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(A) the opportunities to expand the recruitment of 
construction workers in the United States, including Guam, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, to support the realignment of mili-
tary installations and the relocation of military personnel 
on Guam, consistent with the requirements of paragraph 
(6) of section 2824(c) of the Military Construction 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, as added by sub-
section (a); 
(B) the ability of labor markets to support the Guam 
realignment; 
(C) the sufficiency of efforts to recruit United States 
construction workers; and 
(D) The costs to the United States for recruitment 
plans required by such paragraph (6) and a proposed 
method to cover such costs. 
(3) COVERED
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES.—The reports 
required by this subsection shall be submitted to the congres-
sional defense committees, the Committee on Education and 
Labor of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate. 
SEC. 2835. INTERAGENCY COORDINATION GROUP OF INSPECTORS 
GENERAL FOR GUAM REALIGNMENT. 
(a) INTERAGENCY
COORDINATION
GROUP.—There is hereby 
established the Interagency Coordination Group of Inspectors Gen-
eral for Guam Realignment (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Interagency Coordination Group’’)— 
(1) to provide for the objective conduct and supervision 
of audits and investigations relating to the programs and oper-
ations funded with amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available for military construction on Guam in connection with 
the realignment of military installations and the relocation 
of military personnel on Guam; and 
(2) to provide for coordination of, and recommendations 
on, policies designed— 
(A) to promote economic efficiency and effectiveness 
in the administration of the programs and operations 
described in paragraph (1); and 
(B) to prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse 
in such programs and operations. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) CHAIRPERSON.—The Inspector General of the Depart-
ment of Defense shall serve as chairperson of the Interagency 
Coordination Group. 
(2) ADDITIONAL
MEMBERS.—Additional members of the 
Interagency Coordination Group shall include the Inspector 
General of the Department of Interior and the Inspector Gen-
eral of such other Federal agencies as the chairperson considers 
appropriate to carry out the duties of the Interagency Coordina-
tion Group. 
(c) DUTIES.— 
(1) OVERSIGHT OF GUAM CONSTRUCTION.—It shall be the 
duty of the Interagency Coordination Group to conduct, super-
vise, and coordinate audits and investigations of the treatment,
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handling, and expenditure of amounts appropriated or other-
wise made available for military construction on Guam and 
of the programs, operations, and contracts carried out utilizing 
such funds, including— 
(A) the oversight and accounting of the obligation and 
expenditure of such funds; 
(B) the monitoring and review of construction activities 
funded by such funds; 
(C) the monitoring and review of contracts funded by 
such funds; 
(D) the monitoring and review of the transfer of such 
funds and associated information between and among 
departments, agencies, and entities of the United States 
and private and nongovernmental entities; 
(E) the maintenance of records on the use of such 
funds to facilitate future audits and investigations of the 
use of such fund; and 
(F) the monitoring and review of the implementation 
of the Defense Posture Review Initiative relating to the 
realignment of military installations and the relocation 
of military personnel on Guam. 
(2) OTHER
DUTIES
RELATED
TO
OVERSIGHT.—The Inter-
agency Coordination Group shall establish, maintain, and over-
see such systems, procedures, and controls as the Interagency 
Coordination Group considers appropriate to discharge the 
duties under paragraph (1). 
(3) OVERSIGHT PLAN.—The chairperson of the Interagency 
Coordination Group shall prepare an annual oversight plan 
detailing planned audits and reviews related to the Guam 
realignment. 
(d) ASSISTANCE FROM FEDERAL AGENCIES.— 
(1) PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE.—Upon request of the Inter-
agency Coordination Group for information or assistance from 
any department, agency, or other entity of the Federal Govern-
ment, the head of such entity shall, insofar as is practicable 
and not in contravention of any existing law, furnish such 
information or assistance to the Interagency Coordination 
Group. 
(2) 
REPORTING
OF
REFUSED
ASSISTANCE.—Whenever 
information or assistance requested by the Interagency 
Coordination Group is, in the judgment of the chairperson 
of the Interagency Coordination Group, unreasonably refused 
or not provided, the chairperson shall report the circumstances 
to the Secretary of Defense and to the congressional defense 
committees without delay. 
(e) REPORTS.— 
(1) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than February 1 of each 
year, the chairperson of the Interagency Coordination Group 
shall submit to the congressional defense committees, the Sec-
retary of Defense, and the Secretary of the Interior a report 
summarizing, for the preceding calendar year, the activities 
of the Interagency Coordination Group during such year and 
the activities under programs and operations funded with 
amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for military 
construction on Guam. Each report shall include, for the year 
covered by the report, a detailed statement of all obligations,
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expenditures, and revenues associated with such construction, 
including the following: 
(A) Obligations and expenditures of appropriated 
funds. 
(B) A project-by-project and program-by-program 
accounting of the costs incurred to date for military 
construction in connection with the realignment of military 
installations and the relocation of military personnel on 
Guam, together with the estimate of the Department of 
Defense and the Department of the Interior, as applicable, 
of the costs to complete each project and each program. 
(C) Revenues attributable to or consisting of funds 
contributed by the Government of Japan in connection 
with the realignment of military installations and the 
relocation of military personnel on Guam and any obliga-
tions or expenditures of such revenues. 
(D) Operating expenses of agencies or entities receiving 
amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for mili-
tary construction on Guam. 
(E) In the case of any contract, grant, agreement, or 
other funding mechanism described in paragraph (2)— 
(i) the amount of the contract, grant, agreement, 
or other funding mechanism; 
(ii) a brief discussion of the scope of the contract, 
grant, agreement, or other funding mechanism; 
(iii) a discussion of how the department or agency 
of the United States Government involved in the con-
tract, grant, agreement, or other funding mechanism 
identified, and solicited offers from, potential individ-
uals or entities to perform the contract, grant, agree-
ment, or other funding mechanism, together with a 
list of the potential individuals or entities that were 
issued solicitations for the offers; and 
(iv) the justification and approval documents on 
which was based the determination to use procedures 
other than procedures that provide for full and open 
competition. 
(2) COVERED
CONTRACTS, 
GRANTS, 
AGREEMENTS, 
AND 
FUNDING MECHANISMS.—A contract, grant, agreement, or other 
funding mechanism described in this paragraph is any major 
contract, grant, agreement, or other funding mechanism that— 
(A) is entered into by any department or agency of 
the United States Government with any public or private 
sector entity; and 
(B) involves the use of amounts appropriated or other-
wise made available for military construction on Guam. 
(3) FORM.—Each report required under this subsection shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
annex if the Interagency Coordination Group considers it nec-
essary. 
(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this subsection 
shall be construed to authorize the public disclosure of informa-
tion that is— 
(A) specifically prohibited from disclosure by any other 
provision of law; 
(B) specifically required by Executive order to be pro-
tected from disclosure in the interest of national defense
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or national security or in the conduct of foreign affairs; 
or 
(C) a part of an ongoing criminal investigation. 
(5) SUBMISSION OF COMMENTS.—Not later than 30 days 
after receipt of a report under paragraph (1), the Secretary 
of Defense or the Secretary of the Interior may submit to 
the congressional defense committees any comments on the 
matters covered by the report as the Secretary concerned con-
siders appropriate. Any comments on the matters covered by 
the report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
include a classified annex if the Secretary concerned considers 
it necessary. 
(f) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY; WAIVER.— 
(1) PUBLIC
AVAILABILITY.—The Interagency Coordination 
Group shall publish on a publically-available Internet website 
each report prepared under subsection (e). Any comments on 
the report submitted under paragraph (5) of such subsection 
shall also be published on such website. 
(2) WAIVER
AUTHORITY.—The President may waive the 
requirement under paragraph (1) with respect to availability 
to the public of any element in a report under subsection 
(e), or any comment with respect to a report, if the President 
determines that the waiver is justified for national security 
reasons. 
(3) NOTICE
OF
WAIVER.—The President shall publish a 
notice of each waiver made under this subsection in the Federal 
Register no later than the date on which a report required 
under subsection (e), or any comment under paragraph (5) 
of such subsection, is submitted to the congressional defense 
committees. The report and comments shall specify whether 
waivers under this subsection were made and with respect 
to which elements in the report or which comments, as appro-
priate. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAIL-
ABLE.—The term ‘‘amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available for military construction on Guam’’ includes amounts 
derived from the Support for United States Relocation to Guam 
Account. 
(2) GUAM.—The term ‘‘Guam’’ includes any island in the 
Northern Mariana Islands. 
(h) TERMINATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Interagency Coordination Group 
shall terminate upon the expenditure of 90 percent of all funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available for Guam realign-
ment. 
(2) FINAL REPORT.—Before the termination of the Inter-
agency Coordination Group pursuant to paragraph (1), the 
chairperson of the Interagency Coordination Group shall pre-
pare and submit to the congressional defense committees a 
final report containing— 
(A) notice that the termination condition in paragraph 
(1) has occurred; and 
(B) a final forensic audit on programs and operations 
funded with amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available for military construction on Guam.