Policy and licensing / Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands: SMR policy and licensing
Selected federal measures and selected state and territory measures whose official text was opened. This is not a complete list of laws, rules or programmes for any jurisdiction. A state or territory without a page here is not a finding that it has no policy, and these pages do not rate or prefer any jurisdiction. Nothing here implies that a project is eligible for, or approved under, any measure.
This page covers a territory, not a state. Federal measures are listed once on the federal page and are not counted here; this page does not state how each of them applies in this jurisdiction.
Laws, rules and executive directives
- Northern Mariana Islands 2 CMC § 1326: small modular reactor exemption from the nuclear-free zone law · In effect
2 CMC § 1326 (Public Law 17-10, § 6) · Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature · affects: Siting
The Northern Mariana Islands' nuclear and chemical free zone law does not apply to radioactive materials used to build, operate and maintain small modular reactors used solely for electricity that meet federal safety certification and the section's public-health condition, under a section added by Public Law 17-10 and in effect since 28 July 2010. Waste may not be dumped or kept long-term in the Commonwealth. The section licenses nothing and names no project.
Not approved or pending: The section is an exemption from a territorial zone law. It does not license, fund or site a reactor, and it names no project. No utility-commission rule, order or proposal under this section was opened. Public Law 17-10 was read only through the commission's comment. This record does not state how any federal measure applies in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Bills, proposed rules and consultations
- None recorded in this pilot.
Funding and support programmes
- None recorded in this pilot.
NRC permissions and applications for tracked projects located in Northern Mariana Islands
Listed by project location only. The measures above do not license reactors.
- None recorded.
What this review has read for Northern Mariana Islands
As of 5 Oct 2026. A published record above is separate from research coverage: a class can be blocked or unreviewed even where records are published. Coverage for every state and territory.
The Northern Mariana Islands are a territory, not a state. The Commonwealth's code was read on the Commonwealth Law Revision Commission's site; the utilities commission's site could not be reached. The federal Atomic Energy Act defines the United States, in a geographical sense, to include all territories and possessions and Puerto Rico (42 U.S.C. 2014(bb), 2021 edition read). This review did not read how federal licensing has been applied here.
- Statutes, session laws and bills: Evidence read. 2 CMC § 1326 and § 1313 were read. The Commonwealth's nuclear and chemical free zone law does not apply to radioactive materials for small modular reactors used solely for electricity that meet federal safety certification; the exemption came from Public Law 17-10, in effect since 28 July 2010.
- Governor or energy instruments: Not reviewed. No governor or energy-office instrument was opened.
- Commission or siting instruments: Access blocked. The address tried for the Commonwealth Public Utilities Commission did not resolve. No commission rule or order was read.
- Funding measures and awards: Not reviewed. No funding measure or award was opened.
Sources read (4):
- cnmilaw.gov/docs/cmc_section/T2/1326.pdf · checked 2026-10-05
- cnmilaw.gov/docs/cmc_section/T2/1313.pdf · checked 2026-10-05
- cnmilaw.gov/search?q=nuclear · checked 2026-10-05
- www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2021-title42/html/USCODE-2021-title42-ch… · checked 2026-10-05
Sources that could not be read (2):
- www.cpuc.gov.mp/ · checked 2026-10-05 · host did not resolve
- cnmilaw.gov/document/26504 · checked 2026-10-05 · page shell without the document