Executive Orders & Public Laws

The following executive orders and public laws provide authorities for and guide the work of the Office of Insular Affairs and inform the work of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out responsibilities for the Insular Areas. The Insular Areas are comprised of the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and the freely associated states which are the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.

Executive Orders, Secretarial Orders, and Departmental Manual

OMB Controller Alert 23-04, Waiving Matching Fund Requirements for Insular Areas, February 6, 2023
Renaming and Restructuring the Office of the Assistant Secretary, Secretarial Order #3361, February 1, 2018
White House Co-Chair of IGIA, Executive Order 13537, April 14, 2010
Establishment of Assistant Secretary – Insular Areas, July 2, 2009, Secretarial Order #3287
Establishment of IGIA – Executive Order 13299, May 8, 2003
Coral Reef Protection – Executive Order 13089, June 11, 1998
Territorial and International Affairs – Departmental Manual 575, April 27, 1989
Northern Mariana Islands – Executive Order 12572, November 3, 1986
Executive Order 12569--Management of the Compact of Free Association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, 1986
Secretarial Order #2918 – Government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1968
Executive Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior, 1962 (Superseded by Executive Order 12569)
U.S. Virgin Islands – Revised Organic Act of 1954
American Samoa – Executive Order 10264, July 1, 1951
- Secretarial Order #3009 – Elected Governor and Lt. Governor of American Samoa
Guam - Executive Order 10137, August 1, 1950
U.S. Virgin Islands – Executive Order 5566, February 27, 1931

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance # (CFDA) for OIA

The Office of Insular Affairs' CFDA number for federal grant assistance, when available at Grants.gov is 15.875.

Public Laws - Compacts of Free Association

Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2024, Public Law 118-42, Signed March 9, 2024.
2010 Palau Compact Section 432 Review Agreement, Signed September 19, 2018
2010 Palau Compact Section 432 Review Agreement w/appendices, September 3, 2010
Public Law 108-188, signed May 14, 2003, Amended Compact of Free Association – FSM
Public Law 108-188, signed April 30, 2003, Amended Compact of Free Association – RMI
Public Law 99-658, November 14, 1986 (EIF: October 1, 1994) Palau Compact of Free Association
- Subsidiary Agreements Between the U.S. and Palau
Executive Order 12569--Management of the Compact of Free Association With the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau
Public Law 99-239, January 14, 1986 Compact of Free Association – FSM & RMI
Implementation of Section 177 of the Compact of Free Association Between the U.S. and the RMI – Signed June 25, 1983
Executive Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior (superseded by Executive Order 12569)

Public Laws – Historical

A Historical Record of Interior/OIA with the U.S. Territories and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to 1994

Proclamation 6763 December 23, 1994 – Duty Free Treatment to Products of Palau
Presidential Proclamation No. 6726, 59 Federal Register 49777 (Sept. 27, 1994) - Entry into Force of Palau Compact, October 1, 1994
Termination of the U.S. Trusteeship – Proclamation 5564, November 3, 1986
Executive Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior (superseded by Executive Order 12569)
Methods of Assistance to Insular Areas – Public Law 96-597, sec.601(a), December 24, 1980
Public Law 90-497, sec.12(a), September 11, 1968 Guam and Federal Government relations under Interior
Public Law 90-496, sec.13, August 23, 1968 – USVI and Federal Government relations under Interior
1917 Proclamation on Cession of the Danish West Indies - Treaty No.629, 39 Stat. 1706"
Treaty of 1898 Between Spain and the U.S. Regarding Guam

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