Download Free Us Insular Areas Economic Fiscal Financial Accountability Challenges Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Us Insular Areas Economic Fiscal Financial Accountability Challenges and write the review.

American Samoa (AS) is the only populated U.S. insular area that does not have a Fed. court. Congress has granted the local High Court Fed. jurisdiction for certain Fed. matters. This testimony discusses: (1) the current system for adjudicating matters of Fed. law in AS and how it compares to those in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; (2) the reasons offered for or against changing the current system for adjudicating matters of Fed. law in AS; (3) potential scenarios and issues associated with establishing a Fed. court in AS or expanding the Fed. jurisdiction of the local court; and (4) the potential cost elements and funding sources associated with implementing those different scenarios. Includes recommend. Ill.
The Dept. of the Interior is responsible for managing much of the nation's vast natural resources. Its agencies implement an array of programs intended to protect these precious resources for future generations while also allowing certain uses of them, such as oil and gas dev¿t. and recreation. Interior faces major mgmt. challenges in the following six areas: (1) Strengthening resource protection; (2) Strengthening the accountability of Indian and island community programs; (3) Improving fed. land acquisition and mgmt.; (4) Reducing Interior's deferred maintenance backlog; (5) Ensuring the accurate collection of royalties; and (6) Enhancing other revenue collections and financial assurances. Illustrations.
Owing to high levels of poverty, Amer. Samoa, the N. Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands rely heavily on need-based fed. programs to provide basic services. Two federal agencies publish measures used by some federal programs to determine poverty status and allocate need-based assistance: the Census Bureau (Census), and the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). The approaches used to determine these poverty measures affect, respectively, poverty population statistics and income eligibility of individuals and families for certain need-based federal assistance. This report examined how the Census poverty thresholds and HHS poverty guidelines are determined for the insular areas. This is a print on demand report.
Amer. Samoa is the only populated U.S. insular area that does not have a fed. court. Congress has granted the local High Court fed. jurisdiction for certain fed. matters, such as specific areas of maritime law. This is a report on Amer. Samoa¿s system for addressing matters of fed. law and discusses: (1) the current system for adjudicating matters of fed. law in Amer. Samoa; (2) the reasons offered for or against changing the current system for adjudicating matters of fed. law in Amer. Samoa; (3) potential scenarios and issues associated with establishing a fed. court in Amer. Samoa or expanding the fed. jurisdiction of the local court; and (4) the potential cost elements and funding sources associated with implementing those different scenarios. Illus.