About This Office

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands set forth a charter in June 2009 for the establishment of the Military Integration Management Committee as the planning and policy making entity for all activities that relate to the expansion of military training activities to the CNMI resulting from the United States Pacific Command’s (USPACOM) initiative known as the “Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy (IGPBS), the US and the Government of Japan’s “Roadmap for Realignment Implementation”, and other defense transformation initiatives in the CNMI and Guam.  The CNMI MIMC is the official entity through which the CNMI will interface with the Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps, Joint Guam Program Office (JGPO) and the Department of Defense.

The purpose of the MIMC is to conduct studies and recommend such policies as it may deem appropriate in order to facilitate and maximize sound and desirable land use planning, economic stability, and manage the impacts resulting from the military build up on Guam and in the CNMI.

The CNMI-MIMC consists of two committees and an indefinite number of members.  The first committee is the policy making committee and consists of eight members: the Governor of the CNMI, the Lieutenant Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, the Mayor of Saipan, the Mayor of Tinian, the Mayor of Rota, and the Mayor of the Northern Islands.  The committee is chaired by the Governor.

The second committee is the technical committee and is made up of selected members of the Legislature from each jurisdiction, representatives from the Mayors office of each jurisdiction, representatives from the Saipan Chamber of Commerce, representatives from the Strategic Economic Development Committee, Cabinet Secretaries, a JGPO representative, and any other military representatives that would be appropriate given the nature of the proposed military action.

Only the Policy Committee members will be voting members.  All technical committee members will be non-voting.

The MIMC was set up by a federal grant thru the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) and is being overseen by Department of Commerce.