FAST-41 Missed Date:Section 106 Review: Consultation initiated with SHPO/THPO (Agency Action)
Agency Milestone Date of 08/31/2023 for Consultation initiated with SHPO/THPO (Agency Action) has passed by 1 business days
Approved
Milestone Extension: Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Air Permit
EPA deemed the Project Sponsor’s OCS air permit application complete on April 20, 2023. Accordingly, the requested final completion date for the OCS air permit action is April 22, 2024 (due to weekend).
Milestone Extension: Construction and Operations Plan
Additional information required of, and provided by, the Project Sponsor results in a delay of slightly more than one month in the development of the DEIS, and cascading delays in the FEIS and ROD.
Milestone Extension: Section 408 Permit
Additional information required of, and provided by, the Project Sponsor results in a delay of slightly more than one month in the development of the DEIS, and cascading delays in the FEIS and ROD. BOEM prepared a draft EIS based on the COP updates available in November 2022 and completed a cooperating agency review of the partial DEIS in June 2023.
Milestone Extension: Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 Clean Water Act
Additional information required of, and provided by, the Project Sponsor results in a delay of slightly more than one month in the development of the DEIS, and cascading delays in the FEIS and ROD. BOEM prepared a draft EIS based on the COP updates available in November 2022 and completed a cooperating agency review of the partial DEIS in June 2023. The Project Sponsor submitted a COP update in Nov 2022 and an additional COP update in July 2023.
Milestone Extension: Section 106 Review
Additional information required of, and provided by, the Project Sponsor results in a delay of slightly more than one month in the development of the DEIS, and cascading delays in the FEIS and ROD.
Milestone Extension: Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) Incidental Take Authorization (DOC – NOAA/NMFS)
On 6/27/23 BOEM provided a revised EIS schedule to all cooperating agencies, which extended the EIS schedule approximately one month. The MMPA final regulations cannot be published in the Federal Register until after the ROD, the MMPA schedule is being revised to be in alignment with the new EIS/ROD schedule consistent with the Offshore Wind nominal timeline.
FAST-41 Missed Date:Section 106 Review: Consultation initiated with SHPO/THPO (Agency Action)
Agency Milestone Date of 08/01/2023 for Consultation initiated with SHPO/THPO (Agency Action) has passed by 1 business days
Milestone Extension: Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) Incidental Take Authorization (DOC – NOAA/NMFS)
General Counsel informed NMFS that an additional week is needed for their review and clearance of the final ITA regulations for publication in the Federal Register. The final two milestones have been extended to allow this additional time for review. The applicant was informed of the extension and has no concerns with the MMPA milestone revisions.
Milestone Extension: Section 404 Clean Water Act
A detailed justification and information on consultation with the affected cooperating agencies and project sponsor are included in Commission staff’s request for Executive Director determination submitted to FPISC-OED via email. Because the Commission’s milestone target dates, including those for issuance of the draft and final NEPA documents, are being modified to account for the additional time needed for the