PUBLIC LAW 99-239—JAN. 14, 1986
99 STAT. 1789
Reports submitted pursuant to this paragraph (hereafter in this subsection referred to as "reports") shall identify any adverse consequences resulting from the Compact and shall make recommendations for corrective action to eliminate those consequences. The reports shall pay particular attention to matters relating to trade, taxation, immigration, labor laws, minimum wages, social systems and infrastructure, and environmental regulation. With regard to immigration, the reports shall include statistics concerning the number of persons availing themselves of the rights described in section 141(a) of the Compact during the year covered by each report. With regard to Imports. trade, the reports shall include an analysis of the impact on the Tuna fish. economy of American Samoa resulting from imports of canned Post, p. 1804. tuna into the United States from the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. (3) OTHER VIEWS.—In preparing the reports, the President President of U.S. shall request the views of the Government of the State of Report. Hawaii, and the governments of each of the United States territories and commonwealths, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau, and shall transmit the full text of any such views to the Congress as part of such reports. (4) COMMITMENT OF CONGRESS TO REDRESS ADVERSE CON-
SEQUENCES.—The Congress hereby declares that, if any adverse consequences to United States territories and commonwealths or the State of Hawaii result from implementation of the Compact of Free Association, the Congress will act sympathetically and expeditiously to redress those adverse consequences. (5) DEFINITION OF U.S. TERRITORIES AND COMMONWEALTHS.—As
used in this subsection, the term "United States territories and commonwealths" means the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islemds, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. (6) IMPACT COSTS.—There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1985, such sums as may be necessary to cover the costs, if any, incurred by the State of Hawaii, the territories of Guam and American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands resulting from any increased demands placed on educational and social services by immigrants from the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. (f) FISHERIES MANAGEMENT.—In clarification of Title One, Article II, section 121(b)(l) of the Compact: Post, p. 1801. (1) Nothing in the Compact or this joint resolution shall be interpreted as recognition by the United States of any claim by the Federated States of Micronesia or by the Marshall Islands to jurisdiction or authority over highly migratory species of fish during the time such species of fish are found outside the territorial sea of the Federated States of Micronesia or the Marshall Islands. (2) It is the understanding of Congress that none of the monies Vessels. made available pursuant to the Compact or this joint resolution will be used by either the Federated States of Micronesia or the Marshall Islands for enforcement actions against any vessel of the United States on the basis of fishing by any such vessel for highly migratory species of fish outside the territorial sea of the
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