Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698831022637.pdf (Micronesia, Federated States of)
TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 2023 C.B.

NO.

23-09 A BILL FOR AN ACT To amend sections 1, 2, 8 and 9 of Public Law No.

22-153, as amended by Public Laws Nos.


22-169, 22-181 and 22-04, to appropriate supplemental funding in the amount of $2,950,000 from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, to support the operations of the Executive Branch and to appropriate supplemental funding for Subsidies, and Contributions; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 1 Section 1.

Section 1 of Public Law No.


22-153, as amended 2 by Public Law No.

22-169 and 22-181, is hereby further amended 3 to read as follows: 4 “Section 1.

Purpose.
Purpose.

The purpose of this act is to 5 appropriate the sum of $[105,306,162] 108,256,162 from the General 6 Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year 7 ending September 30, 2023, for the purpose of funding the 8 operations of all branches of the National Government of the 9 Federated States of Micronesia, its agencies, various programs; 10 Grants, Subsidies, and Contributions; and Capital and Human 11 Resources Development.
The National Government’s share of the 12 Amended Compact funds has been reduced to zero; EXCEPT THAT; the 13 National Government will retain the Compact Sector Grant amount 14 for COM-FSM and 10 percent of the Supplemental Education Grant 15 funds as is reflected in the budget for the Department of 16 Education.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 17 follows:” CBL 23-09/PC 23-05 C.B.

NO.

23-09 1 Section 2.

Section 2 of Public Law No.

22-153, as amended 2 by Public Laws Nos.


22-169, 22-181 and 22-204, is hereby further 3 amended to read as follows: 4 “Section 2.

Operating Expenses of the Executive Branch.


5 The sum of $[34,662,556] 35,112,556, or so much thereof as may 6 be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of 7 the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 8 September 30, 2023, for the purpose of funding the operations of 9 the Executive Branch of the National Government during the 10 fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be 11 apportioned as follows: 12 (1) Office of the President.
13 The sum of $[2,629,195] 3,079,195, or so much thereof as may be 14 necessary, for the operations of the Office of the President 15 during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall 16 be apportioned as follows: 17 Personnel ........................... ............. $ 894,582 18 Travel ............................. ....... [430,410] 630,000 19 Contractual Services...... ............... [1,120,000] 1,220,000 20 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 21 prior year obligation .............. ................ 176,203 22 Fixed Assets ................................ [8,000] 158,000 23 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
24 The sum of $7,350,488, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 25 for the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs during 2 of 23 C.B.

NO.

23-09 1 the fiscal year 2023.


The sum appropriated herein shall be 2 apportioned as follows: 3 Personnel ...................... .................. $ 2,745,152 4 Travel ........................... ................. 308,914 5 Contractual Services............. ................... 3,671,628 6 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 7 prior year obligations ....................... ...... 531,344 8 Fixed Assets ................................. ...... 93,450 9 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
10 The sum of $4,178,020, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 11 for the operations of the Department of Finance and 12 Administration during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 13 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 14 Personnel .............. ........................... $ 3,231,193 15 Travel ............................. ................ 294,227 16 Contractual Services........................ ....... 286,300 17 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 18 prior year obligations ...................... ....... 361,300 19 Fixed Assets ............................... ....... 5,000 20 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
21 The sum of $2,015,800, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 22 for the operations of the Department of Resources and 23 Development during the fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated 24 herein shall be apportioned as follows: 25 Personnel......................... ................. $ 1,374,565 3 of 23 C.B.

NO.
NO.

23-09 1 Travel ............................... ............. $ 213,397 2 Contractual Services......................... ....... 203,839 3 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 4 prior year obligations ........................ ..... 219,999 5 Fixed Assets ................................ ....... 4,000 6 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and 7 Infrastructure.
8 The sum of $3,869,704, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 9 for the operations of the Department of Transportation, 10 Communications and Infrastructure during the fiscal year 2023.
11 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 12 Personnel ........................... .............. $ 921,408 13 Travel .............................. ............. 252,331 14 Contractual Services, of which $207,922 shall 15 be used for the salary increase of MN and CV 16 Crews in accordance with the DTC&I Division 17 of Marine Transportation Salary Schedule 18 for contract crew............. ..................... 2,514,865 19 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 20 prior year obligations ...................... .... 116,100 21 Fixed Assets PROVIDED THAT, of the $65,000 appropriated 22 herein, $10,000 is to supplement the vehicle for the PMU 23 office ................................ ........... 65,000 24 (6) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
25 The sum of $1,498,647, or so much thereof as may be 4 of 23 C.B.

NO.

23-09 1 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Health 2 and Social Affairs during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 3 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 4 Personnel ........................ ................ $ 1,065,346 5 Travel ............................ ................. 107,863 6 Contractual Services........................ ..... 127,282 7 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 8 prior year obligations ...................... .... 198,156 9 Fixed Assets ................................ .... -0- 10 (7) Department of Education.
11 The sum of $1,086,178, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 12 for the operations of the Department of Education during the 13 fiscal year 2023.

Of the total amount of funds appropriated 14 herein, $366,570 shall be deemed to come from funds available 15 under the Supplemental Education Grant.
The sum appropriated 16 herein shall be apportioned as follows: 17 Personnel ............................ ........... $ 615,294 18 Travel .............................. ............. 171,810 19 Contractual Services................. ............. 231,226 20 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 21 prior year obligations ....................... ..... 67,848 22 Fixed Assets ................................. .... -0- 23 (8) Department of Justice.
24 The sum of $8,520,369, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 25 for the operations of the Department of Justice during the 5 of 23 C.B.

NO.

23-09 1 fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 2 apportioned as follows: 3 Personnel ........................ .............. $ 5,810,505 4 Travel ............................. ............. 369,743 5 Contractual Services, which may be used to 6 pay for prior year salaries of police officers 7 and other staff or for other prior 8 year contract obligations.......... .............. 994,679 9 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 10 prior year obligations ............ .............. 937,442 11 Fixed Assets ....................... ............. 408,000 12 (9) Department of Environment, Climate Change 13 and Emergency Management.
14 The sum of $1,135,935, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 15 for the operations of the Department of Environment, Climate 16 Change and Emergency Management during the fiscal year 2023.
17 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 18 Personnel ..................... ................. $ 751,914 19 Travel ............................... ............ 167,293 20 Contractual Services......................... .... 131,500 21 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 22 prior year obligations ..................... ...... 23 Fixed Assets ............................... ...... 52,228 33,000 24 (10) Office of the Public Defender.
25 The sum of $1,624,094, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 6 of 23 C.B.

NO.

23-09 1 for the operations of the Office of the Public Defender during 2 the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 3 apportioned as follows: 4 Personnel ......................... ............. $ 1,239,358 5 Travel .............................. ............. 115,542 6 Contractual Services......................... ..... 140,394 7 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 8 prior year obligations ..................... ...... 86,900 9 Fixed Assets ................................ .... 41,900 10 (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic 11 Preservation.
12 The sum of $328,138, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 13 the operations of the Office of National Archives, Culture and 14 Historic Preservation during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 15 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 16 Personnel .......................... .............. $ 263,253 17 Travel ............................... ............ 18 Contractual Services......................... .... 29,171 15,425 19 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 20 prior year obligations ..................... ...... 20,289 21 Fixed Assets ................................ .... -0- 22 (12) Office of Veteran’s Affairs.
23 The sum of $169,963, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 24 the operations of the Office Veteran’s Affairs during the fiscal 25 year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 7 of 23 C.B.

NO.
NO.

23-09 1 follows: 2 Personnel ........................... ............. $ 90,562 3 Travel ..................................... ..... 4 Contractual Services........................ ..... 11,401 50,000 5 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 6 prior year obligations ...................... ..... 18,000 7 Fixed Assets ................................ .... -0- 8 (13) Office of Personnel.
9 The sum of $256,025, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 10 the operations of the Office of Personnel during the fiscal year 11 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 12 follows: 13 Personnel ........................ ............... $ 226,025 14 Travel ............................... ............ 16,800 15 Contractual Services........................ ..... 1,700 16 OCE, which may be used to pay for outstanding 17 prior year obligations ...................... ..... 11,500 18 Fixed Assets ............................... ..... -0-“ 19 Section 3.

Section 8 of Public Law No.

22-153, as amended by 20 Public Laws Nos.


22-169, 22-181 and 22-204, is hereby further 21 amended to read as follows: 22 “Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.

23 The sum of $[28,353,161] 30,353,161, or so much thereof as may be 24 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 25 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 8 of 23 C.B.

NO.

23-09 1 September 30, 2023, for the following grants, subsidies and 2 contributions during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated 3 by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 4 5 (1) Office of the President.
(a) Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting 6 Development (AIBD) .................................. $ 4,500 7 8 (b) Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union ...... 800 (c) Pacific Island News Association ...... 350 9 (d) Asia Pacific Investment .............. 250 10 (e) Former Presidents’ Allowance ......... 50,000 11 (f) Joint Committee on Compact Review and 12 Planning (JCRP) .................................... 1,343,963 (g) Presidential Inauguration ............ 50,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
(a) Pacific Island Forum Secretariat ..... 57,000 (b) Secretariat of the 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 .................... 47,070 (h) SIS Program.......................... 10,000 (i) IOM Membership Fee ................... 600 (j) SPC Host Grant ....................... 20,000 25 (K) UN Multi-Country Office Lease ........ 30,960 9 of 23 C.B.

NO.
NO.

23-09 (l) Opening ceremony of Embassy in Tokyo $ 40,000 (m) Consultancy Services Contract ........ 32,000 (3) Department of Finance and Administration (a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee ............... 10,000 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial 6 Management Information System (FMIS).
................ 55,000 7 8 (c) PITTA – CTA .......................... 5,000 (d) ADB, IMF and Budget, Finance 9 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 (i) Tax Compliance Initiative ............ 25,000 (j) FSM Trust Fund Board ................. 50,000 (j) Finance Conference ................... 75,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
(a) Pacific Islands Development 19 Program (PIDP) ..................................... 15,000 (b) Pacific Asian Travel Association (PATA) 6,000 (c) United Nations Development Program (UNDP) 30,000 (d) Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) .. 6,800 (e) Western Forestry Leadership Coalition 530 (f) Matching to SPC Projects ............. 60,000 (g) Micronesian Challenge ................ 10,000 10 of 23 C.B.

NO.
23-09 (h) Micronesian Cruise Association ...... $ 2,500 (i) South Pacific Tourism Organization ... 8,000 (j) IRENA ............................... 250 (k) Micronesia Trade Commission .......... 30,000 (l) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1,000 (m) IFAD ................................. 500 (n) UNIDO Membership ..................... 1,000 (o) Micronesia Association of Sustainable 9 Agriculture ......................................... 50,000 10 (p) Micronesia Island Forum ............. 232,000 11 (q) Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund .. 100,000 12 (r) International Coconut Community (annual 13 and prior years fees) ............................... 18,000 (s) 2nd FSM Expo (Kosrae) ................ 100,000 (t) Trade Policy Review ................. 35,000 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) UNFPA ................................ 3,000 (b) WHO .................................. 4,790 (c) PIHOA ............................... 20,000 (d) Association of Territorial Health ... 4,000 (e) Nursing and Medical Licensing ....... 60,000 (f) FSM Red Cross ....................... 70,000 (g) UNICEF (Vaccine & TB Drugs) ......... 50,000 24 (h) UN/FSM Women (CEDAW) ................ 1,000 25 (i) Drug Quality Testing Project.

....... 3,000 11 of 23 C.B.

NO.


23-09 (6) Department of Education.
(a) Aid to Non-Public Schools .......... $ 1,000,000 (b) Aid to CMI Students ................. 30,000 (c) Aid to PCC Students .................. 50,000 (d) National Scholarship ................. 3,000,000 (e) National Close-Up .................... 75,000 (f) Merit Scholarship .................... 275,000 (g) Aid to FSM Students in Japan ......... 100,000 (h) Aid to FSM Students in China ......... 50,000 (i) Aid to FSM Students in Fiji .......... 50,000 (j) Caroline College & Pastoral Institute.
200,000 (k) Faithwalk Christian College ......... .

200,000 (l) Xavier High School – Chuuk ........... 75,000 (m) Yap Catholic High School ............. 75,000 (7) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.
(a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity .......... 6,075 (b) International Telecommunication Union 25,867 (c) ICAO ................................. 45,075 (d) FSM Capital Energy ................... 705,145 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission ...... 25,000 (f) Fuel and Provisions for Caroline Voyager and Navigator ........................... 1,345,830 (g) FSM National Government Computer Network Bandwidth Contract.................. 181,920 12 of 23 C.B.

NO.
NO.

23-09 (h) Arrears due to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 2018 .............. ....... $ 20,000 (i) ICAO arrears ................. ....... 174,000 (8) Department of Justice.

(a) States Joint Law Enforcement: Kosrae.
125,000 (b) States Joint Law Enforcement: Pohnpei 250,000 (c) States Joint Law Enforcement: Chuuk, of which $75,000 shall be used for Weno Municipal Police ........................................ 300,000 (d) States Joint Law Enforcement: Yap .... 125,000 (e) Police Academy ....................... 200,000 (f) Fuel Subsidy ......................... 550,000 (g) WIPO ................................. -0- (h) Interpol-Membership & Activities ..... 15,000 15 (i) Ammunitions for side arm & long rifles 25,000 (j) Organizations for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) ......................... 7,962 (k) Comprehensive Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Organization (CTBT) ............................. 13,708 (l) Police fuel subsidy: Kosrae .......... 10,000 (m) Police fuel subsidy: Yap ............. 10,000 (9) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) UNEP ................................. (b) UNFCCC ............................... 835 325 13 of 23 C.B.
NO.
23-09 (c) UNCCD ............................... $ 195 (d) SPREP Membership ..................... 10,768 (e) Waigani Convention ................... 1,190 (f) SPREP-Noumea Convention .............. 1,764 (g) Earth Day Activities .................. 15,000 (h) 7th Bi-Annual Environment Conference .. 20,000 (i) Basel Convention ..................... (j) Kyoto Protocol ....................... 197 484 (k) WMO Membership ....................... 15,000 (l) Disaster Assistance Emergency Relief Fund (DAEF)- Matching ................... 200,000 (m) Disaster Relief Fund ................. 100,000 13 (n) Stockholm Convention Membership ...... 550 14 (o) COP27 Travel ......................... 100,000 (10) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation (a) UNESCO ............................... 4,000 (b) NCSHPO ............................... 2,760 (c) PARBICA .............................. (d) PIALA ................................ (e) WHC .................................. (f) Library Fee .......................... 100 100 54 50 (11) Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (a) Staff Upgrade ........................ 25,000 (b) IPU Annual Dues ...................... 12,500 14 of 23 C.B.
NO.

23-09 (c) COFA Alliance National Network (CANN).$ 25,000 (d) Compact Historical Project ........... 25,000 (e) Opening Ceremony of Embassy in Tokyo.. ..... ................................ 100,000 (f) IPU ................................. 100,000 (12) Other Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.

(a) COM board meeting .................. .
5,000 (b) COM-FSM Treaty Obligation ............ 25,000 (c) FSM Social Security Administration ...................... 3,000,000 (d) State Judiciaries: Kosrae ........... 75,000 (e) State Judiciaries: Pohnpei ........... 100,000 (f) State Judiciaries: Chuuk ............. 170,000 (g) State Judiciaries: Yap ............... 75,000 (h) National Law Day ..................... 100,000 (i) Micronesian Legal Services Corporation (MLSC) .............................. 250,000 (j) NORMA – Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) .. 63,000 (k) NORMA – WCPFC Tuna Commission Membership Fee.......... .................................. 434,201 21 (l) PNA Membership Fee ................... 10,000 22 23 24 25 (m) Independence Day Activities .......... 50,000 (n) MLFC Loan Payment .................... 260,000 (o) Single Audit Fee .................... 460,000 (p) Staff Housing, including 100,000 for 15 of 23 C.B.
NO.
23-09 the Office of Personnel ...................... $ 850,000 (q) Recruitment and Repatriation ......... 223,218 (r) Caroline Air Subsidy for insurance, operation and fuel.... ......................... 255,000 (s) President’s Day ...................... -0- (t) General Election (2023) .............. 400,000 (u) Legal and Advocacy Services in Washington D.C. (A&P) .......... ............... 2,000,000 (v) DOFA – Prior year obligations ....... 7,000 (w) Legal fees owed to INS/Bargain Center 5,390 (x) Legal fees owed to Genesis .......... 5,244 (y) Hosting of 2023 Oceania Customs Organization’s Annual conference .............. 47,000 (z) National election prior year obligation 5,760 (aa) Supplement for MCO Office space .... 48,031 (bb) FAS Organization in Guam ............ 50,000 (cc) PII Settlement ...................... 6,000,000 (dd) FSM National Government salary increases pursuant to Public Law No.
22-170... ........... -0- (ee) Presidential Inauguration ........... 100,000 (ff) Litigation Cases in Yap and in Chuuk 100,000 (gg) 2023 Special Election ............... 400,000 (hh) SDP Update .......................... 700,000 (ii) Settlement of Fisheries Case ........ 500,000 (jj) Third Party Assistance – Compact .... 200,000” 16 of 23 C.B.

NO.

23-09 1 Section 4.

Section 9 of Public Law No.

22-153, as amended by 2 Public Laws Nos.


22-169 and 22-181, is hereby further amended to 3 read as follows: 4 “Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.

5 The sum of $[23,002,475] 23,502,475, or so much thereof as may be 6 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 7 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 8 September 30, 2023, for the following capital improvements, 9 development programs, and projects and human resources 10 development.
Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, 11 $1,534,539 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the 12 Supplemental Education Grant and $1,000,000 shall be deemed to 13 come from funds available under the Compact Sector Grants.

The 14 sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 15 16 (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.
(a) College of Micronesia–FSM ..... $ 4,000,000 17 (b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime Institute (FMI) .............................. 965,735 (c) College of Micronesia-FSM SEG Funding .................................. 878,978 (d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ........ 500,000 (e) COM-Public Health initiative .. 488,798 (f) Assistance to boarding students, COM-FSM main campus Pohnpei (i) Chuukese students ......... 100,000 17 of 23 C.B.
NO.
23-09 (ii) Yapese students .......... $ 75,000 (iii) Kosraen students .......... 50,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs (a) Acting Pay: UN Mission ......... 98,394 (b) Acting Pay: Fiji ............... 19,395 (c) Acting Pay: D.C. Embassy ....... 16,764 (d) Acting Pay: Guam .............. 19,000 (3) Department of Finance and Administration (a) FSM Warehouse Lease and Maintenance -0- (b) PCD Awareness and Training ...... 35,000 (c) Support to Municipal Government Financial Management Improvement ............. 50,000 (d) Tax Reform Commission ........... 100,000 (e) Housing for local staff assigned to financial organizations for short term training (IMF, WB, ADB, GCF) ......................... 72,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development (a) R&D SNLC ......................... 75,000 (b) FSM Chamber of Commerce .......... 50,000 (c) Chamber of Commerce: Kosrae ...... 20,000 (d) Chamber of Commerce: Pohnpei ..... 30,000 (e) Chamber of Commerce: Chuuk ....... 30,000 (f) Chamber of Commerce: Yap ......... 20,000 (g) Conservation Society: Kosrae ..... 25,000 (h) Conservation Society: Pohnpei .... 40,000 18 of 23 C.B.
NO.
23-09 (i) Conservation Society: Chuuk .... $ 40,000 (j) Conservation Society: Yap ........ 25,000 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure (a) Operation and Dry-Docking expenses and arrears ................... 2,300,000 (b) FSM National Government Facility Improvements and Renovations ................. 115,685 (c) FSM National Government Computer Network ..................................... 100,000 (6) Department of Justice (a) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, Campaign, and Investigation ................... 125,000 (b) Victim Shelter and Services ..... 125,000 (c) Boat Maintenance ................ 200,000 (d) DOJ Satellite Phone Billing ..... 10,000 (7) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) National & State Table Top Exercise 30,000 (b) Outer Island Trip Assessment – Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management .... 80,000 (c) National Joint Platform for Environment & Risk Resilience ................ 40,000 (d) International Day for Disaster Reduction .................................... 12,000 19 of 23 C.B.
NO.
23-09 (e) Disaster Risk Management Conference...... ............................ $ 40,000 (8) National Election Commission Office (a) Voter ID Card and New Voter Registration Project ......................... 50,000 (9) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) Medical Specialist Team .......... 120,000 (b) MOE-BHWP Med ..................... 22,200 (c) Electronic Record System ......... 35,000 (d) Youth in Sports ................. 50,000 (e) Hispathology and diagnostic improvement ................................. 16,000 (f) Implementation, FSM Pharmaceutical Act ........................................ 24,010 (g) Competent Authority, compliance process for fisheries exportation ........... 115,990 (h) medical professional recruitment 33,500 (10) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ........ 655,561 (b) School Accreditation ............. (c) Teacher Certification Project .... -0- -0- (d) Vernacular Language Arts (VLA) Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks Training .. 75,170 (e) CTE Teacher Training ............. 56,910 (11) NORMA 20 of 23 C.B.
NO.

23-09 (a) Hosting WPCFC, TTC, & SC ........ $ 10,000 (b) Internship for students in the area of fisheries management .................. 5,000 (c) T3 Monitoring .................... 150,000 (d) Commemorate World Tuna Day ...... 70,000 (12) Other Capital and Human Resources Development (a) Donor Roundtable ............... .
100,000 (b) Chuuk State Supreme Court parking lot, fencing, and maintenance... ............. 200,000 (c) National Voter Register........... 64,000 (d) TC&I Utwe Water project settlement 260,000 (e) Diplomatic Mission Geneva ....... 300,000 (f) FSM ConCon Public Education & Awareness.................................... 200,000 (g) Capitol road improvement Nanpohnmal to Sekere......................... 400,000 (h) Road improvement and heavy equipment, Yap ............................ 100,000 (i) Road improvement, Weno, Chuuk ... 100,000 (j) State subsidies: (i) Generator Parts, Yap state, YSPSC ............................ 250,000 (ii) Fuel Chuuk state, CPUC .... 300,000 (iii) Power line extension, Pohnpei state, PUC ........................... 100,000 21 of 23 C.B.
NO.
23-09 (iv) Fuel Kosrae state, KPUA ................................ $ -0- (k) Chuuk Narik Mataw ship............ 100,000 (l) Pohnpei Lady Pohnpei ship......... 117,385 (m) Lady Minto ship................... 95,000 (n) PMA subsidy....................... 100,000 (o) Open market Pohnpei causeway 350,000 (p) Case tracking system (CTS)........ 25,000 (q) H2 Habilmohol – fuel subsidy ..... 100,000 (r) Kosrae Solar Project ............. 200,000 (s) Construction of a postal service building in Tonoas, Chuuk ................... 50,000 (t) Establish Diplomatic Mission in Australia ........................ 500,000 (u) Purchase property in Honolulu for Hawaii FSM Consulate Office ................. 5,000,000 (v) Airport Subsidy: Kosrae State .... 250,000 (w) Airport Subsidy: Pohnpei State ... 250,000 (x) Airport Subsidy: Chuuk State ..... 250,000 (y) Airport Subsidy for Outer Islands: Yap State ................................... 250,000 (z) Repair and refurbishment of HI and Chief Mailo ................................. 500,000 (aa) Renovation of official Residence Facilities in Palikir (President, 22 of 23 C.B.
NO.

23-09 1 2 VP & Chief Justice) ........................ $ 500,000” Section 5.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 3 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 4 becoming law without such approval.

5 6 Date: 5/19/23 Introduced by: /s/ Quincy Lawrence Quincy Lawrence (by request) 23 of 23