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

NO.

22-248 A BILL FOR AN ACT To further amend sections 9 and 12 of Public Law No.

21-185, as amended by Public Laws Nos.

21-210, 21-221, 21-238, 22-01, 22-30, 22-41 and 22-137, to change the use and allottee of certain 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.


21-185, as amended by 2 Public Laws Nos.

21-210, 21-221 21-238, 22-01, 22-30, 22-41, and 3 22-137, is hereby further amended to read as follows: “Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.


The sum of $16,473,088 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, 2021, for the following capital improvements, development programs, and projects and human resources development.
Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, $1,246,022 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.
(a) College of Micronesia–FSM ..... $ 3,800,000 (b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime CBL 22-259 C.B.

NO.
22-248 Institute (FMI) .......................... $ 875,611 (c) College of Micronesia-FSM SEG Funding ............................... 689,948 (d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ......... 285,000 (e) COM-FSM Building Infrastructure Project ................................... -0- (2) Department of Finance and Administration (a) FSM Warehouse Lease and Maintenance 40,000 (b) PCD Awareness and Training ..... -0- (c) Tax Reform Commission .......... 100,000 (3) Department of Resources and Development (a) R&D SNLC ........................ -0- (b) Enhancing Fisheries: Kosrae ..... 100,000 (c) Enhancing Fisheries: Pohnpei .... 100,000 (d) Enhancing Fisheries: Chuuk ...... 100,000 (e) Enhancing Fisheries: Yap ........ (f) R&D Conference .................. (g) Foreign Investment Data Management System .......................... (h) Expo 2020 Dubai UAE ............. -0- -0- -0- -0- (i) Intellectual Property Rights Regime 117,000 (j) Development of Coastal Fisheries Policy for FSM ............................. 150,000 (k) Development & Operation Framework to Implement the National 2 of 14 C.B.
NO.
22-248 Seabed Mining Act .......................... 200,000 (l) Tourism Conference ............. $ -0- (m) Tourism Budget & Planning with the States ............................ (n) Tourism Public Awareness ........ (o) Little Fire Ants (Eradication, -0- -0- Control, & Prevention) ..................... 166,440 (p) State Strategic Action Plan for the FSM ................................ 60,990 (q) Renewable Energy Development Plan -0- (r) National Social Indicators Survey 661,713 (s) Localization of Sustainable Development Goals in the FSM ............... 320,812 (t) FSM Association of Chamber of Commerce/Support to COC .................... 67,000 (u) National Coastal Fisheries Monitoring Team ............................ (v) Computing Facility Upgrade ...... (w) Strengthening National/Private Sector Organizations in the FSM ............ (x) 2020 CPH ........................ -0- -0- -0- -0- (y) Chamber of Commerce: Chuuk State [25,000] -0- (z) Chamber of Commerce: Pohnpei State 25,000 (aa) Chamber of Commerce: Kosrae State 25,000 (bb) Chamber of Commerce: Yap State .
25,000 3 of 14 C.B.

NO.
22-248 (4) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure (a) Operation and Dry-Docking of Caroline Voyager and Navigator .......... $ 1,000,000 (b) FSM National Government Computer Network .................................... 277,420 (c) AIP Matching Fund ............... -0- (d) Relocation of power and telephone lines in PNI ............................... -0- (e) FSM National Government Facility Improvements and Renovations ............... 592,715 (f) Outer Island Airport ............ (g) New Warehouse Building .......... (h) Airport Needs for Chuuk [200,000] (i) MV Hapilmohol-1 parts, repair -0- -0- -0- of engine, and replacement ................. 350,000 (j) Operation of and associated expenses related to Hapilmohol 2 ........... 119,014 (5) Department of Justice (a) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, Campaign, and Investigation ................. 125,000 (b) Victim Shelter and Services ..... 100,000 (c) Boat Maintenance ................ 150,000 (d) Slipping of the FSS Independence -0- (e) DOJ Satellite Phone Billing ..... 10,000 4 of 14 C.B.
NO.
22-248 (f) HT Annual Conference ........... $ 50,000 (g) Victim Shelter in Chuuk ......... 50,000 (h) Build Anti-Trafficking Shelters in Pohnpei, Yap, and Kosrae ................ 150,000 (i) Purchase four patrol boats ...... -0- (j) COVID-19 Law Enforcement & Emergency Response ......................... 375,033 (6) 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 .............. -0- (d) International Day for Disaster Reduction ................................ -0- (e) Training & Maintenance for Radio Communications ............................. -0- (f) Fostering Sustainable Solid Waste Management Systems in FSM .................. 165,000 (g) Fourth Disaster Risk Management Environment Conference ..................... -0- (h) FY 2020 Disaster Assistance Emergency Relief Fund (DAEF)- Matching ............... 200,000 5 of 14 C.B.
NO.
22-248 (7) National Election Commission Office (a) Voter ID Card and New Voter Registration Project ...................... $ 50,000 (8) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) MOE-BHWP Med ............... 22,200 (b) Electronic Record System ... 35,000 (c) Rheumatic Heart Program .... 120,000 (d) Medical Specialist Team .... 195,000 (e) National Women Council ..... -0- (f) Vector Surveillance & Control Program ............................ 50,000 (g) Histopathology Laboratory .. (h) FSM Food Safety Laboratory .
-0- -0- (i) Pathologist ................ 105,000 (j) Food/Water Testing Lab ..... -0- (k) Youth in Sports ............ 50,000 (l) Doctors: Foundation Project -0- (m) Implementing IHR Core Capacity to Improve Health Security ................. 50,000 (n) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) -0- (o) Stranded citizens, quarantine facility, and COVID-19 related activities .. 200,000 (9) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ... 565,085 (b) School Accreditation ........ 250,000 6 of 14 C.B.
NO.

22-248 (c) Teacher Certification Project $168,000 (d) Literacy Intervention for FSM Leaders of Tomorrow (LIFT) .................. -0- (e) Development of Science Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) .................... (f) Development Quality ......... -0- -0- (g) NMCT Administration ......... -0- (h) Assessment & Research to revive NMCT ................................. 112,740 (10) NORMA (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day 2021 40,000 (b) FFC Meetings.
.................... -0- (c) Hosting WPCFC, TTC, & SC ......... 10,000 (d) Internship for students in the area of fisheries management ................ 5,000 (e) T3 Monitoring .................... 100,000 (11) Other Capital and Human Resources Development (a) Capital Improvement Projects .... -0- (b) Design and Construction of Veterans Memorial .......................... (c) Conservation Society ............ (d) 2020 Constitutional Convention .
(e) Purchase/down payment for FSM -0- -0- -0- Embassy in Japan ........................... -0- (f) Chuuk State Purchase of a Field 7 of 14 C.B.

NO.
22-248 Trip vessel ............................... $ -0- (g) Pohnpei State Purchase of Field Trip Vessel and Operation ................. (h) Enhancing Tourism ............... (i) Purchase and delivery of an -0- -0- outer island airplane ...................... -0- (j) Assistance to FSM residents stranded in Hawaii & Guam due to COVID-19, of which $33,000 shall be used to pay outstanding debts owed to the Santa Fe Hotel ........... 100,000 (k) Assistance to FSM students unable to return home due to COVID-19 ...... -0- (l) Payment to University of Guam for FSM students room & board due to COVID-19 .. -0- (m) Contribution to the Guam Consulate for COVID-19 response activities ........... -0- (n) Renovations to the Congress Chamber ......................... 120,000 (o) Funding for Portland Consulate Office and associated security system requirements 631,367 (p) Assistance to COVID-19 Unfunded Programs in Chuuk .......................... 150,000 (q) Assistance to COVID-19 Unfunded Programs in Yap ............................ 120,000 (r) Assistance to COVID-19 Unfunded 8 of 14 C.B.
NO.
22-248 Programs in Kosrae ........................ $ 80,000 (s) Boat purchase for Moch .......... 800,000 (t) Department of Foreign Affairs Home Office Renovation ..................... 185,000 (u) Pacific Missionary Aviation Service 100,000 (v) Contribution to the family of Deceased Senator ........................... 30,000 (w) Chuuk Inauguration .............. 70,000 (x) Chuuk Low-Income Household Assistance Program; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that eligibility is limited to recipients who have not previously received any prior assistance; PROVIDED, FURTHER, that allottee shall establish guidelines to ensure that such eligibility criteria are set forth and implemented ................................ $225,000“ Section 2.
Section 12 of Public Law No.

21-185, as amended 17 by Public Laws Nos.

21-210, 21-221, 21-238, 22-01, 22-41, and 22- 18 137, is hereby further amended to read as follows: “Section 12.

Allotment and Management of Funds and Lapse Dates.

(1) General provisions.

(a) 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.
9 of 14 C.B.

NO.

22-248 (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 following subsections of sections 8 through 9 of this act: (i) Sections 8(1)(f) and 8(13)(q) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint 10 of 14 C.B.
NO.
22-248 Committee on Compact Review and Planning; (ii) Section 8(8)(a) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (iii) Section 8(8)(b) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (iv) Section 8(8)(c) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (v) Section 8(8)(d) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (vi) Section 8(11) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Public Auditor of the Federated States of Micronesia; (vii) Sections 8(12) and 9(11)(v) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (viii) Section 8(13)(a) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (ix) Section 8(13)(d) through (g) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the respective State Supreme Court; (x) Section 8(13)(h) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia; (xi) Section 8(13)(t) - the allottee of 11 of 14 C.B.
NO.
22-248 these funds shall be the National Olympic Committee; (xii) Section 8(13)(u) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Principal of Saint Cecilia Catholic School; (xiiii) Section 9(1) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (xiv) Section 9(3)(b) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (xv) Section 9(3)(c) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (xvi) Sections 9(3)(d) and 9(11)(w) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xvii) Section 9(3)(e) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (xviii) Section 9(4)(i) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure; (xix) Sections 9(11)(b), 9(11)(n) and 9(11)(v) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (xx) Section 9(11)(d) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Constitutional 12 of 14 C.B.
NO.
22-248 Convention; (xxi) Section 9(11)(f) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xxii) Section 9(11)(g) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure; (xxiii) Section 8(13)(r) the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Yap; (xxiv) Section 9(3)(y) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xxv) Section 9(3)(z) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (xxvi) Section 9(3)(aa) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (xxvii) Section 9(3)(bb) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (xxviii) Section 9(11)(p) and (s) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Chuuk; (xxix) Section 9(11)(q) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Yap; (xxx) Section 9(11)(r) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Kosrae; (xxxi) Section 9(3)(t) – the allottee of these 13 of 14 C.B.
NO.

22-248 funds shall be the President of the FSM Association of Chamber of Commerce; and (xxxii) Section 9(4)(h) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Chuuk (xxxiii) Section 9(4)(j) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Yap (xxxiv) Section 9(11)(x) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the State of Chuuk.” 10 Section 3.
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.

13 14 Date: 9/16/22 Introduced by: /s/ Wesley W. Simina Wesley W. Simina of 14