° 6. Keep‘the Interior Office of Territorial Affairs and the Washington Committee for Interagency Territorial Assistance advised concerning issues and problems. COMMITTEE PROCEDURES The Canmittee discussed several alternative approaches to accomplishing the above objectives. It was finally decided that we should set only temporary procedures at this time wmtil we have obtained more information as to the exact nature of the problems and issues with which we will be dealing. Accordingly, the Camittee agreed to adopt the following temporary procedures: 1. The best approach for dealing with specific problems appears to be the creation of subcammittees which will permit the utilization of staff with subsequent recommendations to the committee; 2. The Chairman will act as liaison with the office of Territorial Affairs and the Washington Committee; 3. All camittee members will immediately institute a procedure within their respective Departments wherein the Chairman will be notified by carbon copy or otherwise of travel, programs, grants, and other matters dealing with the territories. The Chairman will effect subsequent distribution of such information as appropriate; 4. The Chairman emphasized that in order to be effective each camittee member will be expected, in most matters, to have broad authority to speak and make cammitments for the Department or agency represented by the committee member; 5. Initially, the committee will hold bi-monthly meetings unless sooner called by the Chaizmman. ACTIONS BY COMMITTEE Compilation of Federal Programs: It was agreed that a compilation of current active federal programs in the territories, as well as those authorized but not active, is essential for the Committee's future actions. In this regard, the Chairman informed the committee that Interior is under a Congressional mandate to make a comprehensive compilation of all Federal programs available to the territories. ... This compilation is to include: (1) what Federal programs are now available to each territory, including those in the Atlantic as well as the Pacific; (2) what programs would be of benefit to each territory if made available; (3) what changes or modifications of each program should be made to improve the effectiveness and operation of each program; and, (4) the estimated. cost of each program,-=:.