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CBL 21-142
TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA THIRD REGULAR SESSION, 2020 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO. 21-136, C.D.1, C.D.2, C.D.3, C.D.4 P.C. NO. 21-214 PUBLIC LAW NO. 21-77
AN ACT
To amend sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 and 12 of Public Law No. 21-42, as amended by Public Law No. 21-55, to appropriate $7,417,994 of additional funds from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, to provide supplemental funding for the operations of the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, Office of Public Auditor, Grants, Subsidies and Contributions, and Capital and Human Resources Development, and to change the allottee of certain funds; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA:
Section 1. Section 1 of Public Law No. 21-42, as amended by 1
Public Law No. 21-55, is hereby further amended to read as 2
follows: 3
“Purpose. The purpose of this act is to appropriate the 4
sum of $71,808,352 from the General Fund of the 5
Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year 6
ending September 30, 2020, for the purpose of funding 7
the operations of all branches of the National 8
Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, its 9
agencies, various programs, grants, subsidies and 10
contributions and Capital and Human Resources 11
Development. The National Government’s share of the 12
Amended Compact funds has been reduced to zero; EXCEPT 13
THAT; the National Government will retain the Compact 14
Sector Grant amount for COM-FSM and 10 percent of the 15
Supplemental Education Grant funds as is reflected in 16
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the budget for the Department of Education. The sum 1
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows:” 2
Section 2. Section 2 of Public Law No. 21-42, as amended by 3
Public Law No. 21-55, is hereby further amended to read as 4
follows: 5
“Section 2. Operating Expenses of the Executive Branch. 6
The sum of $24,115,622, or so much thereof as may be 7
necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund 8
of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 9
year ending September 30, 2020, for the purpose of 10
funding the operations of the Executive Branch of the 11
National Government during the fiscal year 2020. The sum 12
appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as 13
follows: 14
(1) Office of the President. 15
The sum of $1,794,593, or so much thereof as may be 16
necessary, for the operations of the Office of the 17
President during the fiscal year 2020. The sum 18
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 19
Personnel ............................... $ 656,593 20
Travel ................................... 405,000 21
Contractual Services ...................... 600,000 22
OCE ............................... ....... 130,000 23
Fixed Assets ............................... 3,000 24
(2) Department of Foreign Affairs. 25
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The sum of $5,782,388, or so much thereof as may be 1
necessary, for the operations of the Department of 2
Foreign Affairs during the fiscal year 2020. The sum 3
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 4
Personnel, PROVIDED THAT, of this amount, $166,000 shall 5
be used to fund the Foreign Service 6
Premium.................. ................ $ 1,857,194 7
Travel ................................... 407,728 8
Contractual Services.......... ............ 2,995,047 9
OCE ...................................... 434,163 10
Fixed Assets .............................. 88,256 11
(3) Department of Finance and Administration. 12
The sum of $3,075,183, or so much thereof as may be 13
necessary, for the operations of the Department of 14
Finance and Administration during the fiscal year 2020. 15
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 16
follows: 17
Personnel ............................... $ 2,129,683 18
Travel ...................... ............. 297,000 19
Contractual Services................... ... 227,500 20
OCE .......................... ............ 276,500 21
Fixed Assets .......................... .. 144,500 22
(4) Department of Resources and Development. 23
The sum of $1,548,527, or so much thereof as may be 24
necessary, for the operations of the Department of 25
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Resources and Development during the fiscal year 2020. 1
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 2
follows: 3
Personnel ............................. .. $ 907,314 4
Travel ................................ ... 291,823 5
Contractual Services................... .. 59,850 6
OCE .................................... .. 187,540 7
Fixed Assets ............................. 102,000 8
(5) Department of Transportation, Communications and 9
Infrastructure. 10
The sum of $2,738,152, or so much thereof as may be 11
necessary, for the operations of the Department of 12
Transportation, Communication & Infrastructure during 13
the fiscal year 2020. The sum appropriated herein shall 14
be apportioned as follows: 15
Personnel ............................. . .$ 648,346 16
Travel ........................ ........... 251,692 17
Contractual Services........... ........... 1,692,214 18
OCE ..................................... 96,600 19
Fixed Assets ............................ 49,300 20
(6) Department of Health and Social Affairs. 21
The sum of $903,563, or so much thereof as may be 22
necessary, for the operations of the Department of 23
Health and Social Affairs during the fiscal year 2020. 24
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 25
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follows: 1
Personnel ............................ ... $ 514,230 2
Travel ............................... ... 154,215 3
Contractual Services.................. ... 118,617 4
OCE ...................... ................ 113,501 5
Fixed Assets ...................... ....... 3,000 6
(7) Department of Education. 7
The sum of $851,421, or so much thereof as may be 8
necessary, for the operations of the Department of 9
Education during the fiscal year 2020. Of the total 10
amount of funds appropriated herein, $366,598, shall be 11
deemed to come from funds available under the 12
Supplemental Education Grant. The sum appropriated 13
herein shall be apportioned as follows: 14
Personnel .............................. . $ 437,498 15
Travel .................................. 200,546 16
Contractual Services..................... 159,226 17
OCE ..................................... 49,651 18
Fixed Assets ............................ . 4,500 19
(8) Department of Justice. 20
The sum of $4,899,815, or so much thereof as may be 21
necessary, for the operations of the Department of 22
Justice during the fiscal year 2020. The sum 23
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 24
Personnel ............................. .. $ 3,405,293 25
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Travel .................................. $ 374,802 1
Contractual Services..................... 634,977 2
OCE ..................................... 377,443 3
Fixed Assets ............................ . 107,300 4
(9) Department of Climate Change, Environment and 5
Emergency Management. 6
The sum of $842,579, or so much thereof as may be 7
necessary, for the operations of the Office of 8
Environment and Emergency Management during the fiscal 9
year 2020. The sum appropriated herein shall be 10
apportioned as follows: 11
Personnel ............................. .. $ 545,058 12
Travel ................................. . 164,301 13
Contractual Services.................... . 50,000 14
OCE .................................... . 47,120 15
Fixed Assets .................... ......... 36,100 16
(10) Office of the Public Defender. 17
The sum of $1,087,151, or so much thereof as may be 18
necessary, for the operations of the Office of the 19
Public Defender during the fiscal year 2020. The sum 20
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 21
Personnel .............................. . $ 744,081 22
Travel .................................. 140,120 23
Contractual Services..................... . 101,050 24
OCE ..................................... 86,900 25
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Fixed Assets ............................ $ 15,000 1
(11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic 2
Preservation. 3
The sum of $234,306, or so much thereof as may be 4
necessary, for the operations of the Office of National 5
Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation during the 6
fiscal year 2020. The sum appropriated herein shall be 7
apportioned as follows: 8
Personnel ..................... ......... .$ 138,018 9
Travel ..................................... 35,574 10
Contractual Services........................ 15,425 11
OCE ........................................ 20,289 12
Fixed Assets................................ 25,000 13
(12) Office of Veteran’s Affairs. 14
The sum of $189,465, or so much thereof as may be 15
necessary, for the operations of the Office of Veteran’s 16
Affairs during the fiscal year 2020. The sum 17
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 18
Personnel .................................$ 79,240 19
Travel ..................................... 42,225 20
Contractual Services........................ 50,000 21
OCE ........................................ 18,000 22
Fixed Assets................................ -0- 23
(13) Office of Personnel. 24
The sum of $168,479, or so much thereof as may be 25
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necessary, for the operations of the Office of Veteran’s 1
Affairs during the fiscal year 2020. The sum 2
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 3
Personnel .................................$ 147,479 4
Travel ................................... 10,000 5
Contractual Services........................ -0- 6
OCE ........................................ 11,000 7
Fixed Assets................................ -0-“ 8
Section 3. Section 3 of Public Law No. 21-42 is hereby 9
amended to read as follows: 10
“Section 3. Operating Expenses of the Legislative 11
Branch. The sum of $7,675,860, or so much thereof as 12
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the 13
General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for 14
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, for the 15
operations of the Legislative Branch of the National 16
Government during fiscal year 2020. The sum appropriated 17
by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 18
(1)Speaker and Members. 19
The sum of $3,968,150, or so much thereof as may be 20
necessary, for the operations of the Office of the 21
Speaker and Members of the Congress of the Federated 22
States of Micronesia during fiscal year 2020. The sum 23
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 24
Personnel ..................................$ 438,150 25
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Travel ..................................... $ 700,000 1
Contractual Services, of which up to $350,000 may be 2
used to assist Members and staff 3
with current and prior year medical costs, 4
and up to $50,000 may be used to pay for 5
outstanding prior year 6
obligations. .................. .......... $ 2,830,000 7
OCE ........................................ -0- 8
Fixed Assets ............................... -0- 9
(2) Staff Offices. 10
The sum of $2,517,710, or so much thereof as may be 11
necessary, for the operations of the Congress staff 12
offices during fiscal year 2020, of which up to 10,000 13
may be used to pay prior obligations. The sum 14
appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 15
Personnel .................................$ 1,211,710 16
Travel............................ ....... 275,000 17
Contractual Services.............. ....... 562,000 18
OCE.............................. ........ 309,000 19
Fixed Assets..................... ........ 160,000 20
(3) Congress Delegation Offices. 21
The sum of $1,190,000, or so much thereof as may be 22
necessary, for the operations of the Congress delegation 23
offices during the fiscal year 2020. Of the amounts 24
appropriated for contractual services within each 25
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Delegation Office, up to a maximum of $75,000 per 1
Member, at the Delegation Offices’ discretion, may be 2
used for Representation including prior year 3
obligations. The sum appropriated is apportioned as 4
follows: 5
(a) Kosrae Delegation Office 6
Travel ......................... $ -0- 7
Contractual Services ............. 150,000 8
OCE .............................. 20,000 9
Fixed Assets ..................... -0- 10
TOTAL ............................ 170,000 11
(b) Pohnpei Delegation Office 12
Travel .......................... 10,000 13
Contractual Services ............. 300,000 14
OCE .............................. 30,000 15
Fixed Assets ..................... -0- 16
TOTAL ............................ 340,000 17
(c) Chuuk Delegation Office 18
Travel .......................... -0- 19
Contractual Services ............. 460,000 20
OCE .............................. 40,000 21
Fixed Assets ..................... 10,000 22
TOTAL ............................ 510,000 23
(d) Yap Delegation Office 24
Travel .......................... 10,000 25
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Contractual Services ............ $ 145,000 1
OCE .............................. 10,000 2
Fixed Assets ..................... 5,000 3
TOTAL ............................ 170,000” 4
Section 4. Section 5 of Public Law No. 21-42 is hereby 5
amended to read as follows: 6
“Section 5. Operating Expenses of the National Auditor. 7
The sum of $940,420, or so much thereof as may be 8
necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund 9
of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 10
year ending September 30, 2020, for the operations of 11
the National Office of the Public Auditor. The sum 12
appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as 13
follows: 14
Personnel ........................ ....... $ 625,920 15
Travel ..................................... 139,000 16
Contractual Services........................ 99,000 17
OCE ........................................ 66,500 18
Fixed Assets................................ 10,000” 19
Section 5. Section 8 of Public Law No. 21-42, as amended by 20
Public Law No. 21-55, is hereby further amended to read as 21
follows: 22
“Section 8. Grants, Subsidies and Contributions. The 23
sum of $16,793,730, or so much thereof as may be 24
necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund 25
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of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 1
year ending September 30, 2020, for the following 2
grants, subsidies and contributions during fiscal year 3
2020. The sum appropriated by this section shall be 4
apportioned as follows: 5
(1) Office of the President. 6
(a) Asia Pacific Inst. Broadcasting 7
Development (AIBD) ....................... $ 4,500 8
(b) Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union 9
(ABU) ..................................... 800 10
(c) Pacific Island News Association 350 11
(d) Asia Pacific Investment ........ 250 12
(e) Former Presidents’ Allowance ... 50,000 13
(f) Joint Committee on Compact Review and 14
Planning (JCRP); $160,000 to be used for Jim 15
Stovall’s legal fees ...................... 960,000 16
(2) Department of Foreign Affairs. 17
(a) Pacific Island Forum Secretariat. 57,000 18
(b) Secretariat of the Pacific Community 65,000 19
(c) ESCAP .......................... 5,000 20
(d) UN Membership Fee .............. 50,000 21
(e) East West Center ................ 5,000 22
(f) ACP Cotonou Membership Fees 17,000 23
(g) SPC Office Space ................ 29,670 24
(h) SIS Program ..................... 10,000 25
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(i) IOM Membership Fee ............ $ 600 1
(j) SPC Host Grant ................. 20,000 2
(k) Differential for foreign currency 3
adjustment ............................... 1,290 4
(l) FSM Day ........................ 20,000 5
(m) 2020 Games in Japan – Representation and 6
Participation (FSM Embassy/Tokyo) ......... 30,000 7
(o) Prior year obligation – PIF .... 1,611 8
(p) Guam consulate citizen’s outreach 25,000 9
(3) Department of Finance and Administration. 10
(a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee ......... 14,024 11
(b) Maintenance Fee for Financial 12
Management System (FMIS) .................. 55,000 13
(c) PITTA – CTA .................... 9,000 14
(d) ADB, IMF & Budget Finance Policy 15
Consultations ............................. 25,000 16
(e) Macro Economist Advisor ........ 200,000 17
(f) Global Forum Membership Fee .... 26,000 18
(g) PFTAC Membership Fee ........... 20,000 19
(h) CTA Conference ................. 35,000 20
(i) FSM national government taxes prior 21
year debts to social security (4th quarter 22
2018 to 1st quarter 2019) .................. 44,000 23
(j) Prior years obligations for Chuuk 24
Finance Office ........................... 7,560 25
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(k) Finance prior years obligations 1
for acting capacity ...................... $ 1,150 2
(l) FSM Trust Fund Board ........... 50,000 3
(4) Department of Resources and Development. 4
(a) Pacific Island Development Program 5
(PIDP) ................................... 15,000 6
(b) Pacific Asian Travel Association 7
(PATA) .................................... 6,000 8
(c) United Nations Development Program 30,000 9
(d) Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) 4,800 10
(e) Western Forestry Leadership Coalition 530 11
(f) Matching to SPC Projects ....... 60,000 12
(g) Micronesian Challenge .......... 10,000 13
(h) Micronesian Cruise Association . 2,500 14
(i) South Pacific Tourism Organization 8,000 15
(j) IRENA .......................... 250 16
(k) Micronesia Trade Committee ..... 30,000 17
(l) Convention on Biological 18
Diversity (CBD) ........................... 1,000 19
(m) IFAD ........................... 500 20
(n) UNIDO Membership ............... 1,000 21
(o) Micronesia Island Forum 22
Membership Fee ............................ 15,000 23
(p) Hosting of the Micronesian 24
Islands Forum ............................. 120,000 25
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(q) Pacific Festival .............. $ 100,000 1
(5) Department of Health and Social Affairs. 2
(a) UNFPA .......................... 3,000 3
(b) WHO ............................ 4,650 4
(c) PIHOA .......................... 20,000 5
(d) Association of Territorial Health 4,000 6
(e) Nursing and Medical Licensing 60,000 7
(f) FSM Red Cross ................. 70,000 8
(g) UNICEF (Vaccine & TB Drugs) ... 50,000 9
(h) UN/FSM Women (CEDAW) .......... 1,000 10
(i) Drug Quality Testing Project .. 3,000 11
(j) National Therapeutics & 12
Standards Committee ...................... 37,000 13
(k) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) 10,000 14
(l) FSM Youth Summit .............. 50,000 15
(m) TB & Leprosy – Free Chuuk Project 100,000 16
(n) Convention on the Rights of the 17
Child (CRC) ............................... 40,270 18
(o) Response to measles outbreak and 19
novel coronavirus ......................... 200,000 20
(6) Department of Education. 21
(a) Aid for Non-Public Schools. .... 800,000 22
(b) Aid to CMI Students ............ 40,000 23
(c) Aid to PCC Students ............ 100,000 24
(d) National Scholarship ........... 3,000,000 25
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(e) National Close-up ............. $ 75,000 1
(f) Merit Scholarship .............. 275,000 2
(g) Aid to FSM Students in Japan ... 100,000 3
(h) Caroline College & Pastoral 4
Institute ................................. 75,000 5
(i) Faithwalk Christian College .... 75,000 6
(j) Aid to FSM Students in China ... 35,000 7
(k) Aid to FSM Students in Fiji .... 35,000 8
(7) Department of Transportation, 9
Communication & Infrastructure. 10
(a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity ..... 11,000 11
(b) International Telecommunications 12
Union(ITU) ............................... 20,867 13
(c) ICAO ........................... 28,050 14
(d) FSM Capital Energy ............. 600,000 15
(e) Micronesian Shipping Commission 25,000 16
(f) Fuel and Provisions for Caroline 17
Voyager and Navigator ..................... 1,345,830 18
(g) MS Navigator – Repair services . 100,000 19
(h) Overtime owed to Shipping crew . 100,000 20
(i) Shipment cost of ground service 21
equipment to the FSM States ............... 17,500 22
(8) Department of Justice. 23
(a) States Joint Law Enforcement: 24
Kosrae .................................... 75,000 25
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(b) States Joint Law Enforcement: 1
Pohnpei .................................. $ 200,000 2
(c) States Joint Law Enforcement: 3
Chuuk, of which $80,000 shall be used to 4
purchase two vehicles for Municipal Police 200,000 5
(d) States Joint Law Enforcement: Yap 75,000 6
(e) Police Academy ................. 200,000 7
(f) Fuel Subsidy ................... 200,000 8
(g) WIPO .......................... 33,966 9
(h) Patrol boats – replenishment for 10
unplanned search and rescue and outreach 11
trips, and additional funding for 12
administrative and humanitarian assistance 300,000 13
(i) Reimbursement for investigation and 14
prosecution to support Yap State .......... 210,000 15
(j) Interpol membership and activities 30,000 16
(k) Security for the MIF ........... 33,000 17
(9) Department of Environment, Climate 18
Change and Emergency Management 19
(a) UNEP ........................... 835 20
(b) UNFCC .......................... 325 21
(c) UNCCD .......................... 195 22
(d) SPREP Membership ............... 10,768 23
(e) Waigani Convention ............. 1,190 24
(f) SPREP-Noumea Convention ........ 1,764 25
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(g) Earth Day Activities .......... $ 15,000 1
(h) 7th Bi-Annual Environment 2
Conference ............................... 20,000 3
(i) Basel Convention ............... 197 4
(j) Kyoto Protocol ................. 484 5
(k) WMO Membership ................. 15,000 6
(10) Office of NACHP. 7
(a) UNESCO ......................... 4,000 8
(b) NCSHPO ......................... 2,760 9
(c) PARBICA ........................ 100 10
(d) PIALA .......................... 100 11
(e) WHC ............................ 54 12
(f) Library fee .................... 50 13
(11) Office of the National Public Auditor. 14
(a) APIPA – Staff Development and 15
Membership Fee ............................ 1,750 16
(b) PASAI – Staff Development and 17
Membership Fee ............................ 15,000 18
(c) 2020 Conference – Staff Development 19
and Membership Fee ........................ 29,000 20
(12) Congress of the Federated States of 21
Micronesia. 22
(a) IPU Conference, PROVIDED THAT, 23
130,000 shall be used for subsidies to 24
the IPU ................................... 230,000 25
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(b) Climate Change Conference ..... $ 50,000 1
(c) ACP ............................ 30,000 2
(d) APPF ........................... 50,000 3
(e) Staff Upgrade .................. 25,000 4
(f) World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting .. 50,000 5
(g) MRA Conference in Japan ........ 30,000 6
(h) Fisheries Meeting .............. 30,000 7
(i) IPU Annual Dues ................ 12,500 8
(j) COFA Alliance National Network 9
(CANN) .................................... 25,000 10
(k) Travel to Investment Advisor 11
(Wilshire) ............................... 70,000 12
(l) Compact Historical Project ..... 25,000 13
(m) Assistance for Jennifer Chieng/ 14
Olympic Training .......................... 25,000 15
(n) Micronesia Productions ......... 70,000 16
(o) Prior and current year Member and 17
staff housing ............................. 62,000 18
(13) Resources (Other Grants, 19
Subsidies & Contributions) 20
(a) COM Board Meeting .............. 5,000 21
(b) COM-FSM Treaty Obligation ...... 25,000 22
(c) FSM Social Security 23
Administration ............................ 1,000,000 24
(d) State Judiciaries: Kosrae ...... 40,000 25
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(e) State Judiciaries: Pohnpei .... $ 60,000 1
(f) State Judiciaries: Chuuk ....... 110,000 2
(g) State Judiciaries: Yap ......... 40,000 3
(h) National Law Day ............... 50,000 4
(i) Micronesian Legal Services 5
Corporation (MLSC) ........................ 250,000 6
(j) NORMA-Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) 62,638 7
(k) NORMA – WCPFC Tuna Commission Fee 257,284 8
(l) Independence Day Activities .... 50,000 9
(m) MLFC Loan Payment .............. 260,000 10
(n) Single Audit Fee (FY 2019) ..... 460,000 11
(o) Staff housing .................. 660,000 12
(p) Recruitment & Repatriation ..... 223,218 13
(q) Legal and Advocacy Services in 14
Washington D.C. (A&P) ..................... -0- 15
(r) Pacific Missionary Aviation–Subsidy 100,000 16
(s) Caroline Island Air – Subsidy to 17
assist with insurance costs ............... 100,000 18
(t) National Olympic Committee – Olympic 19
Qualifiers and Coaching ................... 45,000 20
(u) Saint Cecilia Catholic School—School 21
bus and classroom renovations ............. 70,000 22
(v) Acting Capacity—Jeem Lippwe .... 15,000 23
(w) Acting Capacity—Henry Shrew .... 15,000 24
(x) Micare subsidy ................. 680,000” 25
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Section 6. Section 9 of Public Law No. 21-42, as amended by 1
Public Law No. 21-55, is hereby further amended to read as 2
follows: 3
Section 9. Capital and Human Resources Development. 4
The sum of $17,049,326 or so much thereof as may be 5
necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund 6
of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 7
year ending September 30, 2020, for the following 8
capital improvements, development programs, and projects 9
and human resources development. Of the total amount of 10
funds appropriated herein, $1,000,000 shall be deemed to 11
come from funds available under the amended Compact from 12
education sector; and $1,246,022 shall be deemed to come 13
from funds available under Supplemental Education Grant. 14
The sum appropriated by this section shall be 15
apportioned as follows: 16
(1) College of Micronesia – FSM. 17
(a) College of Micronesia—FSM ..... $ 4,050,000 18
(b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime 19
Institute (FMI) ........................... 875,611 20
(c) College of Micronesia—FSM SEG 21
Funding ................................... 689,948 22
(d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ......... 300,000 23
(2) Department of Finance & Administration. 24
(a) FSM Warehouse lease & maintenance 40,000 25
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(b) PCD Awareness & Training ...... $ 15,000 1
(3) Department of Resources & Development. 2
(a) R&D SNLC ....................... 100,000 3
(b) Enhancing Tourism: Kosrae subsidy to 4
the Office of the Governor of the States 5
of Kosrae; PROVIDED THAT, no funds shall 6
be used for travel expenses ............... 250,000 7
(c) Enhancing Tourism: Pohnpei ..... 500,000 8
(d) Enhancing Tourism: Chuuk – to be 9
apportioned as follows: 10
(1) Chuuk Visitor’s Bureau ..... 120,000 11
(2) Environmental Protection 12
Agency – Solid Waste Program .............. 120,000 13
(3) Department of Agriculture – 14
Forestry & Conservation ................... 100,000 15
(4) Fisheries .................. 100,000 16
(5) Chuuk Women’s Council (CWC) 30,000 17
(6) Chuuk Public Health – non- 18
communicable disease (NDC) prevention, 19
education and outreach .................... 30,000 20
(e) Enhancing Tourism: Yap-to be used 21
for Yap Stone Money Banks and Paths, Yap 22
Historical Sites, and other land-based 23
tourism development projects; PROVIDED THAT, 24
no funds shall be used for travel expenses 25
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and no funds shall be expended until there 1
is an Official Tourism Plan in place ... $ 250,000 2
(4) Department of Transportation, 3
Communications and Infrastructure 4
(a) Operation and Dry-Docking of 5
Caroline Voyager and Navigator ............ 1,500,000 6
(b) FSM National Government 7
Computer Network .......................... 277,420 8
(c) AIP Matching Fund .............. 961,667 9
(d) Relocation of power and telephone 10
lines in Pohnpei – Madolenihmw ............ 50,000 11
(5) Department of Justice. 12
(a) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, 13
Campaign and Investigation ................ 125,000 14
(b) Victims Shelter & Services ..... 100,000 15
(c) Boat maintenance ............... 125,000 16
(6) Department of Environment, Climate 17
Change and Emergency Management. 18
(a) National & State Table Top 19
Exercise .................................. 30,000 20
(b) Outer Island Trip Assessment— 21
Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management . 80,000 22
(c) National Joint Platform for 23
Environment & Risk Resilience ............. 20,000 24
(d) International Day for Disaster 25
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Reduction .............................. $ 12,000 1
(e) Training & Maintenance for Radio 2
Communication ............................. 14,000 3
(f) Fostering Sustainable Solid Waste 4
Management Systems in FSM ................. 165,000 5
(7) National Election. 6
(a) National Election (Voter ID 7
Card Project) ............................. -0- 8
(8) Department of Health and Social Affairs. 9
(a) MOE—BHWP ....................... 22,200 10
(b) Electronic Record System ....... 50,000 11
(c) Rheumatic Heart Program ........ 120,000 12
(d) Medical Specialist Team ........ 195,000 13
(e) National Women Council ......... 50,000 14
(f) Vector Surveillance & Control 15
Program ............................... 50,000 16
(g) Histopathology laboratory ...... 60,000 17
(h) FSM Food safety laboratory ..... 40,000 18
(9) Department of Education. 19
(a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ...... 556,074 20
(b) School Accreditation ........... 250,000 21
(c) Teacher Certification Project .. 168,000 22
(d) Literacy intervention for FSM 23
Leaders of Tomorrow (LIFT) ................ 181,170 24
(e) Development of Science Student 25
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Learning Outcomes (SLOs) ................. $ 250,000 1
(f) Quality Development ............ 15,000 2
(g) NMCT administration ............ 30,000 3
(10) NORMA 4
(a) Commemoration of World Tuna 5
Day 2020 .................................. 25,000 6
(b) FFC Meetings ................... 80,000 7
(12) Other Capital and Human Resources 8
Development 9
(a) Capital Improvement Projects ... -0- 10
(b) Design and Construction of 11
Veterans Memorial ......................... 150,000 12
(c) Conservation Society in each 13
state to be apportioned as follows: 14
(1) Kosrae ..................... 25,000 15
(2) Pohnpei .................... 25,000 16
(3) Chuuk ...................... 25,000 17
(4) Yap ........................ 25,000 18
(d) 2020 Constitutional Convention 19
Convening and Expenses .................... 1,026,236 20
(e) Purchase/down payment for facility 21
house of the FSM Embassy in Japan ......... 1,500,000 22
(f) Chuuk state purchase of 23
field trip vessel ........................ 800,000 24
(g) Pohnpei State purchase of field 25
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trip vessel and operations costs ......... $ 300,000” 1
Section 7. Section 12 of Public Law No. 21-42, as amended by 2
Public Law No. 21-55, is hereby further amended to read as 3
follows: 4
“Section 12. Allotment and Management of Funds and 5
Lapse Dates. 6
(1) General provisions. 7
(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be 8
allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in 9
accordance with applicable law, including, but not 10
limited to, the Financial Management Act of 1979. 11
(b) The allottees shall be responsible for 12
ensuring that these funds, or so much thereof as may be 13
necessary, are used solely for the purposes specified in 14
this act, and that no obligations are incurred in excess 15
of the sums appropriated. 16
(2) Allottees. The allottees of the funds 17
appropriated by this act are as follows: 18
(a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall 19
be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; 20
(b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall 21
be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States 22
of Micronesia; 23
(c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall 24
be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the 25
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Federated States of Micronesia; 1
(d) Section 5 – the allottee of these funds shall 2
be the Public Auditor of the Federated States of 3
Micronesia; 4
(e) Sections 6 through 9 - the allottee of these 5
funds shall be the President of the Federated States of 6
Micronesia; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for the following 7
subsections of sections 8 through 9 of this act: 8
(i) Sections 8(1)(f) and 8(13)(q) – the 9
allottee of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint 10
Committee on Compact Review and Planning; 11
(ii) Section 8(8)(a) – the allottee of these 12
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; 13
(iii) Section 8(8)(b) – the allottee of these 14
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; 15
(iv) Section 8(8)(c) – the allottee of these 16
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; 17
(v) Section 8(8)(d) – the allottee of these 18
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; 19
(vi) Section 8(11) – the allottee of these 20
funds shall be the Public Auditor of the Federated 21
States of Micronesia; 22
(vii) Section 8(12) – the allottee of these 23
funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the 24
Federated States of Micronesia; 25
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(viii) Section 8(13)(a) – the allottee of these 1
funds shall be the President of the College of 2
Micronesia-FSM; 3
(ix) Section 8(13)(d) through (g) - the 4
allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of 5
the respective State Supreme Court; 6
(x) Section 8(13)(h) - the allottee of these 7
funds shall be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 8
the Federated States of Micronesia 9
(xi) Section 9(1) – the allottee of these 10
funds shall be the President of the College of 11
Micronesia-FSM; 12
(xii) Section 9(3)(b) – the allottee of these 13
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; 14
(xiii) Section 9(3)(c) – the allottee of these 15
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; 16
(xiv) Section 9(3)(d) – the allottee of these 17
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; 18
(xv) Section 9(3)(e) – the allottee of these 19
funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; 20
(xvi) Section 9(12)(b) – the allottee of 21
these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the 22
Federated States of Micronesia. 23
(xvii) Section 9(12)(f) and 9(12)(g) – the 24
allottee of these funds shall be the Secretary of the 25
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Department of Transportation, Communications and 1
Infrastructure; 2
(3) Lapse date. The authority of the allottees to 3
obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as 4
of September 30, 2020; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the funds 5
appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not 6
lapse.” 7
Section 8. This act shall become law upon approval by the 8
President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 9
becoming law without such approval. 10
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/s/ David W. Panuelo 18 David W. Panuelo President 19 Federated States of Micronesia 20
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