Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 117.djvu/2764

 PUBLIC LAW 108–188—DEC. 17, 2003

117 STAT. 2745

(4) Federal agencies providing programs and services to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands shall coordinate with the Secretaries of the Interior and State regarding provision of such programs and services. The Secretaries of the Interior and State shall consult with appropriate officials of the Asian Development Bank and with the Secretary of the Treasury regarding overall economic conditions in the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands and regarding the activities of other donors of assistance to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. (5) United States Government employees in either the Federated States of Micronesia or the Republic of the Marshall Islands are subject to the authority of the United States Chief of Mission, including as elaborated in section 207 of the Foreign Service Act and the President’s Letter of Instruction to the United States Chief of Mission and any order or directive of the President in effect from time to time. (6) INTERAGENCY GROUP ON FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES’ AFFAIRS.— (A) IN GENERAL.—The President is hereby authorized to appoint an Interagency Group on Freely Associated States’ Affairs to provide policy guidance and recommendations on implementation of the U.S.-FSM Compact and the U.S.-RMI Compact to Federal departments and agencies. (B) SECRETARIES.—It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior shall be represented on the Interagency Group. (7) UNITED STATES APPOINTEES TO JOINT COMMITTEES.— (A) JOINT ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.— (i) IN GENERAL.—The three United States appointees (United States chair plus two members) to the Joint Economic Management Committee provided for in section 213 of the U.S.-FSM Compact and Article III of the U.S.-FSM Fiscal Procedures Agreement referred to in section 462(b)(4) of the U.S.FSM Compact shall be United States Government officers or employees. (ii) DEPARTMENTS.—It is the sense of Congress that 2 of the 3 appointees should be designated from the Department of State and the Department of the Interior, and that U.S. officials of the Asian Development Bank shall be consulted in order to properly coordinate U.S. and Asian Development Bank financial, program, and technical assistance. (iii) ADDITIONAL SCOPE.—Section 213 of the U.S.FSM Compact shall be construed to read as though the phrase, ‘‘the implementation of economic policy reforms to encourage investment and to achieve selfsufficient tax rates,’’ were inserted after ‘‘with particular focus on those parts of the plan dealing with the sectors identified in subsection (a) of section 211’’. (B) JOINT ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE.— (i) IN GENERAL.—The three United States appointees (United States chair plus two members)

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