[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 74 (Monday, April 19, 2010)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 20237-20238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9078]


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                Executive Order 13537 of April 14, 2010

                
Interagency Group on Insular Areas

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Interagency Group on Insular Areas.

                    (a) There is established, within the Department of 
                the Interior for administrative purposes, the 
                Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA) to address 
                policies concerning Guam, American Samoa, the United 
                States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the 
                Northern Mariana Islands (Insular Areas).
                    (b) The IGIA shall consist of:

(i) the heads of the executive departments, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 101;

(ii) the heads of such other executive agencies as the Co-Chairs of the 
IGIA may designate; and (iii) the Deputy Assistant to the President and 
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.

                    (c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Deputy 
                Assistant to the President and Director of 
                Intergovernmental Affairs shall serve as Co-Chairs of 
                the IGIA, convene and preside at its meetings, direct 
                its work, and establish such subgroups of the IGIA as 
                they deem appropriate, consisting exclusively of 
                members of the IGIA.
                    (d) Members of the IGIA may designate a senior 
                department or agency official who is a full-time 
                officer or employee of the Federal Government to 
                perform their IGIA functions.

                Sec. 2. Functions of the IGIA. The IGIA shall:

                    (a) advise the President on establishment or 
                implementation of policies concerning the Insular 
                Areas;
                    (b) solicit information and advice concerning the 
                Insular Areas from the Governors of, and other elected 
                officials in, the Insular Areas (including through at 
                least one meeting each year with any Governors of the 
                Insular Areas who may wish to attend) in a manner that 
                seeks their individual advice and does not involve 
                collective judgment, or consensus advice or 
                deliberation;
                    (c) solicit information and advice concerning the 
                Insular Areas, as the IGIA determines appropriate, from 
                representatives of entities or other individuals in a 
                manner that seeks their individual advice and does not 
                involve collective judgment, or consensus advice or 
                deliberation;
                    (d) solicit information from executive departments 
                or agencies for purposes of carrying out its mission; 
                and
                    (e) at the request of the head of any executive 
                department or agency who is a member of the IGIA, with 
                the approval of the Co-Chairs, promptly review and 
                provide advice on a policy or policy implementation 
                action affecting the Insular Areas proposed by that 
                department or agency.

                Sec. 3. Recommendations. The IGIA shall:

                    (a) submit annually to the President a report 
                containing recommendations regarding the establishment 
                or implementation of policies concerning the Insular 
                Areas; and
                    (b) provide to the President, from time to time, as 
                appropriate, recommendations concerning proposed or 
                existing Federal programs and policies affecting the 
                Insular Areas.

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                Sec. 4. General Provisions.

                     (a) The heads of executive departments and 
                agencies shall assist and provide information to the 
                IGIA, consistent with applicable law, as may be 
                necessary to carry out the functions of the IGIA. Each 
                executive department and agency shall bear its own 
                expenses of participating in the IGIA.
                    (b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to 
                impair or otherwise affect:

(i) authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the 
head thereof, or the status of that department or agency within the Federal 
Government; or

(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (c) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (d) This order shall supersede Executive Order 
                13299 of May 8, 2003.
                    (e) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    April 14, 2010.

[FR Doc. 2010-9078
Filed 4-16-10; 8:45 am]
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