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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20250
November 5, 1975
SUBJECT: Report of the Ad Hoc Avvisory Group on Puerto Rico
FROM:
TO
: Phallagford James E. Connor, Secretary J. Phil to the Campbell, Cabinet
Acting Secretary
The White House
We have reviewed the Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Puerto
Rico entitled "Compact of Permanent Union Between Puerto Rico and
the United States". In particular, we are concerned with the
implementation of such provisions as those contained in Article 3,
Legal Title to Crown Lands and Navigable Waters; Article 12,
Applicability of Federal Laws; Article 13, Assignment of Federal
Functions to the Free Associated State; Article 15, Judicial Review;
and Article 18, Ecology
It is not possible to determine from either the proposed compact
or the commentary contained in the report, the manner in which the
provisions of the Compact would in fact be administered by the Free
Associated State. We do not, therefore, know precisely the degree
to which programs of the Department of Agriculture would be affected
in the event of ratification of the Compact. However, we have noted
below some of the problems which might arise for the Department and
Puerto Rico if the Compact is adopted:
1. Article 3. Legal Title to Crown Lands and
Navigable Waters.
Subsection a. of this Article transfers title to all land and other
property of the United States in Puerto Rico acquired by cession
under the treaty of peace with Spain to the government of the Free
Associated State. USDA administers such Federal lands in Puerto
Rico as those within the jurisdiction of the Forest Service and the
Agricultural Research Service, To the degree that title to these
lands was acquired by the United States under the treaty of peace
with Spain, they would be transferred to the Free Associated State.
Although the United States could continue to hold to and use such
property for public purposes, disputes as to the exercise of rights
by the United States in lands, the timber thereon, any any other
propriety interests it may have therein might arise between the
Department of Agriculture and the Free Associated State.
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