Notice of Availability of Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagrams
Issued by Interior Department
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), in accordance with its authority and responsibility under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, is announcing the availability of new World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84)-based Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Official Protraction Diagrams (OPDs). These OPDs depict geographic areas located on the OCS offshore the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) covering the extent of the area identified for further consideration for potential OCS mineral leasing and environmental analysis in BOEM's CNMI Area Identification that was finalized on March 18, 2026. These diagrams may be used in the descriptions of potential OCS mineral lease sales off of CMNI. Additional OPDs for areas offshore CNMI that were not included in the March 2026 Area Identification are expected to be published in the future.
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