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                                                                Calendar No. 583

                     114TH  CONGRESS                                           REPORT
                         2d Session                 SENATE                     114-311







                                  OMNIBUS TERRITORIES ACT OF 2015



                                       AUGUST 30, 2016.-Ordered to be printed

                             Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of July 14, 2016



                        Ms.  MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
                                      Resources,  submitted  the following


                                               REPORT

                                               [To accompany S. 2360]

                       The  Committee   on  Energy  and  Natural  Resources,  to which  was
                     referred the  bill (S. 2360) to improve the  administration  of certain
                     programs   in the insular areas, and  for other purposes,  having  con-
                     sidered  the same,  reports  favorably  thereon  with  an  amendment
                     and  recommends   that the bill, as amended,  do pass.
                       The  amendment is as follows:
                       Beginning   on  page  1, strike line 6 and all that follows  through
                     page  2, line 17 and insert the following:
                     SEC. 2. RESETTLEMENT AND RELOCATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF BIKINI.
                       The matter under the heading TRUST  TERRITORY   OF THE   PACIFIC IS-
                     LANDS  under the heading Office of Territorial Affairs under the heading DE-
                     PARTMENT   OF  THE INTERIOR  in chapter VIII of title I of the Supplemental Ap-
                     propriations Act, 1982 (Public Law 97-257; 96 Stat. 840), is amended by striking
                     the first proviso and inserting Provided, That such funds, including funds provided
                     pursuant to the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations
                     Act, 1989 (Public Law 100-446; 102 Stat. 1774), shall be available for the relocation
                     and resettlement of the Bikini people living on Kili and Ejit Islands, on the condi-
                     tion that the Secretary of the Interior submits to the Committee on Energy and Nat-
                     ural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House
                     of Representatives a resettlement plan developed in coordination with the Bikini
                     Atoll leadership: Provided further, That for any fiscal year, annual expenditures
                     from the Resettlement Fund established by this section and pursuant to the Depart-
                     ment of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 (Public Law
                     100-446; 102 Stat. 1774) may not exceed an amount that is greater than 90 percent
                     of the average annual earnings of the Fund for the preceding 5 years unless for re-
                     settlement purposes outside of the Marshall Islands:.
                     SEC. 3. RELIABLE AIR SERVICE IN AMERICAN SAMOA.
                       Section 40109(g) of title 49, United States Code, is amended-
                           (1) in paragraph (2), by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the following:
                         59-010

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