENT OF A UNIT FOR THEFREELY 20
A
SSOCIATEDSTATES IN THEBUREAU OFEASTASIAN 21
ANDPACIFICAFFAIRS OF THEDEPARTMENT OF STATE 22
ANDINCREASINGPERSONNELFOCUSED ONOCEANIA.— 23
(1) D
EFINITION OF APPROPRIATE CONGRES -24
SIONAL COMMITTEES.—In this subsection, the term 25
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‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means the 1
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and 2
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 3
Representatives. 4
(2) R
EQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary of State 5
shall— 6
(A) assign additional full-time equivalent 7
personnel to the Office of Australia, New Zea-8
land, and Pacific Island Affairs of the Bureau 9
of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the De-10
partment of State, including to the unit estab-11
lished under subparagraph (B), as the Sec-12
retary of State determines to be appropriate, in 13
accordance with paragraph (4)(A); and 14
(B) establish a unit in the Bureau of East 15
Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Department of 16
State to carry out the functions described in 17
paragraph (3). 18
(3) F
UNCTIONS OF UNIT.—The unit established 19
under paragraph (2)(B) shall be responsible for the 20
following: 21
(A) Managing the bilateral and regional re-22
lations with the Freely Associated States. 23
(B) Supporting the Secretary of State in 24
leading negotiations relating to the Compacts of 25
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Free Association with the Freely Associated 1
States. 2
(C) Coordinating, in consultation with the 3
Department of the Interior, the Department of 4
Defense, and other interagency partners as ap-5
propriate, implementation of the Compacts of 6
Free Association with the Freely Associated 7
States. 8
(4) F
ULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES .—The 9
Secretary of State shall— 10
(A) not later than 5 years after the date 11
of enactment of this joint resolution, assign to 12
the Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pa-13
cific Island Affairs of the Bureau of East Asian 14
and Pacific Affairs, including to the unit estab-15
lished under paragraph (2)(B), not less than 4 16
additional full-time equivalent staff, who shall 17
not be dual-hatted, including by considering— 18
(i) the use of existing flexible hiring 19
authorities, including Domestic Employees 20
Teleworking Overseas (DETOs); and 21
(ii) the realignment of existing per-22
sonnel, including from the United States 23
Mission in Australia, as appropriate; 24
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(B) reduce the number of vacant foreign 1
service positions in the Pacific Island region by 2
establishing an incentive program within the 3
Foreign Service for overseas positions related to 4
the Pacific Island region; and 5
(C) report to the appropriate congressional 6
committees on progress toward objectives out-7
lined in this subsection beginning 1 year from 8
the date of enactment of this joint resolution 9
and annually thereafter for 5 years. 10
(j) T
ECHNICALASSISTANCE.—Section 105 of the 11
Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 12
(48 U.S.C. 1921d) is amended by striking subsection (j) 13
and inserting the following: 14
‘‘(j) T
ECHNICALASSISTANCE.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Technical assistance may 16
be provided pursuant to section 224 of the 2023 17
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, section 224 of the 18
2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or section 222 19
of the U.S.-Palau Compact (as those terms are de-20
fined in section 2 of the Compact of Free Associa-21
tion Amendments Act of 2023) by Federal agencies 22
and institutions of the Government of the United 23
States to the extent the assistance shall be provided 24
to States, territories, or units of local government. 25
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‘‘(2) HISTORIC PRESERVATION.— 1
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Any technical assist-2
ance authorized under paragraph (1) that is 3
provided by the Forest Service, the Natural Re-4
sources Conservation Service, the United States 5
Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine 6
Fisheries Service, the United States Coast 7
Guard, the Advisory Council on Historic Pres-8
ervation, the Department of the Interior, or any 9
other Federal agency providing assistance 10
under division A of subtitle III of title 54, 11
United States Code, may be provided on a non-12
reimbursable basis. 13
‘‘(B) G
RANTS.—During the period in 14
which the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact 15
(as so defined) and the 2023 Amended U.S.- 16
RMI Compact (as so defined) are in force, the 17
grant programs under division A of subtitle III 18
of title 54, United States Code, shall continue 19
to apply to the Federated States of Micronesia 20
and the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the 21
same manner and to the same extent as those 22
programs applied prior to the approval of the 23
U.S.-FSM Compact and U.S.-RMI Compact. 24
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‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL FUNDS.—Any funds provided 1
pursuant to this subsection, subsections (c), (g), (h), 2
(i), (k), (l), and (m), section 102(a), and subsections 3
(a), (b), (f), (g), (h), and (j) of section 103 shall be 4
in addition to, and not charged against, any 5
amounts to be paid to the Federated States of Mi-6
cronesia or the Republic of the Marshall Islands pur-7
suant to— 8
‘‘(A) the U.S.-FSM Compact; 9
‘‘(B) the U.S.-RMI Compact; or 10
‘‘(C) any related subsidiary agreement.’’. 11
(k) C
ONTINUINGTRUSTTERRITORYAUTHORIZA-12
TION.—The authorization provided by the Act of June 30, 13
1954 (68 Stat. 330, chapter 423), shall remain available 14
after the effective date of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 15
Compact and the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact with 16
respect to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Re-17
public of the Marshall Islands for transition purposes, in-18
cluding— 19
(1) completion of projects and fulfillment of 20
commitments or obligations; 21
(2) termination of the Trust Territory Govern-22
ment and termination of the High Court; 23
(3) health and education as a result of excep-24
tional circumstances; 25
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(4) ex gratia contributions for the populations 1
of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap, and Utrik; and 2
(5) technical assistance and training in finan-3
cial management, program administration, and 4
maintenance of infrastructure. 5
(l) T
ECHNICALAMENDMENTS.— 6
(1) P
UBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT DEFINI -7
TION.—Section 2(f) of the Public Health Service Act 8
(42 U.S.C. 201(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘and the 9
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands’’ and inserting 10
‘‘the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of 11
the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau’’. 12
(2) C
OMPACT IMPACT AMENDMENTS .—Section 13
104(e) of the Compact of Free Association Amend-14
ments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921c(e)) is amend-15
ed— 16
(A) in paragraph (4)— 17
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 18
‘‘beginning in fiscal year 2003’’ and insert-19
ing ‘‘during the period of fiscal years 2003 20
through 2023’’; and 21
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 22
‘‘after fiscal year 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘for 23
the period of fiscal years 2004 through 24
2023’’; 25
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(B) by striking paragraph (5); and 1
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (6) 2
through (10) as paragraphs (5) through (9), re-3
spectively. 4
SEC. 9. ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES. 5
(a) A
GENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, ANDINSTRUMENTAL-6
ITIES.— 7
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Appropriations to carry out 8
the obligations, services, and programs described in 9
paragraph (2) shall be made directly to the Federal 10
agencies, departments, and instrumentalities car-11
rying out the obligations, services and programs. 12
(2) O
BLIGATIONS, SERVICES, AND PROGRAMS 13
DESCRIBED.—The obligations, services, and pro-14
grams referred to in paragraphs (1) and (3) are the 15
obligations, services, and programs under— 16
(A) sections 131 and 132, paragraphs (1) 17
and (3) through (6) of section 221(a), and sec-18
tion 221(b) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM 19
Compact; 20
(B) sections 131 and 132, paragraphs (1) 21
and (3) through (6) of section 221(a), and sec-22
tion 221(b) of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 23
Compact; 24
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(C) sections 131 and 132 and paragraphs 1
(1), (3), and (4) of section 221(a) of the U.S.- 2
Palau Compact; 3
(D) Article 6 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau Com-4
pact Review Agreement; and 5
(E) section 8. 6
(3) A
UTHORITY.—The heads of the Federal 7
agencies, departments, and instrumentalities to 8
which appropriations are made available under para-9
graph (1) as well as the Federal Deposit Insurance 10
Corporation shall— 11
(A) have the authority to carry out any ac-12
tivities that are necessary to fulfill the obliga-13
tions, services, and programs described in para-14
graph (2); and 15
(B) use available funds to carry out the ac-16
tivities under subparagraph (A). 17
(b) A
DDITIONALASSISTANCE.—Any assistance pro-18
vided pursuant to section 105(j) of the Compact of Free 19
Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 20
1921d(j)) (as amended by section 8(j)) and sections 4(a), 21
5(a), 6(b), and 8 shall be in addition to and not charged 22
against any amounts to be paid to the Federated States 23
of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and 24
the Republic of Palau pursuant to— 25
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(1) the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 1
(2) the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; 2
(3) the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review 3
Agreement; or 4
(4) any related subsidiary agreement. 5
(c) R
EMAININGBALANCES.—Notwithstanding any 6
other provision of law, including section 109 of the Com-7
pact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 8
U.S.C. 1921h)— 9
(1) remaining balances appropriated to carry 10
out sections 211, 212(b), 215, and 217 of the 2023 11
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, shall be programmed 12
pursuant to Article IX of the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal 13
Procedures Agreement; and 14
(2) remaining balances appropriated to carry 15
out sections 211, 213(b), 216, and 218 of the 2023 16
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, shall be programmed 17
pursuant to Article XI of the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal 18
Procedures Agreement. 19
(d) G
RANTS.—Notwithstanding any other provision 20
of law— 21
(1) contributions under the 2023 Amended 22
U.S.-FSM Compact, the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact 23
Review Agreement, and the 2023 Amended U.S.- 24
RMI Compact may be provided as grants for pur-25
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poses of implementation of the 2023 Amended U.S.- 1
FSM Compact, the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Re-2
view Agreement, and the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI 3
Compact under the laws of the United States; and 4
(2) funds appropriated pursuant to section 10 5
may be deposited in interest-bearing accounts and 6
any interest earned may be retained in and form 7
part of those accounts for use consistent with the 8
purpose of the deposit. 9
(e) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Except as specifically 10
provided, nothing in this joint resolution or the amend-11
ments made by this joint resolution amends the following: 12
(1) Title I of the Compact of Free Association 13
Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.). 14
(2) Title I of Public Law 99–658 (48 U.S.C. 15
1931 et seq.). 16
(3) Title I of the Compact of Free Association 17
Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.). 18
(4) Section 1259C of the National Defense Au-19
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (48 U.S.C. 20
1931 note; Public Law 115–91). 21
(5) The Department of the Interior, Environ-22
ment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 23
2018 (Public Law 115–141; 132 Stat. 635). 24
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(f) CLARIFICATIONRELATING TO APPROPRIATED 1
F
UNDS.—Notwithstanding section 109 of the Compacts of 2
Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 3
1921h)— 4
(1) funds appropriated by that section and de-5
posited into the RMI Compact Trust Fund shall be 6
governed by the 2023 U.S.-RMI Trust Fund Agree-7
ment on entry into force of the 2023 U.S.-RMI 8
Trust Fund Agreement; 9
(2) funds appropriated by that section and de-10
posited into the FSM Compact Trust Fund shall be 11
governed by the 2023 U.S.-FSM Trust Fund Agree-12
ment on entry into force of the 2023 U.S.-FSM 13
Trust Fund Agreement; 14
(3) funds appropriated by that section and 15
made available for fiscal year 2024 or any fiscal year 16
thereafter as grants to carry out the purposes of sec-17
tion 211(b) of the 2003 U.S.-RMI Amended Com-18
pact shall be subject to the provisions of the 2023 19
U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures Agreement on entry 20
into force of the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 21
Agreement; 22
(4) funds appropriated by that section and 23
made available for fiscal year 2024 or any fiscal year 24
thereafter as grants to carry out the purposes of sec-25
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tion 221 of the 2003 U.S.-RMI Amended Compact 1
shall be subject to the provisions of the 2023 U.S.- 2
RMI Fiscal Procedures Agreement on entry into 3
force of the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures 4
Agreement, except as modified in the Federal Pro-5
grams and Services Agreement in force between the 6
United States and the Republic of the Marshall Is-7
lands; and 8
(5) funds appropriated by that section and 9
made available for fiscal year 2024 or any fiscal year 10
thereafter as grants to carry out the purposes of sec-11
tion 221 of the 2003 U.S.-FSM Amended Compact 12
shall be subject to the provisions of the 2023 U.S.- 13
FSM Fiscal Procedures Agreement on entry into 14
force of the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Procedures 15
Agreement, except as modified in the 2023 U.S.- 16
FSM Federal Programs and Services Agreement. 17
SEC. 10. COMPACT APPROPRIATIONS. 18
(a) F
UNDING FORACTIVITIES OF THESECRETARY 19
OF THEINTERIOR.—For the period of fiscal years 2024 20
through 2043, there are appropriated to the Compact of 21
Free Association account of the Department of the Inte-22
rior, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appro-23
priated, to remain available until expended, the amounts 24
described in and to carry out the purposes of— 25
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(1) sections 261, 265, and 266 of the 2023 1
Amended U.S.-FSM Compact; 2
(2) sections 261, 265, and 266 of the 2023 3
Amended U.S.-RMI Compact; and 4
(3) Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 5
Compact Review Agreement. 6
(b) F
UNDING FOR ACTIVITIES OF THE UNITED 7
S
TATESPOSTALSERVICE.— 8
(1) A
PPROPRIATION.—There is appropriated to 9
the United States Postal Service, out of any funds 10
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for each 11
of fiscal years 2024 through 2043, $31,700,000, to 12
remain available until expended, to carry out the 13
costs of the following provisions that are not other-14
wise funded: 15
(A) Section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amend-16
ed U.S.-FSM Compact. 17
(B) Section 221(a)(2) of the 2023 Amend-18
ed U.S.-RMI Compact. 19
(C) Section 221(a)(2) of the U.S.-Palau 20
Compact. 21
(D) Article 6(a) of the 2023 U.S.-Palau 22
Compact Review Agreement. 23
(2) D
EPOSIT.— 24
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The amounts appro-1
priated to the United States Postal Service 2
under paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the 3
Postal Service Fund established under section 4
2003 of title 39, United States Code, to carry 5
out the provisions described in that paragraph. 6
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—Any amounts depos-7
ited into the Postal Service Fund under sub-8
paragraph (A) shall be the fiduciary, fiscal, and 9
audit responsibility of the Postal Service. 10
(c) F
UNDING FOR JUDICIALTRAINING.—There is 11
appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out 12
section 8(d) out of any funds in the Treasury not other-13
wise appropriated, $550,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 14
through 2043, to remain available until expended. 15
Æ 
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