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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FIFTH REGULAR SESSION, 2022 C.B.

NO.

22-239 A BILL FOR AN ACT To further amend sections 9 and 12 of Public Law No.

20-131, as amended by Public Laws Nos.

20-154, 20-159, 20-172, 20-187, 21-03, 21-10, 21-38, 21-51, 21-70, 21-81, 22-55 and 22-83, to change the use and allottee of funds previously appropriated therein, and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 1 Section 1.
Section 9 of Public Law No.

20-131, as 2 amended by Public Laws Nos.

20-154, 20-159, 20-172, 20-187, 3 21-03, 21-10, 21-38, 21-81, 22-55 and 22-83, is hereby further 4 amended to read as follows: “Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.


The sum of $40,543,837, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, for the following capital improvements, development programs, and projects and human resources development.
Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, $1,256,025 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the Supplemental Education Grant and $1,000,000 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the Compact Sector Grants.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.

5 CBL 22-246 C.B.

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22-239 (a) College of Micronesia—FSM ...... $ 4,050,000 (b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime Institute (FMI) ............................ 875,611 (c) College of Micronesia— FSM SEG Funding ............................ 689,948 (d) COM—FSM Building Infrastructure Project .................................... -0- (e) COM—FSM Endowment Fund .......... 316,000 (f) Outstanding tuition of current and former students with a balance of over $50 and minimum GPA of 2.0 ............ 300,000 (2) Department of Finance and Administration (a) FSM Warehouse Lease and Maintenance 40,000 (b) PCD Awareness and Training ...... 15,000 (c) Municipal Accounting System ..... 50,000 (d) FSM Trust Fund Board Members and Secretariat Operational Funding Support ............................ -0- (3) Department of Resources and Development (a) FSM Association of Chamber of Commerce/Support to COC .................... 67,000 (b) R&D SNLC ........................ 60,000 (c) National Coastal Fisheries Monitoring Team ............................ 16,325 (d) Strengthening Organizational 2 of 12 C.B.
NO.
22-239 Planning, Management & Accountability Capacity of National/State Private Sector Organizations in the FSM .................. $ 42,319 (e) 2018/19 Household Income and Expenditure Survey ......................... 155,000 (f) 2020 CPH ........................ 1,516,315 (g) Kosrae – subsidy to the Office of the Governor of the State of Kosrae; PROVIDED THAT, no funds shall be used for travel expenses ............................ 500,000 (h) Enhancing Tourism: Pohnpei ..... 750,000 (i) Enhancing Tourism: Chuuk – to be apportioned as follows: ................. 750,000 (1) Chuuk Visitors Bureau ....... 230,000 (2) Environmental Protection Agency –Solid Waste Program ............ 200,000 (3) Department of Agriculture – Forestry & Conservation ................ 100,000 (4) Department of Marine Resources – Watershed Protection & Invasive Species Plan; PROVIDED THAT purchase of fixed assets needed to implement the identified projects under this line item is allowed 200,000 (5) CWC ......................... 20,000 (j) Enhancing Tourism: Yap – to be 3 of 12 C.B.
NO.
22-239 apportioned as follows: ............... $ 500,000 (1) Yap Chamber of Commerce ..... 50,000 (2) Airport Improvement – for the purchase and installation of X-ray screening equipment and baggage carousel at airport .................... -0- (4) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure (a) Operation and Dry-Docking of Caroline Voyager and Navigator ............. 1,500,000 (b) Outer Island Airports ........... -0- (c) FSM National Government Computer Network 277,420 (d) New Warehouse Building .......... 200,000 (e) Airport needs ................... 230,000 (f) Chief Mailo Supplemental dry-docking & repair and other needs ....... 600,000 (g) FSMTCC (OAE – IRU) ............. 500,000 (h) Telin invoices .................. 340,000 (i) FSM Contribution – China Aid Projects ................................... 500,000 (j) To supplement back-up generator .
244,000 (k) Palikir Capital Complex Road Improvement ................................ 300,000 (l) Micronesian Navigator (damage 4 of 12 C.B.

NO.
22-239 repair & generator ........................ $ 157,000 (5) Department of Justice (a) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, Campaign, and Investigation ... 100,000 (b) Victim Shelter and Services ..... 100,000 (6) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) Fourth Disaster Risk Management Environment Conference ..................... 30,000 (b) National & State Table Top Exercise ................................... 30,000 (c) Outer Island Trip Assessment – Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management ................................ 80,000 (d) DECCEM—Contract GIS Survey services—Kosrae, Chuuk & Yap ............... 180,000 (7) President’s Office (a) FSM Trust Fund .................. 10,000,000 (8) National Election Commission Office (a) Voter ID Card and New Voter Registration Project ................... 242,322 (9) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) Histo Pathologist ............... 58,000 (b) Food/Water lab .................. 58,000 (c) Medical Team .................... -0- 5 of 12 C.B.
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22-239 (d) Doctors: Foundation Project ... $ -0- (e) MOE—BHWP Med .................... 22,200 (f) Electronic Health Record System.
150,000 (g) Rheumatic Heart Program ......... 110,000 (h) Private Room Facilities at Pohnpei Hospital ........................... 450,000 (i) Support to Yap State for Dengue Outbreak and State of Health Crisis ........ 300,000 (10) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ....... 566,077 (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 (b) Down-payment for the purchase of facility to house FSM Embassy in Tokyo, Japan ............................... 4,500,000 (12) NORMA (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day 2019 ................................... 25,000 (b) FFC Meetings .................... 80,000 (13) National Postal Services (a) Postal Management and Financial Services ................................... 210,000 6 of 12 C.B.
NO.
22-239 (14) Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (a) Subsidy: Startup needs of TRA $ 150,000 (15) Other Capital and Human Resources Development (a) Conservation Society in each 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 ..... 100,000 (c) Capital Improvement Projects: Kosrae – for 3G coverage ................... 300,000 (d) Capital Improvement Projects: Pohnpei .................................... 300,000 (e) Capital Improvement Projects: Chuuk – to be apportioned as follows: ...... 300,000 (1) Mida’s Vessels .............. 50,000 (2) [Sea Haven] Narik Mataw Charter 50,000 (3) Weno Road & heavy Equipment purchase .......................... [200,000] -0- (f) Capitol Improvement Projects: Yap – to fund construction of a library and science lab at Yap Catholic High School 300,000 (g) Land Acquisition – Guam ......... 1,500,000 7 of 12 C.B.
NO.

22-239 (h) Dialysis Machine – Pohnpei State Hospital .................................. $ 300,000 (i) FSM National Women’s Council .... 50,000 (j) Palikir Water System project .... 653,000 (k) TC&I Repair of Caroline Voyager .

500,000 (l) TC&I Dry-docking of Chief Mailo .
1,221,650 (m) Additional National Continental Shelf Claim formulation and negotiation Pursuant To UNCLOS ......................... 150,000 (n) Faichuk Post Office ............. 100,000 (o) Paperless Trail, Inc. ........... 300,000 (p) FSM Youth Summits – Guam ........ 35,000 (q) 2019 Constitutional Convention Election and Convening Expenses ............ 500,000 (r) Contribution to the Yap Subaccount of the FSM Trust Fund ...................... 450,000 (s) Chuuk High School Road Construction/Paving ........................ 200,000” Section 2.
Section 12 of Public Law No.

20-131, as 20 amended by Public Laws Nos.

20-159, 20-172, 21-10, 21-51 and 21- 21 70, is hereby further amended to read as follows: 22 23 24 25 “Section 12.

Allotment and Management of Funds and Lapse Dates.

(1) General provisions.

(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall 8 of 12 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-239 be allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the Financial Management Act of 1979.

(b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are used solely for the purposes specified in this act, and that no obligations are incurred in excess of the sums appropriated.

(2) Allottees.
The allottees of the funds appropriated by this act are as follows: (a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; (b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia; (d) Section 5 – the allottee of these funds shall be the Public Auditor of the Federated States of Micronesia; (e) Sections 6 through 9 - the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for the 9 of 12 C.B.
NO.
22-239 following subsections of sections 8 through 9 of this act: (i) Sections 8(1)(f) and 8(8)(h) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint Committee on Compact Review and Planning; (ii) Section 8(8)(c) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (iii) Section 8(9) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (iv) Section 8(12)(a) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (v) Section 8(12)(e) through (h) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the respective State Supreme Court; (vi) Section 8(12)(q) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint Committee on Compact Review and Planning; (vii) Section 9(1) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (viii) Section 9(3)(g) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of 10 of 12 C.B.
NO.
22-239 Kosrae; (ix) Section 9(3)(h) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (x) Sections 9(3)(i) and 9(4)(f) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xi) Section 9(3)(j) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (xii) Section 9(14) – the allottee of these funds shall be Telecommunication Regulation Authority; (xiii) Section 9(15)(a)(1) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (xiv) Section 9(15)(a)(2) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (xv) Section 9(15)(a)(3) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xvi) Section 9(15)(a)(4) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (xvii) Section 9(15)(d) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; 11 of 12 C.B.
NO.
22-239 (xviii) Section 9(15)(e)(1) and (3) and 9(15)(n) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xix) Section 9(15)(e)(2) – the allottee of these funds shall be the [Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia] Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xx) Section 8(12)(y)(3) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Chuuk; (xxi) Section 8(12)(y)(4) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Yap; (xxii) Section 9(15)(s) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk.
(3) Lapse date.

The authority of the allottees to obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of September 30, 2019; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the funds appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not lapse.” Section 3.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 22 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 23 becoming law without such approval.

24 25 Date: 9/8/22 Introduced by: /s/ Wesley W. Simina Wesley W. Simina 12 of 12