Other Agencies with Actions or Authorizations:

Department of the Army, US Army Corps of Engineers - Regulatory

Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department of Defense, US Army Corps of Engineers - Civil Works

Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service

Environmental Protection Agency

Description:

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC (“Atlantic Shores”) proposes to construct, operate, and maintain the Atlantic Shore North Project (the “Project”; “Atlantic Shores North”), an offshore renewable wind energy facility in Lease Area OCS-A 0549, which is approximately 7.8 statute miles (mi) (12.6 kilometers [km]) from the New Jersey (NJ) shoreline and approximately 60 miles (96.6 km) from the New York State (NY) Coast.

The Lease Area layout is designed to maximize offshore renewable wind energy production while minimizing effects on existing marine uses. The structures will be aligned in a uniform grid with multiple lines of orientation allowing straight transit through the Lease Area. Within the Lease Area, the WTGs and OSSs will be connected by inter-array cables and/or inter-link cables. Energy from the OSSs will be delivered to shore by buried export cables that will be located within designated Export Cable Corridors (ECCs) from the Lease Area through Federal as well as New Jersey and/or New York State waters to landfall sites on the New Jersey and/or New York coastlines.

Atlantic Shores will use horizontal directional drilling (HDD) technology to install the export cables from the end of the ECCs to the landfall sites to minimize impacts to the intertidal and nearshore habitats and ensure stable burial of the cables. From each landfall site, the onshore interconnection cables will travel underground primarily along existing roadways and utility rights-of-way (ROWs) to new or existing onshore substation and/or converter station sites.

The Executive Director granted a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management request to extend the COP, NEPA, Section 106, ESA, EFH, MMPA, Section 10/404, Section 408, NPDES, and OCS Air Permit completion dates on January 2, 2025. The Executive Director determination is posted here.