10 GCA § 45103: Guam Environmental Protection Agency.

(a) There is hereby created a Guam Environmental Protection Agency, hereinafter referred to as the Agency. The management of the Agency shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of nine (9) members to be appointed by I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi with the advice and consent of I Liheslatura. Members of the Board shall serve for a period of three (3) years each, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of such term. The terms shall stagger so that three (3) members shall be appointed by I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi each year, except that in the year in which the law is enacted, I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi shall appoint three (3) members for one (1) year; three (3) members for two (2) years; and three (3) members for three (3) years. The majority of the members of the Board shall not be employees of the government of Guam. A chairman shall be elected from among the members.

(b) Members of the Board shall be compensated at the rate of Fifty Dollars ($50) per meeting attended subject to a maximum of twenty (20) meetings per member per year.

45104. Administration.

(a) Administrator. The Board shall appoint an Administrator to administer matters of the Agency under the supervision of the Board. The Administrator shall not be a member of the Board and shall not have a right to vote. The Administrator shall be given the necessary authority and be held responsible for the administration of the Agency in all its activities subject only to such policies as may be adopted and such orders as may be issued by the Board.

(b) Deputy Administrator. The Board shall appoint a Deputy Administrator who shall not be member of the Board and shall not have a right to vote. The Deputy Administrator shall perform such functions as the Administrator desires during the absence of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in the Office of the Administrator until such time that another Administrator is appointed.

(c) Secretary of the Board. The Secretary of the Board shall be appointed by the Administrator and confirmed by the Board. The Secretary shall be responsible for keeping records of meetings and actions of the Board.

(d) Qualifications, Duties, Tenure and Compensation. The qualifications, duties, tenure and compensation of the Administrator, Deputy Administrator and Secretary shall be such as the Board may by resolution determine necessary and desirable, provided that their salaries may not exceed Twenty-Nine Thousand Dollars ($29,000), Twenty-Four Thousand Dollars ($24,000) and Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($14,400) per annum, respectively. Other fringe benefits such as leave, eligibility for hospital, dental, life insurance and retirement, shall be decided by the Board, notwithstanding any other laws to the contrary.