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| http://sablan.house.gov/press-release/public-health-officers-can-continue-serve-nmi | Public Health Officers can continue to serve in NMI | 2014-08-29 | 2014 | 2014-08 | Independent | Senate | MP | Gregorio Sablan | S001177 | sablan.house.gov | legacy | Public Health Officers can continue to serve in NMI Aug 29, 2014 The issue of whether the Commonwealth Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality and the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation can continue to benefit from the technical expertise of officers of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Services has been resolved in favor of the CNMI. Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, Acting Surgeon General of the United States, and Environmental Protection Agency Region IX Administrator, Jared Blumenfeld, informed me this week that the legal authority allowing assignment of these officers to our islands was no longer in question. I had told the Surgeon General and EPA Administrator that I was ready to work for a change in the law, if necessary, after receiving word of the problem from CUC Executive Director Alan Fletcher in June. Utility and environmental agency managers in American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Marianas had been dealing with the problem since 2011, when the number of officers began to be cut back. But Congressional attention can sometimes help to bring issues to conclusion. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |