...Any funds made available to the Northern Mariana Islands under grant-in-aid programs by section 502 of the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the...Islands in Political Union With the United States of America (Public Law 94-241), or pursuant to any other Act of Congress enacted after March 24, 1976,...

...term also Includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Pursuant to section 703 of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the...Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, the term also includes the Northern Marianas. (g) The term management program includes,...

...issued Northern Marianas Identification Cards to aliens who acquired United States citizenship when the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States entered into force on November 3, 1986. These cards remain valid as evidence of United States citizenship....

...ownership under the Submerged Lands Act (48 USC 1301 et seq,), the Act of March 2. 1917 (48 USC 749), the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, as approved by the Act of March 24, 1976 (48 USC 1681 note) or section 1 of the Act of...

...extensive status negotiations, the United States and the Marianas Political Status Commission concluded a Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States ("Covenant"). Sections 101, 1002, and 1003(c) of the Covenant provide that the Northern Mariana Islands...

...Until a judiciary for the Northern Mariana Islands District has been established in accordance with the "Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States of America", the judicical authority for the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands shall remain...

...political status for the Trust Territory has continued along two tracks during the period under review. The Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United states of America, which had been approved by a plebiscite June 17, 1975, in the Northern Marianas, was approved...

...the Marianas Political Status Commission produced basic agreement by the end of the year on a draft covenant to establish a commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in political union with the United States. The negotiations with the Joint Committee on Future Status of the Congress of Micronesia with respect...

...me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including Section 1002 of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the...Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, and Sections 101 and 102 of the Joint Resolution to approve the "Compact of Free Association",...

...(1947). In February 1975, the United States and the people of the Northern Mariana Islands entered into a "Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern...Islands in Political Union with the United States of America" (the covenant). The covenant was ratified by a plebiscite in the Northern Mariana Islands...