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Permitting Action Modification History

Complete
N/A
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ESA Consultation Request Package Submitted (Agency Action) 09-23-2022 10-21-2022 --- Yes
NOAA determines ESA Consultation Package is Complete - Formal (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 05-05-2023 06-10-2024 Yes
ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) 08-04-2023 08-04-2023 11-07-2024 Yes
In Progress
N/A
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ESA Consultation Request Package Submitted (Agency Action) 09-23-2022 10-21-2022 --- Yes
NOAA determines ESA Consultation Package is Complete - Formal (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 05-05-2023 06-10-2024 Yes
ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) 08-04-2023 08-04-2023 11-07-2024 No
Planned
BOEM used the information in the revised ITA application to prepare and submit a revised Biological Assessment (BA) to NMFS on February 2, 2024. Initiation of ESA consultation will occur 2 weeks prior to publication of the proposed MMPA ITA rule as NMFS anticipates that a complete ESA consultation request package (consisting of a complete BA from BOEM and the MMPA Proposed Rule) will be available by this time.
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ESA Consultation Request Package Submitted (Agency Action) 09-23-2022 10-21-2022 --- Yes
NOAA determines ESA Consultation Package is Complete - Formal (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 05-05-2023 06-10-2024 No
ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) 08-04-2023 08-04-2023 11-07-2024 No
Planned
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.   BOEM delay in providing an updated BA and EFH Assessment resulted in the need to extend the final two milestones for both ESA and EFH. 
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ESA Consultation Request Package Submitted (Agency Action) 09-23-2022 10-21-2022 --- Yes
NOAA determines ESA Consultation Package is Complete - Formal (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 05-05-2023 --- No
ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) 08-04-2023 08-04-2023 --- No
Planned
Updated milestone reflects delay caused by late LOA submission and the delay in finalizing alternatives
Milestone Original Target Date Current Target Date Alternative Completion Date Milestone Complete?
ESA Consultation Request Package Submitted (Agency Action) 09-23-2022 10-21-2022 --- Yes
NOAA determines ESA Consultation Package is Complete - Formal (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 04-19-2023 --- No
ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) 08-04-2023 08-04-2023 --- No
Planned
NMFS modified our milestone dates in July, 2022.  This modification was mainly driven by the MMPA schedule being pushed back due to applicant delay in providing the complete ITA application.  The shift in the MMPA schedule required 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?
ESA Consultation Request Package Submitted (Agency Action) 09-23-2022 10-21-2022 --- Yes
NOAA determines ESA Consultation Package is Complete - Formal (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 03-07-2023 --- No
ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) 08-04-2023 08-04-2023 --- 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?
ESA Consultation Request Package Submitted (Agency Action) 09-23-2022 10-21-2022 --- No
NOAA determines ESA Consultation Package is Complete - Formal (Agency Action) 03-07-2023 03-07-2023 --- No
ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) 08-04-2023 08-04-2023 --- No