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Permitting Action Modification History

In Progress
N/A
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- Yes
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-17-2022 --- Yes
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 06-19-2023 06-25-2024 Yes
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 05-27-2025 No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 06-26-2025 No
In Progress
N/A
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- Yes
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-17-2022 --- Yes
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 06-19-2023 06-25-2024 Yes
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 02-25-2025 No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 03-27-2025 No
In Progress
After receipt of a revised ITA application on December 4, 2023 NMFS notified the project sponsor of an estimated expedited timeline contingent upon 1) finalizing agreement on major mitigation and monitoring measures and 2) ensuring the ITA application includes all the necessary and accurate information. Publication of the proposed ITA is now scheduled to occur within 7 months of the project sponsor’s December 4, 2023, submittal of a revised ITA application. Publication of the proposed rule is currently scheduled for July 8, 2024, contingent upon the project sponsor providing all information necessary to NMFS to complete the proposed rule. The July 8 date is an expedited schedule, as the standard nominal timeframe from receipt of an ITA application to proposed rule is 14 months. 4-8-24: Revised schedule submitted by BOEM for publishing with an updated proposed ITA date of 6/24/24, final ITA of 2/25/25 and ITA rendered 3/27/25.
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- Yes
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-17-2022 --- Yes
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 06-19-2023 06-24-2024 No
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 02-25-2025 No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 03-27-2025 No
In Progress
In June 2022, Mayflower informed NMFS that they will not be submitting a revised application until August 15, 2022 which was after the adequate and complete milestone at the time. The next iteration of the application was expected to have a significant amount of new information requiring extensive review and NOAA suspected we will have additional comments Mayflower will have to address before we receive an adequate and complete application. The new schedule reflected the time needed to achieve this as well as remain in accordance with the nominal timeline . The shift in the MMPA schedule also required us to modify ESA milestones 2 and 3, given the dependencies between the MMPA and ESA. As such, ESA milestone 2 was pushed back to be no more than 30 days ahead of the planned publication of the proposed MMPA ITA. EFH milestone 2 has been shifted to be concurrent with ESA milestone 2. ESA and EFH milestones 3 are set at 150 and 90 days, respectively, from milestone 2. There were several revisions to NOAA milestones in July and August, 2022 on the back end of the Dashboard that were not made by NOAA and were in error.  NOAA made attempts at the time to have these corrected and thought the issues were resolved.   On December 22, 2022, NOAA noticed there were still errors with the final two MMPA milestones as well as the final ESA and EFH milestones, so these were corrected to be the dates we provided in June.  This triggered FPISC ED review, as the dates were more than 30 days from the published dates, but are the dates that were originally published in June, which triggered ED review at that time. 
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- Yes
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-17-2022 --- Yes
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 06-19-2023 --- No
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 --- No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 --- No
In Progress
Milestones updated because of delay caused by late LOA submission
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- Yes
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-17-2022 --- Yes
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 05-19-2023 --- No
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 01-19-2024 --- No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 --- No
In Progress
The NOR was published two days ahead of the milestone target completion date.  
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- Yes
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-17-2022 --- Yes
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 03-07-2023 --- No
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 --- No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 --- No
In Progress
As noted when NMFS revised our milestones back in July, 2022, the milestones were shifted due to Project Sponsor/applicant delay in submitting their application for the MMPA Incidental Take Authorization.  The shift in the MMPA schedule to accommodate the applicant delay also resulted in shifts to our ESA timeline due to dependencies between these two actions and resulted in shifts to our EFH timeline due to the coordination of ESA/EFH milestone dates. 
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- Yes
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-19-2022 --- No
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 03-07-2023 --- No
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 --- No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 --- No
Planned
NOAA updated the milestone dates on 7/6/22. On 7/26/22 BOEM revised the milestones, but these revisions were not coordinated with NOAA and we were unaware of the changes.  These 8/12/22 revisions put the MMPA milestones back to the dates we entered on 7/6/22.   CC 8/25 - Corrected dates published/nonconformance exempted. Discussed with BOEM - Genny meant to check box 1 as well so that has been confirmed and published.
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) 03-18-2022 03-18-2022 --- Yes
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-08-2022 09-19-2022 --- No
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 10-19-2022 --- No
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 03-17-2023 --- No
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 --- No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 --- No
Planned
These proposed new dates were originally drafted by NMFS in March 2022 in response to the developer not submitting an initial MMPA application until March 18, 2022 (it was due February 8, 2022 to remain on track with the original timeline). However, updates were not made to the dashboard at that time due to uncertainty regarding other potential date changes.  In June 2022, Mayflower informed NMFS that they will not be submitting a revised application until August 15, 2022 which is after the adequate and complete milestone date currently on the permitting dashboard. The next iteration of the application will have a significant amount of new information which will require extensive review. The revised application is anticipated to include exposure modeling for installation of 2 monopiles per day; vibratory pile driving acoustic and exposure modeling (for foundation installation); concurrent pile driving acoustic and exposure modeling; UXO modeling; basic passive acoustic monitoring and sound field verification plans; mitigation and monitoring plan for crew transfer vessels; mitigation and monitoring plan for large clearance/shutdown zones; and a nighttime monitoring plan. This is a large amount of new information and we suspect we will have additional comments Mayflower will have to address before we receive an adequate and complete application. The new schedule will reflect the time needed to achieve this as well as remain in accordance with the nominal timeline such that there is 6 months between initial application submission and NMFS determining the application is adequate and complete. The shift in the MMPA schedule requires us to modify ESA milestones 2 and 3, given the dependencies between the MMPA and ESA.  As such, ESA milestone 2 has been pushed back to be no more than 30 days ahead of the planned publication of the proposed MMPA ITA.  EFH milestone 2 has been shifted to be concurrent with ESA milestone 2.  ESA and EFH milestones 3 are set at 150 and 90 days, respectively, from milestone 2.  
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ITA Application Submitted (Applicant Action) --- --- --- No
NOAA Determines ITA Application is Complete (Applicant Action) 08-30-2022 08-30-2022 --- No
Publish Notice of Receipt in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 09-07-2022 09-07-2022 --- No
Publish Proposed ITA in Federal Register (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 03-07-2023 --- No
Publish Final ITA Regulations in Federal Register (LOA Only) (Agency Action) 12-27-2023 12-27-2023 --- No
ITA decision rendered (Agency Action) 01-26-2024 01-26-2024 --- No