Responsibilities and Authorities
- Responsibilities of OIA:
The Secretary of the Interior has administrative responsibility for coordinating federal policy in the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the responsibility to administer and oversee U.S. federal assistance provided to the Freely Associated States of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau under the Compacts of Free Association. The Office of Insular Affairs executes these responsibilities on behalf of the Secretary.
- Authorities of the Secretary of Interior:
- 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
- U.S. Virgin Islands – Revised Organic Act of 1954
- Northern Mariana Islands – Executive Order 12572, November 3, 1986
- Coral Reef Protection – Executive Order 13089, June 11, 1998
- Establishment of IGIA – Executive Order 13299, May 8, 2003
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