Notice of Availability of a Joint Record of Decision (ROD) for the South Fork Wind, LLC Proposed Wind Energy Facility Offshore Rhode Island, 67969-67970 [2021-26040]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
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[Docket No. BOEM–2021–0084]
Notice of Availability of a Joint Record
of Decision (ROD) for the South Fork
Wind, LLC Proposed Wind Energy
Facility Offshore Rhode Island
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), Interior; National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS),
Commerce.
AGENCY:
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Notice of availability (NOA);
record of decision (ROD).
ACTION:
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond; including through
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
BOEM announces the
availability of the joint ROD on the final
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for the construction and operations plan
(COP) submitted by South Fork Wind,
LLC (South Fork Wind). The joint ROD
includes the decisions of the
Department of the Interior (DOI) and
NMFS regarding the South Fork Wind
COP. NMFS has adopted the Final EIS
to support its decision to issue an
incidental take authorization under the
Marine Mammal Protection Act. The
joint ROD concludes the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
process for each agency and is available
with associated information on BOEM’s
website at: https://www.boem.gov/
renewable-energy/state-activities/southfork.
SUMMARY:
For
information on the South Fork Wind
Offshore Wind Energy Project ROD,
please contact: BOEM—Michelle Morin,
BOEM Office of Renewable Energy
Programs, 45600 Woodland Road,
Sterling, Virginia 20166, (703) 787–
1722, or michelle.morin@boem.gov; For
information related to NMFS’ action,
contact Candace Nachman, NOAA
Fisheries Office of Policy, (301) 427–
8031, candace.nachman@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: South
Fork Wind seeks approval to construct,
operate, maintain, and eventually
decommission the Project—a wind
energy facility on the Outer Continental
Shelf (OCS) offshore Rhode Island and
an associated export cable. The Project
would be developed within the range of
design parameters outlined in the South
Fork Wind COP, subject to applicable
mitigation measures. The COP for the
South Fork Wind Farm (SFWF)
proposed the installation of up to 15
wind turbine generators with a
nameplate capacity of 6 to 12 megawatts
per turbine, submarine cables between
the wind turbine generators (inter-array
cables), and an offshore substation. The
SFWF would be located entirely on the
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OCS in the area covered by Renewable
Energy Lease OCS–A 0517 (Lease Area),
approximately 19 miles southeast of
Block Island, Rhode Island, and 35
miles east of Montauk Point, New York.
The South Fork Export Cable (SFEC)
would be an alternating current electric
cable that would connect the SFWF to
the existing mainland electric grid in
East Hampton, New York. The Project
also would include an operations and
maintenance facility located onshore at
either Montauk in East Hampton, New
York, or Quonset Point in North
Kingstown, Rhode Island, and the SFEC
will connect with the Long Island Power
Authority electric transmission and
distribution system in the town of East
Hampton, New York. After carefully
considering alternatives described and
analyzed in the Final EIS and comments
from the public on the Draft EIS, the
Department of the Interior has decided
to approve the COP for South Fork
Wind under the Fisheries Habitat
Impact Minimization Alternative, which
will allow 12 or fewer turbines and one
offshore substation to be installed by
South Fork Wind. The full text of the
mitigation, monitoring, and reporting
requirements, which will be included in
BOEM’s COP approval, are available in
the ROD, which is available on BOEM’s
website at: https://www.boem.gov/
renewable-energy/state-activities/southfork.
NMFS has decided to adopt, in part,
BOEM’s Final EIS and issue a final
Incidental Harassment Authorization
(IHA) to South Fork Wind. NMFS’ final
decision to issue the requested IHA is
documented in a separate Decision
Memorandum prepared in accordance
with internal NMFS policy and
procedures. The IHA authorizes the
incidental take of marine mammals
while prescribing the means of
incidental take as well as mitigation and
monitoring requirements, including
those mandated by the Biological
Opinion issued to complete the formal
Endangered Species Act Section 7
consultation process. A Notice of
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Issuance of the final IHA will be
published in the Federal Register.
Authority: This Notice of Availability
is published in accordance with
regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508)
implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
William Yancey Brown,
Chief Environmental Officer, Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management.
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Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact for
Aquatic Habitat Restoration in the Rio
Grande Canalization Project, Sierra
and Don˜a Ana Counties, New Mexico
and El Paso County, Texas
United States Section,
International Boundary and Water
Commission, United States and Mexico
(USIBWC).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The USIBWC hereby gives
notice that the Final Environmental
Assessment (EA) and Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI) for Aquatic
Habitat Restoration in the Rio Grande
Canalization Project, Sierra and Don˜a
Ana Counties, New Mexico and El Paso
County, Texas is available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Verdecchia, Natural Resources
Specialist, USIBWC, El Paso, Texas
79902. Telephone: (915) 832–4701, Fax:
(915) 493–2428, email:
Elizabeth.Verdecchia@ibwc.gov.
Availability: The electronic version of
the Final EA and FONSI is available at
the USIBWC web page: https://
www.ibwc.gov/EMD/EIS_EA_Public_
Comment.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 4,
2009, the USIBWC issued a Record of
Decision (ROD) on the long-term
management of the Rio Grande
Canalization Project (RGCP) in southern
New Mexico and western Texas. The
ROD committed the USIBWC to the
restoration of aquatic and riparian
habitat at up to 30 sites over 10 years
(through 2019). In May 2019, USIBWC
prepared a Draft EA to analyze the
potential impact of seven action
alternatives and a No Action Alternative
to implement aquatic habitat within the
RGCP. After extensive public input and
subsequent development of preliminary
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designs, USIBWC re-evaluated
alternative sites for aquatic habitat and
assessed the feasibility of three
additional sites, two of which were
added to the EA.
In February 2021, USIBWC prepared
an Amended Draft EA, which evaluated
the potential impacts on natural,
cultural and other resources of ten
alternatives, including the No Action
Alternative. Restoration actions could
include invasive vegetation removal,
native vegetation planting, overbank
lowering, bank cuts, natural levee
breaches, secondary channels, bank
destabilization, channel widening,
arroyo mouth management, construction
of inset floodplains, construction of
wetland depressions, and use of
supplemental water for on-site
irrigation. A Draft Amended FONSI was
prepared for five Preferred Alternatives
which USIBWC modified from the
previous Draft EA based on public
input.
The Final five Preferred Alternatives
target creation or enhancement of a total
of 11.6 acres of aquatic features and 18.8
acres of riparian habitat. They include
two simpler sites, Broad Canyon Arroyo,
which could be constructed from
conceptual designs, and Montoya
Intercepting Drain Option A, which
would be part of the Sunland Park East
Levee construction; two complex sites
requiring engineering designs and
stakeholder agreements prior
construction, Las Cruces Effluent and
Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park; and
one site to be used as part of
compensatory mitigation for future
levee construction, Downstream of
Courchesne Bridge.
Permits would be required from the
United States Army Corps of Engineers
for dredge and fill of Waters of the
United States, per the Clean Water Act
Sections 404 and 401. USIBWC would
compensate increased water
consumption through a variety of
mechanisms, including acquiring water
rights, negotiating agreements with the
stakeholders, and obtaining appropriate
State of New Mexico permits and
Department of Justice approvals.
Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969, the Council on
Environmental Quality Final
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through
1508), and the USIBWC Operational
Procedures for Implementing Section
102 of NEPA, published in the Federal
Register September 2, 1981, potential
impacts on natural, cultural, and other
resources were evaluated. A Finding of
No Significant Impact has been
prepared for the Preferred Alternatives
based on a review of the facts and
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analyses contained in the EA. An
environmental impact statement will
not be prepared unless additional
information which may affect this
decision is brought to our attention
within 30 days from the date of this
Notice.
Jennifer Pena,
Chief Legal Counsel, International Boundary
and Water Commission, United States
Section.
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Following receipt on October
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Trade Representative (USTR), under
section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
the U.S. International Trade
Commission (Commission) instituted
Investigation No. 332–587,
Distributional Effects of Trade and
Trade Policy on U.S. Workers, for the
purpose of conducting a two-part
investigation, with the Commission in
part one to provide a public report that
catalogues information on the
distributional effects on underrepresented and under-served
communities of trade and trade policy,
and with the Commission in part two to
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capabilities so that future probable
economic effects advice includes
estimates of the potential distributional
effects of trade and trade policy,
including goods and services imports,
on U.S. workers. In preparing its public
report, the USTR asked the Commission
to gather information through
roundtable discussions among
representatives of under-represented
and under-served communities, and
through a symposium focused on
academic or similar research on the
distributional effects on underrepresented and under-served
communities of trade and trade policy.
The Commission will also hold a public
hearing following the roundtables and
symposium. The Commission will issue
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM-2021-0084]
Notice of Availability of a Joint Record of Decision (ROD) for
the South Fork Wind, LLC Proposed Wind Energy Facility Offshore Rhode
Island
AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior; National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability (NOA); record of decision (ROD).
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SUMMARY: BOEM announces the availability of the joint ROD on the final
environmental impact statement (EIS) for the construction and
operations plan (COP) submitted by South Fork Wind, LLC (South Fork
Wind). The joint ROD includes the decisions of the Department of the
Interior (DOI) and NMFS regarding the South Fork Wind COP. NMFS has
adopted the Final EIS to support its decision to issue an incidental
take authorization under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The joint
ROD concludes the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for
each agency and is available with associated information on BOEM's
website at: https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/south-fork.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the South Fork Wind
Offshore Wind Energy Project ROD, please contact: BOEM--Michelle Morin,
BOEM Office of Renewable Energy Programs, 45600 Woodland Road,
Sterling, Virginia 20166, (703) 787-1722, or [email protected];
For information related to NMFS' action, contact Candace Nachman, NOAA
Fisheries Office of Policy, (301) 427-8031, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: South Fork Wind seeks approval to construct,
operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the Project--a wind
energy facility on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Rhode
Island and an associated export cable. The Project would be developed
within the range of design parameters outlined in the South Fork Wind
COP, subject to applicable mitigation measures. The COP for the South
Fork Wind Farm (SFWF) proposed the installation of up to 15 wind
turbine generators with a nameplate capacity of 6 to 12 megawatts per
turbine, submarine cables between the wind turbine generators (inter-
array cables), and an offshore substation. The SFWF would be located
entirely on the OCS in the area covered by Renewable Energy Lease OCS-A
0517 (Lease Area), approximately 19 miles southeast of Block Island,
Rhode Island, and 35 miles east of Montauk Point, New York. The South
Fork Export Cable (SFEC) would be an alternating current electric cable
that would connect the SFWF to the existing mainland electric grid in
East Hampton, New York. The Project also would include an operations
and maintenance facility located onshore at either Montauk in East
Hampton, New York, or Quonset Point in North Kingstown, Rhode Island,
and the SFEC will connect with the Long Island Power Authority electric
transmission and distribution system in the town of East Hampton, New
York. After carefully considering alternatives described and analyzed
in the Final EIS and comments from the public on the Draft EIS, the
Department of the Interior has decided to approve the COP for South
Fork Wind under the Fisheries Habitat Impact Minimization Alternative,
which will allow 12 or fewer turbines and one offshore substation to be
installed by South Fork Wind. The full text of the mitigation,
monitoring, and reporting requirements, which will be included in
BOEM's COP approval, are available in the ROD, which is available on
BOEM's website at: https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/south-fork.
NMFS has decided to adopt, in part, BOEM's Final EIS and issue a
final Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to South Fork Wind.
NMFS' final decision to issue the requested IHA is documented in a
separate Decision Memorandum prepared in accordance with internal NMFS
policy and procedures. The IHA authorizes the incidental take of marine
mammals while prescribing the means of incidental take as well as
mitigation and monitoring requirements, including those mandated by the
Biological Opinion issued to complete the formal Endangered Species Act
Section 7 consultation process. A Notice of
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Issuance of the final IHA will be published in the Federal Register.
Authority: This Notice of Availability is published in accordance
with regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-1508) implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
William Yancey Brown,
Chief Environmental Officer, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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