FUNDING , creates the organizations Executive Order No. management responsibilities Compact legislation. to effectively implement the provisions of this It creates an Interagency Group on Freely Associated State Affairs, and an Office of Freely Association The Order also helps define responsibilities Interior. “Responsibility . . .. Affairs. of the Secretaries of State and of the Secretary of the Interior includes . . . all other United States assistance agreement and defines specified in the Compact and its related The Secretary of the Interior shall coordinate the provision of the United States’ services and program to the freely associated and shall provide . . . to the executive departments and agencies of the United States the fiscal resources for such provision. seek the appropriations~/ of the funds necessary states, The Secretary shall to carry out the provisions . . . . as they relate to the obligations of the United States under the Compact and its related agreements.” It is thus clear to and recommended by the MIPG that funding for all DOE-run programs pursuant to obligation from the Compact or related agreement be provided through DOI. ~/underlining by MIPG