---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 2198"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "2198"
heading: "Report on territorial debt"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/2198"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §2198. Report on territorial debt

- (a) **Report required—** Not later than one year after June 30, 2016, and thereafter not less than once every two years, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on the public debt of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20), including—
  - (1) the historical levels of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s public debt, current amount and composition of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s public debt, and future projections of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s public debt;
  - (2) the historical levels of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s revenue, current amount and composition of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s revenue, and future projections of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s revenue;
  - (3) the drivers and composition of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s public debt;
  - (4) the effect of Federal laws, mandates, rules, and regulations on each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20)’s public debt; and
  - (5) the ability of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20) to repay it’s[^1] public debt.
- (b) **Materials—** The government of each [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20) shall make available to the Comptroller General of the United States all materials necessary to carry out this section.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “its”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–187, title IV, § 411, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 594.)