§1989 Additional authorities

Summary

Money to carry out the listed compact obligations, services, and programs must be paid directly to the federal agencies, departments, or instrumentalities that will do the work. The covered obligations include certain parts of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, the U.S.-Palau Compact and its 2023 Review Agreement, any FDIC agreements with Palau, and what is in section 1988. Agency heads and the FDIC may do what is necessary to meet those obligations and may use available funds to do so. Any help given under section 1921d(j) (as amended by section 209(j)) and sections 1984(a), 1985(a), 1986(b), and 1988 must be extra and not taken from the amounts to be paid to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Republic of Palau under the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, or related subsidiary agreements. Even if other laws say otherwise, leftover balances appropriated for certain sections of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact (sections 211, 212(b), 215, and 217) must be managed under Article IX of the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Procedures Agreement, and leftover balances for certain sections of the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact (sections 211, 213(b), 216, and 218) must be managed under Article XI of the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures Agreement. Contributions under the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, the 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement, and the 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact may be given as U.S. grants. Money appropriated under section 1990 may go into interest-bearing accounts and keep the interest for the same purposes. Except as specifically provided, nothing here changes: Title I of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 (48 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.); Title I of Public Law 99–658 (48 U.S.C. 1931 et seq.); Title I of the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.); section 1259C of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (48 U.S.C. 1931 note; Public Law 115–91); or the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141; 132 Stat. 635). Even if section 109 of the 2003 Amendments Act would say otherwise, funds deposited under that section will be governed by the corresponding 2023 trust fund or fiscal procedures agreements when those agreements take effect, and certain grants made for fiscal year 2024 or later must follow the 2023 fiscal procedures agreements, with specified exceptions for Federal Programs and Services Agreements.