Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 19 — Pacific Policy Reports
§ 2003. Conference
Statutory text
Meeting
Prior to submitting the reports required under section 2002(b) of this title, the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall convene a conference to obtain the views of the noncontiguous Pacific areas on the matters required to be addressed in such reports.
Participants
Representatives of each of the noncontiguous Pacific areas; and the heads of all executive departments and agencies, and other public and private organizations concerned with the noncontiguous Pacific areas as requested by the Secretary of the Interior shall be entitled to be participants in the conference.
Written comments
The Secretary of the Interior shall afford participants in the conference an opportunity to submit written comments for inclusion in the reports required under section 2002 of this title.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Compact of Free Association Act of 1985
Pub. L. 99–239 title III § 303 · 99 Stat. 1770
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 2003
(Pub. L. 99–239, title III, § 303, Jan. 14, 1986, 99 Stat. 1837.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 99–239, title III, § 303, Jan. 14, 1986, 99 Stat. 1837.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 303. CONFERENCE. (a) Meeting.— Prior to submitting the reports required under section 302(b), the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall convene a conference to obtain the views of the noncontiguous Pacific areas on the matters required to be addressed in such reports. (b) Participants.— Representatives of each of the noncontiguous Pacific areas; and the heads of all executive departments and agencies, and other public and private organizations concerned with the noncontiguous Pacific areas as requested by the Secretary of the Interior shall be entitled to be participants in the conference. (c) Written Comments.— The Secretary of the Interior shall afford participants in the conference an opportunity to submit written comments for inclusion in the reports required under section 302.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly set out as a note under section 1681 of this title.