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

U.S. Virgin Islands – Executive Order 5566, February 27, 1931
Guam - Executive Order 10137, August 1, 1950
American Samoa – Executive Order 10264, July 1, 1951
- Secretarial Order #3009 – Elected Governor and Lt. Governor of American Samoa
U.S. Virgin Islands – Revised Organic Act of 1954
Executive Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior, 1962 (Superceded by Executive Order 12569)
Secretarial Order #2918 – Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1968
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
Northern Mariana Islands – Executive Order 12572, November 3, 1986
Territorial and International Affairs – Departmental Manual 575, April 27, 1989
Coral Reef Protection – Executive Order 13089, June 11, 1998
Establishment of IGIA – Executive Order 13299, May 8, 2003
Establishment of Assistant Secretary – Insular Areas, July 2, 2009, Secretarial Order #3287
White House Co-Chair of IGIA, Executive Order 13537, April 14, 2010
Renaming and Restructuring the Office of the Assistant Secretary, Secretarial Order #3361, February 1, 2018
OMB Controller Alert 23-04, Waiving Matching Fund Requirements for Insular Areas, February 6, 2023

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)

Office of Insular Affairs' CFDA number is 15.875

Public Laws

Public Laws Guiding Interior’s Responsibilities for the Territories and Freely Associated States

Treaty of 1898 Between Spain and the U.S. Regarding Guam
1917 Proclamation on Cession of the Danish West Indies - Treaty No.629, 39 Stat. 1706"
Public Law 90-496, sec.13, August 23, 1968 – USVI and Federal Government relations under Interior
Public Law 90-497, sec.12(a), September 11, 1968 Guam and Federal Government relations under Interior
Methods of Assistance to Insular Areas – Public Law 96-597, sec.601(a), December 24, 1980
Executive Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior (superceded by Executive Order 12569)
Termination of the U.S. Trusteeship – Proclamation 5564, November 3, 1986
Presidential Proclamation No. 6726, 59 Federal Register 49777 (Sept. 27, 1994) - Entry into Force of Palau Compact, October 1, 1994
Proclamation 6763 December 23, 1994 – Duty Free Treatment to Products of Palau

Compacts of Free Association

Executive Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior (superceded by Executive Order 12569)
Implementation of Section 177 of the Compact of Free Association Between the U.S. and the RMI – Signed June 25, 1983
Public Law 99-239, January 14, 1986 Compact of Free Association – FSM & RMI
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
Public Law 99-658, November 14, 1986 (EIF: October 1, 1994) Palau Compact of Free Association
- Subsidiary Agreements Between the U.S. and Palau
Public Law 108-188, signed April 30, 2003, Amended Compact of Free Association – RMI
Public Law 108-188, signed May 14, 2003, Amended Compact of Free Association – FSM
2010 Palau Compact Section 432 Review Agreement w/appendices, September 3, 2010
2010 Palau Compact Section 432 Review Agreement, Signed September 19, 2018

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