Executive Orders & Public Laws

The following executive orders and public laws provide authorities for and guide the work of the Office of Insular Affairs and inform the work of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out responsibilities for the Insular Areas. The Insular Areas are comprised of the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and the freely associated states which are the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.

Executive Orders, Secretarial Orders, and Departmental Manual

OMB Controller Alert 23-04, Waiving Matching Fund Requirements for Insular Areas, February 6, 2023
Renaming and Restructuring the Office of the Assistant Secretary, Secretarial Order #3361, February 1, 2018
White House Co-Chair of IGIA, Executive Order 13537, April 14, 2010
Establishment of Assistant Secretary – Insular Areas, July 2, 2009, Secretarial Order #3287
Establishment of IGIA – Executive Order 13299, May 8, 2003
Coral Reef Protection – Executive Order 13089, June 11, 1998
Territorial and International Affairs – Departmental Manual 575, April 27, 1989
Northern Mariana Islands – Executive Order 12572, November 3, 1986
Executive Order 12569--Management of the Compact of Free Association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, 1986
Secretarial Order #2918 – Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1968
Executive Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior, 1962 (Superseded by Executive Order 12569)
U.S. Virgin Islands – Revised Organic Act of 1954
American Samoa – Executive Order 10264, July 1, 1951
- Secretarial Order #3009 – Elected Governor and Lt. Governor of American Samoa
Guam - Executive Order 10137, August 1, 1950
U.S. Virgin Islands – Executive Order 7968, December 5, 1938 – Signed by President Harry S. Truman, established the Virgin Islands Corporation to promote economic development and improve living conditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Executive Order 6726 – Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the U.S. Department of the Interior on May 29, 1934. This act transferred responsibilities for territories from the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Department of War to Interior.
U.S. Virgin Islands – Executive Order 5566, February 27, 1931
Department of the Interior the Division of Territories and Island Possessions.
Records of the Office of the Territories – National Archive

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance # (CFDA) for OIA

The Office of Insular Affairs' CFDA number for federal grant assistance, when available at Grants.gov is 15.875.

Public Laws - Compacts of Free Association

2024 Compact Amendments Act – FSM, RMI, Palau

Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2024, Public Law 118-42, Signed March 9, 2024.

2024 Compact Documents – Federated States of Micronesia

Agreement to Amend the Compact, as amended (Micronesia 24-318), signed May 23, 2023, EIF March 18, 2024
Federal Programs and Services Agreement (#1), signed September 28, 2023, EIF March 18, 2024
Compact Trust Fund Agreement (#2), signed May 23, 2023, EIF March 18, 2024
Procedures for Implementation of Economic Assistance under Compact (#3), March 18, 2024

2024 Compact Documents – Republic of the Marshall Islands (upload pending)

Palau Compact Review

2003 Amended Compact of Free Association – FSM and RMI

For 1986 and 1994 Compact of Free Association agreements with the FSM, RMI, and Palau and other historical documents, refer to Tab labelled Public Laws – Historical.

Public Laws – Historical

A Historical Record of Interior/OIA with the U.S. Territories and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to 1994

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