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Section 143.
will be lost to a citizen of an FAS or the United States who takes
an affirmative step to preserve or acquire a citizenship or
nationality other than that of an FAS or the United States or
fails to renounce such an existing citizenship or nationality
Section
within two years after the effective date of the Compact.
143 does not deny the privileges conferred by Sections141 and 142
where citizenship is held in both an FAS and the United States or

in more than one FAS.

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This section enables United States citizens to enter
Section 144.
and remain in FAS government service without losing their U.S.
citizenship.
Article V, Representation
Section 151-152.
These sections provide for the establishment of
resident representatives in the capitals of the United States and
the FAS.
Designated representatives are entitled to limited or
functional immunity, exemptions and privileges in connection with
the performance of official duties.
Section 153.
This section exempts United States citizens who are
employed by or represent an FAS from the provision of the Foreign
Agents Registration Act and the Logan Act.
Article- VI,

Environmental Protection

Sections 161-163.
The sections within this article establish a
regulatory structure for United States governmental activities in
the FAS.
The United States agrees that it will adhere to the
National Environmental Policy Act in its activities in the FAS,
and that it will also comply with standards substantively similar
to those required by other specified United States environmental
laws.
The United States and the FAS agree to develop additional
environmental protection standards suited to unique conditions in
the FAS.
Under this structure, the FAS governments, but not
individual citizens, will be able to seek judicial review of
United States compliance in designated federal courts.
Finally,
as a reciprocal obligation the FAS agree to develop and enforce
substantively similar standards for environmental protection with

respect to its activities which are substantively similar to

United States activities.
The President of the United States may,
after appropriate consultations in the FAS, exempt federal
agencies from compliance where such exemption is determined to be
in the “paramount interest" of the United States, consistent with
Title Three of the Compact and the obligations of the Government
of the United States under international law.
This article was negotiated to address a fundamental a

concern about preservation of the fragile ecology of their islands

and their resultant desire that a commitment to adhere to the high
Standards of environmental care and protection embodied in United

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