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NINTH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FOURTH REGULAR SESSION, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO.

9-240, C.D.1, C.D.2 PUBLIC LAW NO.

9-118 AN ACT To further amend Public Law No.

9-030, as amended, by amending section 12 to further apportion certain funds appropriated therein and by further amending section 16, as amended by Public Laws Nos.

9-046 and 9-091, to designate a new allottee for certain of said funds, and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: Section 1.

Section 12 of Public Law No.

9-030 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 12.

Compact section 221(b) programs.


The sum of $489,900, 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, 1996, for Compact section 221(b) programs and projects of the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia during fiscal year 1996.
Of the funds appropriated under this section, $452,369 shall be deemed to come from funds available under section 221(b) of the Compact of Free Association.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: (1) Health Services programs: (a) Professional support services ................. $ 18,800 (b) Health planning & workforce development ............................................................................. -0- (c) Health and Vital statistics ....................... 5,000 (d) Tuberculosis prevention and control ...... 15,000 (e) Leprosy prevention and control ................ 5,000 (f) Leptospirosis control program ................ 5,500 (g) Chronic disease prevention and control .
10,000 (h) Family health services ................................ -0- (i) Health education ........................................ $ 3,000 (j) Immunization services ............................... 22,300 (k) MCH/CSHCN/continuing nursing education programs (i) Faichuk Community Health Center ...... 64,000 (ii) Yap Outer Island Community Health Centers .......................................................................... 50,000 (iii) FSM nursing students at College of the Marshall Islands .............................................. 20,000 1 of 5 (l) Mental health services ................................ 14,000 (m) Substance abuse prevention and treatment ................................................................................... 14,000 (n) AIDS prevention and control ...................... 14,000 (o) Child abuse and neglect program ............. 5,000 (p) Tobacco prevention and control ............... 15,000 (q) FSM food protection, inspection and certification ........................................................................ 33,400 (r) Nutrition services ......................................... 5,000 (s) National women's interest program ......... 17,300 (2) Education programs: (a) FSM National standardized testing program .................................................................................... 20,000 (b) Youth NCD/HIV awareness & prevention workshop ............................................................... -0- (c) Development of a comprehensive national system on vocational education ........................................... $ -0- (d) Development disabilities planning council ........................................................................................ -0- (e) FSM College admission test counseling program ................................................................ 18,600 (f) Youth activities program .......................... 20,000 (g) FSM youth cultural training program ..... 60,000 (h) FSM National Close-Up Program ............. 35,000" Section 2.
Section 16 of Public Law No.

9-030, as amended by Public Laws Nos.

9-046 and 9-091, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "Section 16.

Allotment and management of funds and lapse date.
All funds appropriated by this act shall be allotted, managed, administered, and accounted for in accordance with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the Financial Management Act of 1979; PROVIDED, however, that the allottees for the funds appropriated under subsections (2)(l)(i), (2)(l)(ii) and (2)(l)(iv) of section 11 of this act shall be the Governors of the respective States and the allottee for the funds appropriated under subsection (2)(l)(iii) of section 11 of this act shall be the Director of Public Safety for the State of Chuuk and that all funds appropriated under subsection (2)(l) of section 11 of this act shall not be disbursed from the General Fund to the allottees unless the President certifies that the State 2 of 5 involved has entered into a joint law enforcement agreement for the period of October 1, 1995, to September 30, 1996, with the National Government pursuant to chapter 12 of title 12 of the Code of the Federated States of Micronesia; PROVIDED FURTHER, that all funds appropriated to Chuuk State under subsection (3) of section 10 of this act shall be retained in the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia until a scholarship recipient is identified to the President or the President's designee, at which time scholarship funds in the amount of the scholarship award shall be disbursed directly to the appropriate educational institution in the form of a two-party check payable to both the scholarship recipient and the educational institution he or she is attending; PROVIDED FURTHER, that the allottees for the funds appropriated under subsection (2)(o) of section (11) of this act shall be the Chief Justices of the respective States; PROVIDED FURTHER, that the allottee of the funds appropriated under subsection (1)(k)(i) shall be the Mayor of Udot Municipality; PROVIDED FURTHER, that the allottee of the funds appropriated under subsection (1)(k)(ii) of section 12 of this act shall be the Governor of the State of Yap; and PROVIDED FURTHER, that the allottee of the funds appropriated under subsection (1) of section 13 of this act shall be the Director of the Office of Administrative Services.
Each allottee shall be responsible for ensuring that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are used solely for the purpose specified in this act, and that no obligations are incurred in excess of the sum appropriated.
The authority of the allottees to obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of September 30, 1996; PROVIDED, however, that the authority of the allottees to obligate funds appropriated by sections 7, 9, 10, 11(2)(s), and 13 shall not lapse, the authority of the allottee to obligate funds appropriated by subsection (1)(e) of section 2 of this act shall lapse as of December 31, 1996, and the authority of the allottees to obligate funds appropriated by subsection (2)(aa) of section 11 and subsection (1)(k) of section 12 of this act shall lapse as of September 30, 1998.
It shall be further provided that the authority of the allottee of the funds appropriated by subsection (1)(a)(v) of section 1 of this act shall lapse as of September 30, 1998."

Section 3.

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

December 10 , 1996 3 of 5 for /s/ Jacob Nena Bailey Olter President Federated States of Micronesia 4 of 5