The Senate earlier adopted a separate resolution with the same intent.
Speaker Froilan C. Tenorio, Covenant-Saipan, sponsored House Resolution 17-11.
“The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands can offer geographical utility to the U.S. Department of Defense in its search for strategic defense capability in Asia Pacific Region; and whereas, the nation of Japan seeks to divert some of the military presence from the Island of Okinawa, notably the Marine Air Station Futenma…the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands offers its sincere welcome as the destination to relocate the Futenma Air Base,” the resolution states.
Two-thirds of public lands on Tinian were leased to the U.S. military, which has yet to fully utilize them.
