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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 19 — Pacific Policy Reports

§ 2003. Conference

Statutory text

(a)

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.

(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 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.

  1. 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.

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–239, title III, § 303, , 99 Stat. 1837.)

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