---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 2197"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "2197"
heading: "Report"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/2197"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §2197. Report


Not later than 18 months after June 30, 2016, the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate describing—

- (1) the conditions which led to the level of debt, which should be analyzed, per capita and based upon overall economic activity;
- (2) how actions of the [territorial government](/usc/48/2104.md?p=18) improved or impaired the [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s financial conditions; and
- (3) recommendations on non-fiscal actions, or policies that would not imperil America’s homeland and national security, that could be taken by Congress or the Administration to avert future indebtedness of [territories](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20), while respecting sovereignty and constitutional parameters.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–187, title IV, § 410, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 594.)