Public hearings are expected later this year in in American Samoa to discuss a report compiled by the Future Political Status Study Commission.
Senate President Lolo M. Moliga says the hearings should be held in the later part of October or early November.
The report recommends that American Samoa should continue as an unincorporated territory and that a process of negotiation with the U.S. Congress for a permanent political status should be initiated.
It says that a specially-tailored Act of Congress is needed to reaffirm the specific protective provisions for lands and titles in the Constitution of American Samoa.
It states that such an Act may be passed without changing the present political status.
Lolo says the Senate wants to hold discussions about it before the governor calls a constitution convention.
