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48 U.S.C. § 2101 — Federal agency requirements
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**(a) Federal Points of Contact** At the request of the Revitalization Coordinator and within 30 days of receiving such a request, each Federal agency with jurisdiction over the permitting, or administrative or environmental review of private or public projects in Puerto Rico, shall name a Point of Contact who will serve as that agency’s liaison with the Revitalization Coordinator.
**(b) Federal grants and loans** For each Critical Project with a pending or potential Federal grant, loan, or loan guarantee application, the Revitalization Coordinator and the relevant Point of Contact shall cooperate with each other to ensure expeditious review of such application.
**(c) Expedited reviews and actions of Federal agencies** All reviews conducted and actions taken by any Federal agency relating to a Critical Project shall be expedited in a manner consistent with completion of the necessary reviews and approvals by the deadlines under the Expedited Permitting Process, but in no way shall the deadlines established through the Expedited Permitting Process be binding on any Federal agency.
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**(a) Federal Points of Contact** At the request of the Revitalization Coordinator and within 30 days of receiving such a request, each Federal agency with jurisdiction over the permitting, or administrative or environmental review of private or public projects in Puerto Rico, shall name a Point of Contact who will serve as that agency’s liaison with the Revitalization Coordinator.
**(b) Federal grants and loans** For each Critical Project with a pending or potential Federal grant, loan, or loan guarantee application, the Revitalization Coordinator and the relevant Point of Contact shall cooperate with each other to ensure expeditious review of such application.
**(c) Expedited reviews and actions of Federal agencies** All reviews conducted and actions taken by any Federal agency relating to a Critical Project shall be expedited in a manner consistent with completion of the necessary reviews and approvals by the deadlines under the Expedited Permitting Process, but in no way shall the deadlines established through the Expedited Permitting Process be binding on any Federal agency.
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Comprehensive energy plan** — The term “comprehensive energy plan” means a comprehensive energy plan prepared and updated under subsections (c) and (e) of [section 1492 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1492&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Energy action plan** — The term “energy action plan” means the plan required by subsection (d).
(3) **Freely Associated States** — The term “Freely Associated States” means the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
(4) **Insular areas** — The term “insular areas” means American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
(5) **Secretary** — The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior, except that, with respect to Puerto Rico, the term means, the Secretary of Energy.
(6) **Team** — The term “team” means the team established by the Secretary under subsection (b).
**(b) Establishment** Not later than 180 days after December 16, 2014 (except in the case of Puerto Rico, in which case not later than 270 days after June 30, 2016), the Secretary shall, within the Empowering Insular Communities activity (except in the case of Puerto Rico), establish a team of technical, policy, and financial experts—
(1) to develop an energy action plan addressing the energy needs of each of the insular areas and Freely Associated States; and
(2) to assist each of the insular areas and Freely Associated States in implementing such plan.
**(c) Participation of regional utility organizations** In establishing the team, the Secretary shall consider including regional utility organizations.
**(d) Energy action plan** In accordance w
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**(a) In general** There is established within the Administration a program (to be known as the HUBZone program) to be carried out by the Administrator to provide for Federal contracting assistance, including promoting economic development in economically distressed areas (as defined in section 636(m)(11)),11 See References in Text note below. to qualified HUBZone small business concerns in accordance with this section.
**(b) Definitions relating to HUBZones** In this section:
(1) **Historically underutilized business zone** — The terms “historically underutilized business zone” or “HUBZone” mean any area located within 1 or more—
(A) qualified census tracts;
(B) qualified nonmetropolitan counties;
(C) lands within the external boundaries of an Indian reservation;
(D) redesignated areas;
(E) base closure areas;
(F) qualified disaster areas; or
(G) a Governor-designated covered area.
(2) **HUBZone small business concern** — The term “HUBZone small business concern” means—
(A) a small business concern that is at least 51 percent owned and controlled by United States citizens;
(B) a small business concern that is—
(i) an Alaska Native Corporation owned and controlled by Natives (as determined pursuant to [section 1626(e)(1) of title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1626/e/1&num=0&edition=prelim)); or
(ii) a direct or indirect subsidiary corporation, joint venture, or partnership of an Alaska Native Corporation qualifying pursuant to [section 1626(e)(1) of title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1626/e/1&num=0&edition=prelim), if that subsidiary, joint venture, or partnership is owned and controlled by Natives (as determined pursuant to [secti
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**(a) In general** Except as provided in subsection (b), if any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, or the application of that provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, is not affected thereby, provided that subchapter III is not severable from subchapters I and II, and subchapters I and II are not severable from subchapter III.
**(b) Uniformity** If a court holds invalid any provision of this chapter or the application thereof on the ground that the provision fails to treat similarly situated territories uniformly, then the court shall, in granting a remedy, order that the provision of this chapter or the application thereof be extended to any other similarly situated territory, provided that the legislature of that territory adopts a resolution signed by the territory’s governor requesting the establishment and organization of a Financial Oversight and Management Board pursuant to [section 2121 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section2121&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The provisions of this chapter shall prevail over any general or specific provisions of territory law, State law, or regulation that is inconsistent with this chapter.
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In this chapter—
(1) **Agreed accounting standards** — The term “agreed accounting standards” means modified accrual accounting standards or, for any period during which the Oversight Board determines in its sole discretion that a territorial government is not reasonably capable of comprehensive reporting that complies with modified accrual accounting standards, such other accounting standards as proposed by the Oversight Board.
(2) **Bond** — The term “Bond” means a bond, loan, letter of credit, other borrowing title, obligation of insurance, or other financial indebtedness for borrowed money, including rights, entitlements, or obligations whether such rights, entitlements, or obligations arise from contract, statute, or any other source of law, in any case, related to such a bond, loan, letter of credit, other borrowing title, obligation of insurance, or other financial indebtedness in physical or dematerialized form of which the issuer, obligor, or guarantor is the territorial government.
(3) **Bond Claim** — The term “Bond Claim” means, as it relates to a Bond—
(A) right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured; or
(B) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured, or unsecured.
(4) **Budget** — The term “Budget” means the Territory Budget or an Instrumentality Budget, as applicable.
(5) **Puerto Rico** — The term “Puerto Rico” means the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(6) **Compliant budget** — The term “compliant
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The Law Revision Counsel is directed to place this Act as chapter 20 of title 48.
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Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, nothing in this chapter shall be construed as impairing or in any manner relieving a territorial government, or any territorial instrumentality thereof, from compliance with Federal laws or requirements or territorial laws and requirements implementing a federally authorized or federally delegated program protecting the health, safety, and environment of persons in such territory.
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of the Oversight Board is to provide a method for a covered territory to achieve fiscal responsibility and access to the capital markets.
**(b) Establishment**
(1) **Puerto Rico** — A Financial Oversight and Management Board is hereby established for Puerto Rico.
(2) **Constitutional basis** — The Congress enacts this chapter pursuant to article IV, section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides Congress the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations for territories.
**(c) Treatment** An Oversight Board established under this section—
(1) shall be created as an entity within the territorial government for which it is established in accordance with this subchapter; and
(2) shall not be considered to be a department, agency, establishment, or instrumentality of the Federal Government.
**(d) Oversight of territorial instrumentalities**
(1) **Designation**
(A) *In general* — An Oversight Board, in its sole discretion at such time as the Oversight Board determines to be appropriate, may designate any territorial instrumentality as a covered territorial instrumentality that is subject to the requirements of this chapter.
(B) *Budgets and reports* — The Oversight Board may require, in its sole discretion, the Governor to submit to the Oversight Board such budgets and monthly or quarterly reports regarding a covered territorial instrumentality as the Oversight Board determines to be necessary and may designate any covered territorial instrumentality to be included in the Territory Budget; except that the Oversight Board may not designate a covered territorial instrumentality to be included in the Territory Budget if applicable territory law does not require legislative approval of such covered ter
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**(a) Executive Director** The Oversight Board shall have an Executive Director who shall be appointed by the Chair with the consent of the Oversight Board. The Executive Director shall be paid at a rate determined by the Oversight Board.
**(b) Staff** With the approval of the Chair, the Executive Director may appoint and fix the pay of additional personnel as the Executive Director considers appropriate, except that no individual appointed by the Executive Director may be paid at a rate greater than the rate of pay for the Executive Director unless the Oversight Board provides for otherwise. The staff shall include a Revitalization Coordinator appointed pursuant to subchapter V of this chapter. Any such personnel may include private citizens, employees of the Federal Government, or employees of the territorial government, provided, however, that the Executive Director may not fix the pay of employees of the Federal Government or the territorial government.
**(c) Inapplicability of certain employment and procurement laws** The Executive Director and staff of the Oversight Board may be appointed and paid without regard to any provision of the laws of the covered territory or the Federal Government governing appointments and salaries. Any provision of the laws of the covered territory governing procurement shall not apply to the Oversight Board.
**(d) Staff of Federal agencies** Upon request of the Chair, the head of any Federal department or agency may detail, on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis, and in accordance with the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 ([5 U.S.C. 3371–337](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3371–337&num=0&edition=prelim)5), any of the personnel of that department or agency to the Oversight Board
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**(a) Hearings and sessions** The Oversight Board may, for the purpose of carrying out this chapter, hold hearings, sit and act at times and places, take testimony, and receive evidence as the Oversight Board considers appropriate. The Oversight Board may administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before it.
**(b) Powers of members and agents** Any member or agent of the Oversight Board may, if authorized by the Oversight Board, take any action that the Oversight Board is authorized to take by this section.
**(c) Obtaining official data**
(1) **From Federal government** — Notwithstanding sections 552 (commonly known as the Freedom of Information Act), 552a (commonly known as the Privacy Act of 1974), and 552b (commonly known as the Government in the Sunshine Act) of title 5, the Oversight Board may secure directly from any department or agency of the United States information necessary to enable it to carry out this chapter, with the approval of the head of that department or agency.
(2) **From territorial government** — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Oversight Board shall have the right to secure copies, whether written or electronic, of such records, documents, information, data, or metadata from the territorial government necessary to enable the Oversight Board to carry out its responsibilities under this chapter. At the request of the Oversight Board, the Oversight Board shall be granted direct access to such information systems, records, documents, information, or data as will enable the Oversight Board to carry out its responsibilities under this chapter. The head of the entity of the territorial government responsible shall provide the Oversight Board with such information and assistance (including granting the Oversight Board di
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