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B-202206 1 (1981-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjlu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-202206 MATTER DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER OENERAL.SO OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 . 1 q ;- DATE: June 16, 1981 OF: Northern Mariana Islands Commission on Federal Laws The Northern Mariana Islands Commission on Federal Laws, although it receives its appropriations from the Department of the Interior, is an independent entity in the Legislative Branch and not an Executive Branch agency. Therefore, it is not subject to administratively imposed hiring, travel, or office equipment procurement freezes applicable to Executive Branch agencies. As an independent entity, its Executive Director may sign purchase orders and travel authori- zations. It may not, however, use Interior Department forms for those purchases since it is not a component of Interior. It may not rent office space on its own unless it receives a delegation from the General Serv- ices Administration. The Federal Property and Administration Services Act is applicable to Federal entities in all branches of the Government. 40 U.S.C. § 472 (1976). We have b!een asked several questions by the Northern Mariana Islands Commission on Federal Laws which explore its relationship to the executive branch and, in particular, to the Department of the Interior. The Commission was established pursuant to the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, which was enacted in Pub. L. No. 94-241, approved March 24, 1976, 90 Stat. 263, 48 U.S.C. § 1681 1t5 (1976). Section 504 of this Covenant establishes the Commission and its duties: The President will appoint a Commission on Federal Laws to survey the laws of the United States and to make recommendations to the United States Congress as to which laws of the United States not applicable to the Northern Mariana Islands should be made applicable and to what extent and in what manner, and which applicable laws should bem ade inaplicable and to what extent and in what manner. The Commission will consist of seven persons (at least four of whom will be citizens of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands who are and have been for at least five years domiciled continuously in the Norti rn V5 / -0 7*?4-7 /4r ItAA4

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