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The purpose of this Chapter is to provide guidelines for relocation payments and relocation assistance and to otherwise enable the American Samoa Government to comply with the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970.The Chapter lays down rules for the assistance by the Government in relocation of owners of land or dwellings or tenants displaced due to an agency acquiring real property for public use. There shall be fair and reasonable payments to displaced persons and business as required by this Chapter, for specified expenses including actual direct losses of tangible personal property as a result of moving or discontinuing a farm operation. The Chapter also prescribes the procedures for the acquisition of real property by the Government for purposes of this Chapter.