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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6015 
To require the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Depart-
ment of Commerce to publish certain economic data regarding territories 
and Freely Associated States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 30, 2010 
Ms. BORDALLO
(for herself, Mr. BROWN
of South Carolina, Mr. 
FALEOMAVAEGA, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. PIERLUISI, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. 
AL GREEN of Texas, Ms. HIRONO, and Mr. HONDA) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 
and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To require the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis 
of the Department of Commerce to publish certain eco-
nomic data regarding territories and Freely Associated 
States, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DATA RE-
GARDING TERRITORIES AND FREELY ASSOCI-
ATED STATES. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—The Director of the Bureau of 
Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce shall 
publish an annual report on the gross domestic product 
of the following: 
(1) TERRITORIES.—American Samoa, Guam, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Is-
lands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the 
United States Virgin Islands. 
(2) FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES.—Republic of 
the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micro-
nesia, and the Republic of Palau. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The requirements of sub-
section (a) shall take effect on the day that is 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO IMMIGRATION PRO-
VISIONS APPLICABLE TO GUAM AND NORTH-
ERN MARIANA ISLANDS. 
(a) WAIVER OF NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS FOR NON-
IMMIGRANT
WORKERS
DURING
TRANSITION.—Section 
6(b) of the Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘A Joint Resolution 
to approve the ‘Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with 
the United States of America’, and for other purposes’’, 
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approved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 1806(e)), as added 
by section 702 of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act 
of 2008 (Public Law 110–229; 122 Stat. 854), is amended 
by inserting after the second sentence the following: ‘‘In 
any case in which the Secretary of Labor implements an 
extension of the provisions of subsection (d) pursuant to 
subsection (d)(5), the provisions of this subsection shall 
be extended for the same period.’’. 
(b) GUAM AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS VISA 
WAIVER PROGRAM.—Section 702 of the Consolidated 
Natural Resources Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–229; 122 
Stat. 854) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(l) GUAM AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS VISA 
WAIVER ALTERNATIVE.—In a case in which the regula-
tions promulgated under section 212(l)(3) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(l)), as amended 
by subsection (b)(3), do not include a listing of any coun-
try pursuant to section 212(l)(3)(A) of such Act, the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security shall provide for an alter-
native procedure for the provision of a benefit similar to 
that described in section 212(l)(1) of such Act to nationals 
from any country from which the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands has received a significant eco-
nomic benefit from the number of visitors for pleasure 
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