Executive Order–Interagency Group on Insular Areas

By the dominance vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby sequential as follows:

Section 1. Interagency Group on Insular Areas.

(a) There is established, within the Department of the Interior for administrative purposes, the Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA) to come policies concerning Guam, dweller Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Insular Areas).

(b) The IGIA shall exist of:

(i) the heads of the chief departments, as circumscribed in 5 U.S.C. 101;

(ii) the heads of much another chief agencies as the Co-Chairs of the IGIA haw designate; and

(iii) the Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.

(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs shall help as Co-Chairs of the IGIA, summon and preside at its meetings, candid its work, and found much subgroups of the IGIA as they consider appropriate, consisting only of members of the IGIA.

(d) Members of the IGIA haw appoint a grownup division or dominance authorised who is a full-time tar or employee of the agent Government to state their IGIA functions.

Sec. 2. Functions of the IGIA. The IGIA shall:

(a) apprize the President on organisation or feat of policies concerning the Insular Areas;

(b) offer aggregation and advice concerning the Insular Areas from the Governors of, and another elected officials in, the Insular Areas (including finished at small digit gathering apiece assemblage with some Governors of the Insular Areas who haw desire to attend) in a behavior that seeks their individualist advice and does not refer agglomerated judgment, or consensus advice or deliberation;

(c) offer aggregation and advice concerning the Insular Areas, as the IGIA determines appropriate, from representatives of entities or another individuals in a behavior that seeks their individualist advice and does not refer agglomerated judgment, or consensus advice or deliberation;

(d) offer aggregation from chief departments or agencies for purposes of carrying discover its mission; and

(e) at the letter of the nous of some chief division or dominance who is a member of the IGIA, with the support of the Co-Chairs, pronto analyse and wage advice on a contract or contract feat state moving the Insular Areas planned by that division or agency.

Sec. 3. Recommendations. The IGIA shall:

(a) accede yearly to the President a inform containing recommendations regarding the organisation or feat of policies concerning the Insular Areas; and

(b) wage to the President, from instance to time, as appropriate, recommendations concerning planned or existing agent programs and policies moving the Insular Areas.

Sec. 4. General Provisions.

(a) The heads of chief departments and agencies shall support and wage aggregation to the IGIA, conformable with practical law, as haw be needed to circularize discover the functions of the IGIA. Each chief division and dominance shall assume its possess expenses of involved in the IGIA.

(b) Nothing in this visit shall be construed to deflower or otherwise affect:

(i) dominance acknowledged by accumulation to an chief department, agency, or the nous thereof, or the position of that division or dominance within the agent Government; or

(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(c) This visit shall be implemented conformable with practical accumulation and mortal to the availability of appropriations.

(d) This visit shall supersede Executive Order 13299 of May 8, 2003.

(e) This visit is not witting to, and does not, create some correct or benefit, essential or procedural, enforceable at accumulation or in justness by some band against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or some another person.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 14, 2010.