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Order 11021—Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands by the Secretary of the Interior, 1962 (Superseded by Executive Order 12569)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
- Guam - Executive Order 10137, August 1, 1950
- U.S. Virgin Islands – Executive Order 7968, December 5, 1938 – Signed by President Harry S. Truman, established the Virgin Islands Corporation to promote economic development and improve living conditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Executive Order 6726 – Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the U.S. Department of the Interior on May 29, 1934. This act transferred responsibilities for territories from the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Department of War to Interior.
- U.S. Virgin Islands – Executive Order 5566, February 27, 1931
- Department of the Interior the Division of Territories and Island Possessions.
Records of the Office of the Territories – National Archive
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance # (CFDA) for OIA
- Public Laws - Compacts of Free Association
2024 Compact Amendments Act – FSM, RMI, Palau 2024 Compact Documents – Federated States of Micronesia - Agreement to Amend the Compact, as amended (Micronesia 24-318), signed May 23, 2023, EIF March 18, 2024
- Federal Programs and Services Agreement (#1), signed September 28, 2023, EIF March 18, 2024
- Compact Trust Fund Agreement (#2), signed May 23, 2023, EIF March 18, 2024
- Procedures for Implementation of Economic Assistance under Compact (#3), March 18, 2024
2024 Compact Documents – Republic of the Marshall Islands (upload pending) Palau Compact Review 2003 Amended Compact of Free Association – FSM and RMI For 1986 and 1994 Compact of Free Association agreements with the FSM, RMI, and Palau and other historical documents, refer to Tab labelled Public Laws – Historical.
- Public Laws – Historical
A Historical Record of Interior/OIA with the U.S. Territories and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to 1994 - Public Law 99-658, November 14, 1986 (EIF: October 1, 1994) Palau Compact of Free Association
- 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)
- 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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