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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
115TH CONGRESS REPT.115-1039
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
TO APPROVE AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES
NOVEMBER 20, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2085]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2085) to approve an agreement between the United
States and the Republic of Palau, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2085 is to approve an agreement between
the United States and the Republic of Palau.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Republic of Palau is a small nation comprised of 340 is-
lands 1 in the western Pacific Ocean located approximately 4,741
miles west of Hawaii,2 550 miles east of the Philippines, and 400
miles north of Papua New Guinea.3 The population of roughly
22,000 4 lives on just 189 square miles of land, with the most popu-
lous island being Koror.5
1Of these islands, only 9 are inhabited. http://www.palaugov.pw/executive-branch/ministries/
finance/budgetandplanning/physical-features/.
2https://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from-palau-to-hawaii.
3https://www.britannica.com/place/Palau.
4http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/palau-population/.
5http://www.palaugov.pw/executive-branch/ministries/finance/budgetandplanning/physical-
features/.
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