APPENDIX I ote APPENDIX [I AMERICAN SAMOA GOVERNMENT OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR PAGO PAGO, AMERICAK SAMOA 96799 Serial: November 11, 1969 1984 Mr. Frank C. Conahan Director National Security and International Affairs Division United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Dear Mr. Conahan: This is in response to your letter of October 11, 1984 forwarding for review and comment the draft report of the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) entitled "Issues Affecting U.S. Territory and Insular Policy." I would like to commend GAO and especially the evaluation team which came to American Samoa for.excellent research and the preparation of a report which as far as this Territory is concerned presents comprehensively and for the most part fairly the issues associated with present U.S. policy on the insular territories. Next, I would point out two places in the draft report which seem to_ us to require some clarification. A. Note b in Table I on page 15 attempts to define the term "U.S. national" as it relates to American Samoa. While the definition stated provided is correct so far as it goes, we believe the footnote would be more complete if it also paraphased 8 USC 1101 (a) (29) and 1408. The effect of these two provisions is to define a non-citizen national as (i) a person born in American Samoa on or after formal United States acquisition (April 17, 1900 for Tutuila and Aunu'tu Islands, July 16, 1904 for the Manu'a Islands, and March 4, 1925 for Swains Island), (ii) a person born outside the United States on or after June 27, 1952 of U.S. national parents who had resided in the United States or American Samoa prior to the person's birth, and (iii) a person of unknown parentage and place of birthfound in American Samoa while under’ the age of five vears (at least after reaching the age of 21 years). eeaE eBEteae PRETO First, GAO Note: 5000254 Page number references may not correspond to the page numbers in the final report. 52 eae eer B. The draft report discusses the economic self-reliance of the territories in Chapter 5. The relationship of federal financial assistance to local revenue efforts is portrayed in Table 2 on page 38. This presentation places American Samoa in a particularly unfavorable light. The figures used in this table would indicate