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Encyclopedia > Office of Insular Affairs

The Office of Insular Affairs is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that manages several United States possessions. Currently, it has administrative responsibility for coordinating federal policy in the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and oversight of federal programs and funds in the freely associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.


External links

  • Official website of the U.S. Office of Insular Affairs (http://www.doi.gov/oia/index.html)

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On behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, the Office of Insular Affairs generally administers the U.S. Government’s relationship with its territories with the exception of Puerto Rico.
The Office of Insular Affairs also administers the financial assistance that the U.S. provides to the nations in “free association” with the U.S.—the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau—under the Compacts of Free Association.
The Office of Insular Affairs has an annual budget of over 425 million U.S. dollars, the large majority of which is provided to the Pacific.
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