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TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FIFTH REGULAR SESSION, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO.

20-248 P.C.

NO.

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20-131 AN ACT To appropriate $64,819,927 from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, to provide funding for the operations of all branches of the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, its agencies, various programs, grants, subsidies and contributions and Capital and Human Resources Development, and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 1 Section 1.

Purpose.
Purpose.

The purpose of this act is to 2 appropriate the sum of $64,819,927 from the General Fund of the 3 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 4 September 30, 2019, for the purpose of funding the operations of 5 all branches of the National Government of the Federated States of 6 Micronesia, its agencies, various programs, grants, subsidies and 7 contributions and Capital and Human Resources Development.
The 8 National Government’s share of the Amended Compact funds has been 9 reduced to zero; EXCEPT THAT; the National Government will retain 10 the Compact Sector Grant amount for COM-FSM and 10 percent of the 11 Supplemental Education Grant funds as is reflected in the budget 12 for the Department of Education.

The sum appropriated herein shall 13 be apportioned as follows: 14 Section 2.

Operating Expenses of the Executive Branch.


The 15 sum of $22,721,204, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 16 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 17 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, for 18 the purpose of funding the operations of the Executive Branch of CBL 20-269 P.C.

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20-248 1 the National Government during the fiscal year 2019.
The sum 2 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 3 (1) Office of the President.

4 The sum of $1,449,999, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 5 the operations of the Office of the President during the fiscal 6 year 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 7 follows: Personnel ..................................$ 592,999 Travel ..................................... 312,000 Contractual Services........................ 420,000 OCE ........................................ 119,500 Fixed Assets ............................... 5,500 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
14 The sum of $5,438,695, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 15 the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs during the 16 fiscal year 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 17 apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 1,754,271 Travel ..................................... 377,221 Contractual Services........................ 2,802,788 OCE ........................................ 348,007 Fixed Assets ............................... 156,408 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
24 The sum of $2,995,654, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 25 the operations of the Department of Finance and Administration 2 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 during the fiscal year 2019.


The sum appropriated herein shall be 2 apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 2,039,754 Travel ..................................... 290,000 Contractual Services........................ 227,500 OCE ........................................ 277,900 Fixed Assets ............................... 160,500 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
9 The sum of $1,482,494, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 10 the operations of the Department of Resources and Development 11 during the fiscal year 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 12 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................... $ 907,313 Travel ..................................... .. 286,791 Contractual Services........................ .. 59,850 OCE ........................................... 184,540 Fixed Assets ............................... .. 44,000 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and 19 Infrastructure.
20 The sum of $2,571,860, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 21 the operations of the Department of Transportation, Communications 22 and Infrastructure during the fiscal year 2019.

The sum 23 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 24 25 Personnel .................................. $ 594,172 Travel ..................................... 191,584 3 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 2 3 4 Contractual Services........................$ 1,589,504 OCE ........................................ 58,600 Fixed Assets ............................... 138,000 (6) Department of Health and Social Affairs.

5 The sum of $891,182, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 6 the operations of the Department of Health and Social Affairs 7 during the fiscal year 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 8 apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 501,499 Travel ..................................... 154,215 Contractual Services........................ 118,617 OCE ........................................ 113,851 Fixed Assets ............................... 3,000 (7) Department of Education.
15 The sum of $806,701, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 16 the operations of the Department of Education during the fiscal 17 year 2019.

Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, 18 $350,598 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the 19 Supplemental Education Grant.
The sum appropriated herein shall 20 be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 429,123 Travel ..................................... 175,001 Contractual Services........................ 159,226 OCE ........................................ .

40,151 Fixed Assets ............................... 3,200 4 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 (8) Department of Justice.


2 The sum of $4,926,423, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 3 the operations of the Department of Justice during the fiscal year 4 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 5 follows: Personnel ................................. $ 3,251,901 Travel .................................... 374,802 Contractual Services....................... 651,977 OCE ....................................... 370,443 Fixed Assets .............................. 277,300 (9) Office of the Public Defender.
12 The sum of $1,112,151, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 13 the operations of the Office of the Public Defender during the 14 fiscal year 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 15 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 744,081 Travel ..................................... 140,120 Contractual Services........................ 101,050 OCE ........................................ 86,900 Fixed Assets ............................... 40,000 (10) Department of Environment, Climate Change and 22 Emergency Management.
23 The sum of $841,154, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 24 the operations of the Office of Environment and Emergency 25 Management during the fiscal year 2019.

The sum appropriated 5 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 544,055 Travel ..................................... 183,379 Contractual Services........................ OCE ........................................

Fixed Assets ............................... 50,000 47,120 16,600 (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation.
9 The sum of $204,891, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 10 the operations of the Office of National Archives, Culture and 11 Historic Preservation during the fiscal year 2019.
The sum 12 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 138,576 Travel ..................................... 35,574 Contractual Services........................ 10,452 OCE ........................................ 20,289 Fixed Assets ............................... -0- Section 3.

Operating Expenses of the Legislative 19 Branch.


The sum of $5,956,360, or so much thereof as may be 20 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 21 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 22 September 30, 2019, for the operations of the Legislative Branch 23 of the National Government during fiscal year 2019.

The sum 24 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 25 (1) Speaker and Members.

6 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 The sum of $2,915,650, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 2 the operations of the Office of the Speaker and Members of the 3 Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia during fiscal year 4 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 5 follows: Personnel .................................. $ 438,150 Travel ..................................... 853,000 Contractual Services, of which up to $50,000 may be used to assist Members and staff with medical costs and up to $20,000 may be used to pay for outstanding prior year obligations........................ ......... 1,624,500 OCE ........................................
Fixed Assets ............................... -0- -0- (2) Staff Offices.

16 The sum of $2,200,710, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 17 the operations of the Congress staff offices during fiscal year 18 2019.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 19 follows: Personnel .................................. $ 1,119,710 Travel...................................... 150,000 Contractual Services........................ 485,000 OCE........................................ .
346,000 Fixed Assets................................ 100,000 (3) Congress Delegation Offices.

7 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 The sum of $840,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 2 the operations of the Congress delegation offices during the 3 fiscal year 2019.
Of the amounts appropriated for contractual 4 services within each Delegation Office, up to a maximum of $50,000 5 per Member, at the Delegation Offices’ discretion, may be used for 6 Representation.

The sum appropriated is apportioned as follows: (a) Kosrae Delegation Office Travel ......................... $ Contractual Services ............. OCE ..............................
Fixed Assets ..................... 20,000 80,000 20,000 -0- TOTAL ............................ 120,000 (b) Pohnpei Delegation Office Travel .......................... -0- Contractual Services ............. 220,000 OCE .............................. 20,000 Fixed Assets ..................... -0- TOTAL ............................ 240,000 (c) Chuuk Delegation Office Travel .......................... -0- Contractual Services ............. 320,000 OCE ..............................
Fixed Assets ..................... 30,000 10,000 TOTAL ............................ 360,000 (d) Yap Delegation Office 8 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 Travel ......................... $ 20,000 Contractual Services ............. 70,000 OCE .............................. 25,000 Fixed Assets ..................... 5,000 TOTAL ............................ 120,000 Section 4.

Operating Expenses of the National Judicial 7 Branch.
The sum of $1,548,267, or so much thereof as may be 8 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 9 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 10 September 30, 2019, for the operations of the Judicial Branch of 11 the National Government during the fiscal year 2019.
The sum 12 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel...................................$ 944,560 Travel...................................... 160,693 Contractual Services........................ 197,809 OCE......................................... 195,205 Fixed Assets................................ 50,000 Section 5.

Operating Expenses of the National Public 19 Auditor.
The sum of $876,771, or so much thereof as may be 20 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 21 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 22 September 30, 2019, for the operations of the National Office of 23 the Public Auditor.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be 24 apportioned as follows: 25 Personnel ..................................$ 562,271 9 of 28 P.C.

NO.

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20-248 Travel......................................$ 139,000 Contractual Services........................ 99,000 OCE......................................... 66,500 Fixed Assets................................ 10,000 Section 6.

Operating Expenses of Agencies of the 6 National Government.
The sum of $2,741,713, or so much thereof as 7 may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of 8 the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 9 September 30, 2019, for the operations of the following boards, 10 commissions and agencies during the fiscal year 2019.

The sum 11 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 12 (1) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority 13 (NORMA).
14 The sum of $788,712, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 15 the operations of NORMA for the fiscal year 2019.

The sum 16 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 386,964 Travel...................................... 185,698 Contractual Services........................ 142,750 OCE......................................... 73,300 Fixed Assets................................ -0- (2) Board of Regents (COM-FSM).
23 The sum of $115,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 24 the operations of the Board of Regents, COM-FSM during the fiscal 25 year 2019.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 10 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 follows: Personnel.....................................$ Travel........................................
Contractual Services.......................... -0- -0- -0- OCE........................................... $115,000 Fixed Assets.................................. -0- (3) FSM Banking Board.

8 The sum of $220,552, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 9 the operations of FSM Banking Board during the fiscal year 2019.

10 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ Travel......................................
Contractual Services........................ OCE.........................................

Fixed Assets................................ (4) FSM Insurance Board.

93,068 84,726 22,225 19,033 1,500 17 The sum of $633,270, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 18 the operations of FSM Insurance Board during the fiscal year 2019.
19 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 119,805 Travel...................................... 76,420 Contractual Services........................ 414,255 OCE.........................................

Fixed Assets................................ 20,790 2,000 (5) FSM Postal Services.

11 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 The sum of $984,179, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 2 the operations of the National Postal Services during the fiscal 3 year 2019.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 4 follows: Personnel...................................$ 533,861 Travel...................................... 70,542 Contractual Services........................ 207,119 OCE......................................... 151,657 Fixed Assets................................ 21,000 10 Section 7.

Special Programs.
Special Programs.

11 The sum of $410,017, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 12 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 13 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, for 14 the following special programs during fiscal year 2019.

The sum 15 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 16 (1) National Election Commission Office.
17 The sum of $410,017, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 18 the operations of National Election Office during the fiscal year 19 2019.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 20 follows: Personnel...................................$ 255,821 Travel...................................... 22,080 Contractual Services........................ 59,153 OCE......................................... 72,963 Fixed Assets................................ -0- 12 of 28 P.C.

NO.
NO.

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20-248 1 Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.

2 The sum of $14,267,831, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 3 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 4 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, for 5 the following grants, subsidies and contributions during fiscal 6 year 2019.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be 7 apportioned as follows: 8 9 (1) Office of the President.
(a) Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting 10 Development (AIBD) ................................. $ 4,500 11 12 (b) Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union ..... 800 (c) Pacific Island News Association ..... 350 13 (d) Asia Pacific Investment ............. 250 14 (e) Former Presidents’ Allowance ........ 50,000 15 (f) Joint Committee on Compact Review 16 and Planning (JCRP) ................................. 390,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
(a) The Forum Secretariat ............... 57,000 (b) Secretariat for Pacific Community .. 65,000 (c) ESCAP ............................... 5,000 (d) UN Membership Fee.................... 50,000 (e) East-West Center .................... 5,000 (f) ACP Cotonou Membership Fees ......... 17,000 (g) SPC Office Rental ................... 29,670 (h) Pacific Island Forum ................ -0- 13 of 28 P.C.

NO.

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20-248 (i) SIS Program..........................$ 10,000 (j) IOM Membership Fee .................. 600 (k) SPC Host Grant ...................... 20,000 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.

(a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee .............. 14,024 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial 7 Management Information System (FMIS).
............... 55,000 8 9 (c) PITTA – CTA ......................... 9,000 (d) ADB, IMF and Budget, Finance 10 Policy Consultations ................................ 25,000 (e) Macro Economist Advisor ............. 200,000 (f) Global Forum Membership Fee ......... 26,000 (g) PFTAC Membership Fee ................ 20,000 (h) CTA Conference ...................... 35,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
(a) Pacific Islands Development 17 Program (PIDF)...... ............................... 15,000 (b) Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Fee .... 62,638 (c) Pacific Asian Travel Association (PATA) 6,000 (d) United Nations Development Program (UNDP) 30,000 (e) Micronesian Challenge Endowment Fund 100,000 (f) Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) .

4,800 (g) Western Forestry Leadership Coalition.


530 (h) Matching to SPC Projects ............ 60,000 (i) Micronesian Challenge ............... 10,000 14 of 28 P.C.

NO.

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20-248 1 2 3 (j) Micronesian Cruise Association ..... $ 2,500 (k) South Pacific Tourism Organization .. 8,000 (l) International Animal Health 4 Organization (OIE) ................................. 23,000 (m) IRENA ............................... 250 (n) Micronesia Trade Commission .......... 30,000 (o) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1,000 (p) IFAD ................................. 500 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) UNFPA ............................... 3,000 (b) WHO ................................. 4,650 (c) FSM Sport Association ............... -0- (d) PIHOA ............................... 20,000 (e) Territorial Health .................. 4,000 (f) Nurse Licensing ..................... 20,000 (g) Red Cross ........................... 70,000 (h) Vaccine Purchase .................... 50,000 18 (i) UN Women ............................ 1,000 19 (j) Drug Quality Testing Project.
....... 4,000 (6) Department of Education.

(a) Aid to Non-Public Schools ........... 600,000 (b) Aid to CMI Students ................. 40,000 (c) Aid to PCC Students ................. 150,000 (d) National Scholarship ................ 2,250,000 (e) National Close-Up ................... 75,000 15 of 28 P.C.

NO.

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20-248 (f) Merit Scholarship .................. $ 275,000 (g) Aid to FSM Students in Japan ........ 100,000 (h) Caroline College & Pastoral Institute 50,000 (i) Faithwalk Christian College ......... 50,000 (7) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.
(a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity .......... 11,000 (b) International Telecommunication Union 20,867 (c) ICAO ................................ 28,050 (d) FSM Capital Energy .................. 600,000 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission (MSC) 25,000 12 (f) Fuel and Provisions for Caroline 13 Voyager and Navigator ............................... 1,345,830 (8) Department of Justice.

(a) States Joint Law Enforcement: Kosrae.


30,000 (b) States Joint Law Enforcement: Pohnpei 50,000 (c) States Joint Law Enforcement: Chuuk .

100,000 (d) States Joint Law Enforcement: Yap ... 30,000 (e) Police Academy ...................... 200,000 20 (f) Settlement on Civil Action Nos.
21 2013-036, 2017-027, and 2017-029 .................... 21,198 22 (g) Fuel Subsidy ........................ 100,000 23 (h) Contract for Mr. Jim Stovall for 24 legal support for JCRP .............................. 160,000 25 (9) Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia 16 of 28 P.C.

NO.

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20-248 (a) IPU Conferences .................... $ 100,000 (b) Climate Change Conferences .......... 50,000 (c) ACP ............................... 30,000 (d) APPU ............................... -0- (e) APPF ............................... 50,000 (f) Staff Upgrade ....................... 25,000 (g) World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting ....... 50,000 (h) MRA Conference in Japan ............. 30,000 (i) Fisheries Meetings .................. 30,000 (j) IPU Annual Dues ..................... 12,500 (k) COFA Alliance National Network (CANN).
25,000 (l) Travel to Investment Advisor (Wilshire) 70,000 (m) Compact Historical Project .......... 150,000 (10) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) UNEP ................................ (b) UNFCCC .............................. (c) UNCCD ............................... 835 325 195 (d) SPREP Membership .................... 10,768 (e) Waigani Convention .................. 1,190 (f) SPREP-Noumea Convention ............. 1,764 (g) Earth Day Activities ................. 15,000 (h) 6th Bi-Annual Environment Conference .. 20,000 (i) FSM FEMA Disaster Matching .......... (j) Basel Convention .................... -0- 197 17 of 28 P.C.
NO.

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20-248 (k) Kyoto Protocol ..................... $ 484 (l) WMO Membership ...................... 15,000 (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation (a) UNESCO .............................. 4,000 (b) NCSHPO .............................. 2,760 (c) PARBICA ............................. (d) PIALA ............................... (e) WHC ................................. 100 100 54 (f) Library Fee ......................... 50 (12) Other Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.
(a) COM Board Meeting .................. .
5,000 (b) COM-FSM Treaty Obligation ........... 25,000 (c) FSM Social Security Administration .. 1,000,000 (d) FSM National Government Employee’s 16 Health Insurance Plan ............................... -0- (e) State Judiciaries: Kosrae ........... 40,000 (f) State Judiciaries: Pohnpei .......... 60,000 (g) State Judiciaries: Chuuk ............ 110,000 (h) State Judiciaries: Yap .............. 40,000 (i) Micronesian Legal Services 22 Corporation (MLSC) ................................. 250,000 23 24 25 (j) NORMA – WCPFC Tuna Commission Fee ... 257,284 (k) Independence Day Activities ......... 50,000 (l) MLFC Loan Payment ................... 260,000 18 of 28 P.C.
NO.

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20-248 (m) Single Audit Fee (FY 2018) ......... $ 460,000 (n) Staff Housing ....................... 510,000 (o) Recruitment and Repatriation ........ 223,218 (p) 2019 General Election ............... 350,000 (q) Legal and Advocacy Services in 6 Washington D.C. (A&P) ............................... 2,000,000 7 Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.


8 The sum of $16,297,764, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 9 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 10 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, for 11 the following capital improvements, development programs, and 12 projects and human resources development.
Of the total amount of 13 funds appropriated herein, $1,246,022 shall be deemed to come from 14 funds available under the Supplemental Education Grant and 15 $1,000,000 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the 16 Compact Sector Grants.

The sum appropriated by this section shall 17 be apportioned as follows: 18 19 20 (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.
(a) College of Micronesia–FSM ..... $ 4,050,000 (b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime 21 Institute (FMI) .................................... 875,611 22 (c) College of Micronesia-FSM 23 SEG Funding ......................................... 689,948 24 (d) COM-FSM Building Infrastructure 25 Project ........................................... -0- 19 of 28 P.C.

NO.

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20-248 (e) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ....... $ 316,000 (2) Department of Finance and Administration (a) FSM Warehouse Lease and Maintenance 40,000 (b) PCD Awareness and Training .......... 15,000 (3) Department of Resources and Development (a) FSM Association of Chamber of 7 Commerce/ Support to COC ............................ 67,000 8 9 (b) R&D SNLC ............................ 60,000 (c) National Coastal Fisheries 10 Monitoring Team .................................... 16,325 11 (d) Strengthening Organizational 12 Planning, Management & Accountability Capacity of 13 National/State Private Sector Organizations in the FSM 42,319 14 15 16 (e) Computing Facility Upgrade .......... 155,000 (f) 2020 CPH ............................ 1,516,315 (g) Enhancing Tourism: Kosrae – 17 subsidy to the Office of the Governor of the state 18 of Kosrae; PROVIDED THAT, no funds shall be used 19 for travel expenses ................................. 500,000 20 21 (h) Enhancing Tourism: Pohnpei - ....... 750,000 (i) Enhancing Tourism: Chuuk – to be 22 apportioned as follows: ............................. 750,000 23 24 (1) Chuuk Visitor’s Bureau ......... 230,000 (2) Environmental Protection Agency – 25 Solid Waste Program ............................... 200,000 20 of 28 P.C.
NO.

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20-248 1 (3) Department of Agriculture – 2 Forestry & Conservation ............................ $ 100,000 3 (4) Department of Marine Resources – 4 Watershed Protection & Invasive Species Plan ........ 200,000 5 6 (5) CWC ............................ 20,000 (j) Enhancing Tourism: Yap – to be 7 apportioned as follows: ............................. 500,000 8 9 (1) Yap Chamber of Commerce ........ 50,000 (2) Airport Improvement - for the 10 purchase and installation of X-ray screening 11 equipment and baggage carousel at airport ........... 450,000 12 (4) Department of Transportation, Communications 13 and Infrastructure 14 (a) Operation and Dry-Docking of Caroline 15 Voyager and Navigator ................................ 1,500,000 16 17 (b) Outer Island Airports ............... -0- (c) FSM National Government 18 Computer Network .................................... 100,000 19 20 21 22 (d) New Warehouse Building .............. 200,000 (e) Airport needs ....................... 220,000 (5) Department of Justice (a) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, 23 Campaign, and Investigation .......................... 100,000 24 25 (b) Victim Shelter and Services ......... 100,000 (6) Department of Environment, Climate Change 21 of 28 P.C.
NO.

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20-248 1 2 and Emergency Management (a) Fourth Disaster Risk Management 3 Environment Conference ............................ $ 30,000 4 5 (b) National & State Table Top Exercise .
30,000 (c) Outer Island Trip Assessment – 6 Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management ........... 80,000 7 8 (7) President’s Office (a) FSM Trust Fund ....................... -0- 9 (8) National Election Commission Office 10 (a) Voter ID Card and New Voter 11 Registration Project ............................... 242,322 12 (9) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) Health Services Special Pathologist .. -0- (b) Food/Water Lab ....................... 58,000 (c) Medical Team ......................... -0- (d) Doctors: Foundation Project ......... -0- (e) MOE-BHWP Med ........................ 22,200 (10) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ............ 556,074 (b) School Accreditation ................. 200,000 (c) Teacher Certification Project ........ 168,000 (d) Development Quality.
................. 82,650 (11) Department of Foreign Affairs (a) FSM Embassy in Suva, Fiji Residence .. 300,000 25 (12) NORMA 22 of 28 P.C.

NO.

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20-248 1 2 3 4 (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day 2019 $ 25,000 (b) FFC Meetings.
........................ 80,000 (13) National Postal Services (a) Postal Management and 5 Financial Services ................................... 210,000 6 7 8 9 (14) Telecommunication Regulation Authority (a) Subsidy: Startup Needs of TRA ........ 150,000 (15) Other Capital and Human Resources Development (a) Conservation Society in each 10 state to be apportioned as follows: ................. 200,000 (1) Kosrae .......................... 50,000 (2) Pohnpei ......................... 50,000 (3) Chuuk ........................... 50,000 (4) Yap ............................. 50,000 (b) Pohnpei State Supreme Court Renovation 100,000 (c) Capital Improvement Projects: 17 Kosrae – for 3G coverage ............................ 300,000 18 19 (d) Capital Improvement Projects: Pohnpei 300,000 (e) Capital Improvement Projects: 20 Chuuk – to be apportioned as Follows: ............... 300,000 21 22 23 (1) Mida’s Vessels ................. 50,000 (2) Sea Heaven Charter ............. 50,000 (3) Weno Road & heavy 24 Equipment purchase .................................. 200,000 25 (f) Capital Improvement Projects: 23 of 28 P.C.
NO.

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20-248 1 Yap – to fund construction of a library and 2 science lab at Yap Catholic High School ............ $ 300,000 3 Section 10.

Employment Ceilings.
The maximum number of 4 positions for each branch and agency of the National Government 5 of the Federated States of Micronesia for fiscal year 2019 shall 6 be as follows: (1) Executive Branch ...................... .. 554 (2) Legislative Branch ................... ... (3) Judicial Branch ..................... .... (4) Public Auditor ....................... ... (5) Agencies: (a) National Oceanic Resource 13 Management Authority................ ............... (b) FSM Banking Board.................... (c) FSM Insurance Board ................. (d) National Postal Services............. (6) Special Programs: (a) National Election Commission 67 35 23 21 4 5 40 19 Office............................... ............... 13 20 Section 11.
Reprogramming.

Reprogramming of funds into or 21 from the personnel budget line item shall not be permitted.

The 22 President, Speaker, Chief Justice and Public Auditor may reprogram 23 up to 10% percent to or from the funds appropriated in sections 2 24 (Operating Expenses of the Executive Branch), 3 (Operating 25 Expenses of the Legislative Branch), 4 (Operating Expenses of the 24 of 28 P.C.

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20-248 1 National Judicial Branch), and 5 (Operating Expenses of the 2 National Public Auditor).

Reprogramming of funds within a 3 department, office or agency shall be effected by the head of such 4 department, office or agency by specifying in writing to the 5 Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration of the 6 FSM National Government, the accounts for which funding is either 7 increased or decreased.
Reprogramming other than as specified 8 herein is not permitted, and more specifically, reprogramming into 9 or out of any line item contained in section 8 (Grants, Subsidies 10 and Contributions) or section 9 (Capital and Human Resources 11 Development) is not permitted.

The President shall report to 12 Congress within one month of the last day of each financial 13 quarter all amounts reprogrammed inter or intra a department, 14 office or agency.

15 Section 12.
15 Section 12.

Allotment and Management of Funds and Lapse 16 Dates.

17 18 (1) General provisions.

(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be 19 allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance 20 with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the 21 Financial Management Act of 1979.
22 (b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring 23 that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are 24 used solely for the purposes specified in this act, and that no 25 obligations are incurred in excess of the sums appropriated.

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20-248 1 2 3 (2) Allottees.
The allottees of the funds appropriated by this act are as follows: (a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall be 4 the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; 5 (b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall be 6 the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; 7 (c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall be 8 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of 9 Micronesia; 10 (d) Section 5 – the allottee of these funds shall be 11 the Public Auditor of the Federated States of Micronesia; 12 (e) Sections 6 through 9 - the allottee of these 13 funds shall be the President of the Federated States of 14 Micronesia; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for the following subsections 15 of sections 8 through 9 of this act: 16 (i) Sections 8(1)(f) and 8(8)(h) – the allottee 17 of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint Committee on 18 Compact Review and Planning; 19 (ii) Section 8(8)(c) – the allottee of these 20 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; 21 (iii) Section 8(9) – the allottee of these funds 22 shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of 23 Micronesia; 24 (iv) Section 8(12)(a) – the allottee of these 25 funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; 26 of 28 P.C.
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20-248 1 (v) Section 8(12)(e) through (h) - the allottee 2 of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the respective State 3 Supreme Court; 4 (vi) Section 8(12)(q) – the allottee of these 5 funds shall be the Chair of the Joint Committee on Compact Review 6 and Planning; 7 (vii) Section 9(1) – the allottee of these funds 8 shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; 9 (viii) Section 9(3)(g) – the allottee of these 10 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; 11 (ix) Section 9(3)(h) – the allottee of these 12 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; 13 (x) Section 9(3)(i) – the allottee of these funds 14 shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; 15 (xi) Section 9(3)(j) – the allottee of these 16 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; 17 (xii) Section 9(14) – the allottee of these funds 18 shall be Telecommunication Regulation Authority; 19 (xiii) Section 9(15)(a)(1) – the allottee of 20 these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; 21 (xiv) Section 9(15)(a)(2) – the allottee of these 22 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; 23 (xv) Section 9(15)(a)(3) – the allottee of these 24 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; 25 (xvi) Section 9(15)(a)(4) – the allottee of these 27 of 28 P.C.
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20-248 1 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; 2 (xvii) Section 9(15)(d) – the allottee of these 3 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; 4 (xviii) Section 9(15)(e) – the allottee of these 5 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk.

6 (3) Lapse date.
6 (3) Lapse date.

The authority of the allottees 7 to obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of 8 September 30, 2019; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the funds appropriated 9 under section 9 of this act shall not lapse.

10 Section 13.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 11 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 12 becoming law without such approval.
September 27, 2018 /s/ Peter M. Christian Peter M. Christian President Federated States of Micronesia 28 of 28