Notice of Availability of the Proposed Leasing Notice for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Outer Continental Shelf Pacific Mineral Lease Sale…

The federal government plans to offer seabed mineral leases off the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and it has picked a target date: December 16, 2026.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that its Proposed Leasing Notice for Pacific Mineral Lease Sale 2, or PACM-2, is now available. The sale covers Outer Continental Shelf areas near the CNMI. The docket number is BOEM-2026-0793.

The Proposed Leasing Notice lays out the sale’s size, timing and location. It also lists lease terms such as minimum bids, royalty rates and rental rates. Under federal rules, the CNMI Governor gets 60 days to review it, and the Governor’s comments are due by October 19, 2026.

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Next, BOEM has to publish a Final Leasing Notice in the Federal Register at least 30 days before any sale. Documents are on BOEM’s CNMI page at https://www.boem.gov/marine-minerals/commonwealth-northern-mariana-islands-cnmi-activities or from the Pacific Region office in Camarillo, California, at 805-384-6305.

Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/18/2026-16839/notice-of-availability-of-the-proposed-leasing-notice-for-the-commonwealth-of-the-northern-mariana

This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.