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Executive Order 12572--Relations with the Northern Mariana Islands

Source: The provisions of Executive Order 12572 of Nov. 3, 1986, appear at 51 FR 40401, 3 CFR, 1986 Comp., p. 239, unless otherwise noted.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered that, consistent with the Joint Resolution to approve the "Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America," approved March 24, 1976 (Public Law 94-241; 90 Stat. 263), the relations of the United States with the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands shall, in all matters not the program responsibility of another Federal department or agency, be under the general administrative supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.


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