Milestone Extension: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, Section 305 Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Consulta
Approved
Milestone Extension: Endangered Species Act Consultation (NOAA-NMFS)
On January 27, NOAA notified BOEM that the information necessary to initiate consultation was missing from the December 2022 BA. NOAA requested that BOEM provide that information by February 27 so that it could be reviewed before the March 13 milestone date. On February 8, BOEM informed NOAA that they would not be able to provide the information until after February 27 and requested that the milestone date be moved back by 30 days to April 12, 2023. This also requires ESA milestone #3 to be delayed by 30 days in order to allow for the 150 days for NOAA to review and conclu
Milestone Extension: Section 106 Review
The Section 106 consultation process is delayed for two reasons. First, there have been multiple changes to the terrestrial area of potential effect (APE) for the Section 106 consultation.
Milestone Extension: Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
BOEM requests an extension of completion dates for its NEPA action based on the following: (1) several updates to the Project Sponsor’s Project Design Envelope and COP; (2) the addition of a connected action to the EIS; (3) the Project Sponsor’s need to provide additional acoustic modeling information, which then needed to be incorporated into the EIS th
Milestone Extension: Construction and Operations Plan
Several revisions to the Empire Wind COP and Project Design Envelope (PDE) have extended the length of the COP sufficiency review process beyond the initial DEIS publication milestone of August 5, 2022. Empire Wind submitted its most recent changes to its PDE and COP Volume 1 on April 4, 2022. The revised COP Volume 2 and responses to BOEM’s latest round of sufficiency review comments were then filed May 16, 2022. Finally, updates to several COP appendices and the acoustic modeling data were filed in mid-June 2022.
FAST-41 Missed Date:Endangered Species Act Consultation (DOI-FWS): ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action)
Triggered missed date from extending ESA Consultation Concludes (Agency Action) within 30 days of its current target date which was 03/31/2023 and extended to 05/14/2023
Milestone Extension: Section 408 Permit
Due to updates to BOEM's schedule, all 408 milestone dates were adjusted to line up with the new dates
FAST-41 Missed Date:Section 408 Permit: Completeness Determination (Agency Action)
Triggered missed date from extending Completeness Determination (Agency Action) within 30 days of its current target date which was 03/24/2023 and extended to 04/26/2024
Milestone Extension: Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 Clean Water Act
The Target Completion date is being changed as per overall changes in BOEM's schedule. The Corps' milestone is dependent on the BOEM ROD date, which also changed
FAST-41 Missed Date:Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 Clean Water Act: Publication of Public Notice (Agency Action)
Triggered missed date from extending Publication of Public Notice (Agency Action) within 30 days of its current target date which was 03/24/2023 and extended to 04/26/2024