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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6819 
To address the growing unreimbursed economic impact costs on communities 
that receive and host Compact migrants from the Freely Associated 
States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 22, 2022 
Mr. SAN NICOLAS (for himself, Mr. CASE, and Mr. KAHELE) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
To address the growing unreimbursed economic impact costs 
on communities that receive and host Compact migrants 
from the Freely Associated States, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Compact of Free Asso-
ciation Host Communities Support Act’’. 
SEC. 2. WAIVER OF MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT. 
A Federal department, agency, independent agency, 
office, or instrumentality may waive any requirement for 
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local matching funds (including in-kind contributions) oth-
erwise required to be provided by an affected jurisdiction 
for any Federal grant requiring matching funds. 
SEC. 3. RECONCILIATION OF UNREIMBURSED IMPACT EX-
PENSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—To address previously accrued 
and unreimbursed impact expenses, at the request of the 
Governor of an affected jurisdiction, the President may 
reduce, release, or waive all or part of amounts owed by 
the Government of an affected jurisdiction (or the govern-
ment’s autonomous agencies or instrumentalities) to any 
department, agency, independent agency, office, or instru-
mentality of the United States. 
(b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.— 
(1) SUBSTANTIATION OF IMPACT COSTS.—Not 
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Governor of each affected jurisdic-
tion shall submit to the Secretary a report, prepared 
in consultation with an independent accounting firm, 
substantiating unreimbursed economic impacts to 
the affected jurisdiction of receiving compact mi-
grants from 2004 through 2021. Upon request of 
the Secretary, the Governor of the affected jurisdic-
tion shall submit to the Secretary copies of all docu-
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ments upon which the report submitted by that Gov-
ernor was based. 
(2) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW AND COMMENT.— 
Any reduction, release, or waiver under this Act 
shall not take effect until 60 days after the Presi-
dent notifies Congress of the President’s intent to 
approve a request of the Governor of each affected 
jurisdiction. In exercising his authority under this 
section and in determining whether to give final ap-
proval to a request, the President shall take into 
consideration comments the President may receive 
after Congressional review. 
(c) ANNUAL LIMIT.—The President may reduce, re-
lease, or waive, under subsection (a), amounts totaling, in 
the aggregate, not more than $100,000,000 annually. 
SEC. 4. SUNSET. 
This authority of the Secretary under sections 2 and 
3 shall terminate on that date that the Secretary certifies 
that all the unreimbursed economic impact costs to af-
fected jurisdictions have been reconciled and repaid to 
those affected jurisdictions. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act, the following definitions 
apply: 
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(1) AFFECTED JURISDICTION.—The term ‘‘af-
fected jurisdiction’’ means any State, territory, or 
possession of the United States that receives and 
hosts a Compact migrant. 
(2) COMPACT MIGRANT.—The term ‘‘compact 
migrant’’ means a person, or their children under 
the age of 18, admitted or resident pursuant to sec-
tion 141 of the U.S.–RMI or U.S.–FSM Compact, 
or section 141 of the Palau Compact who, as of a 
date referenced in the most recently published enu-
meration is a resident of an affected jurisdiction. As 
used in this subsection, the term ‘‘resident’’ shall be 
a person who has a ‘residence,’ as that term is de-
fined in section 101(a)(33) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
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