Joint Record of Decision for the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Vineyard Wind 1 Offshore Wind Energy Project; Notice of Availability of Record of Decision Supplements, 50120 [2022-17424]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM–2021–0036]
Joint Record of Decision for the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Vineyard Wind 1 Offshore Wind
Energy Project; Notice of Availability
of Record of Decision Supplements
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; record of
decision (ROD) supplements.
AGENCY:
BOEM announces the
availability of two supplements to the
joint ROD on the final environmental
impact statement (FEIS) for the
construction and operations plan (COP)
submitted by Vineyard Wind 1 LLC
(Vineyard Wind 1). The joint ROD
included the decisions of the
Department of the Interior (DOI), the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE),
and the National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS) regarding the Vineyard
Wind 1 Offshore Wind Energy Project.
In the joint ROD, the USACE adopted
the FEIS to support its permitting
actions under the Rivers and Harbors
Act of 1899 (RHA) and Clean Water Act
(CWA). The ROD supplements pertain
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only to the USACE sections of the joint
ROD. They correct clerical errors and
clarify a statement. The ROD
supplements are available on BOEM’s
website at https://www.boem.gov/
Vineyard-Wind.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jessica Stromberg, Acting Chief,
Environment Branch for Renewable
Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, 45600 Woodland Road,
VAM–OREP Sterling, Virginia 20166,
(703) 787–1730, or jessica.stromberg@
boem.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Vineyard
Wind 1 plans to construct, operate,
maintain, and eventually decommission
an 800-megawatt wind energy facility
on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore
Massachusetts (the Project). The Project
and associated export cables would be
developed within the range of design
parameters outlined in the Vineyard
Wind 1 COP, subject to applicable
mitigation measures. The Project is
located approximately 14 miles
southeast of Martha’s Vineyard and a
similar distance southwest of
Nantucket. The approved COP allows
the installation of up to 84 wind turbine
generators (WTGs) and one or two
offshore substations or electrical service
platforms. The WTGs would be located
in water depths ranging from
approximately 37 to 49 meters (121 to
161 feet). The approved COP proposed
one export cable landfall near the town
of Barnstable, Massachusetts, and
onshore construction and staging at the
New Bedford Marine Commerce
Terminal.
As documented in the joint ROD, after
carefully considering the FEIS
alternatives, including comments from
the public on the draft and
supplemental EISs, DOI decided to
approve the COP for Vineyard Wind 1,
NMFS decided to adopt BOEM’s FEIS
and issue a final incidental harassment
authorization to Vineyard Wind 1, and
USACE decided to adopt BOEM’s FEIS
and issue a Department of the Army
(DA) permit pursuant to section 404 of
the CWA (33 U.S.C. 1344) and section
10 of the RHA (33 U.S.C. 403). The DA
permit authorizes Vineyard Wind 1 to
discharge fill below the high tide line of
waters of the United States and to
perform work and place structures
below the mean high-water mark of
navigable waters of the United States.
Subsequent to the issuance of the
joint ROD and prior to the issuance of
the DA permit, USACE issued a ROD
supplement correcting several clerical
errors regarding the Project’s offshore
export cable corridor length and the
total acreage of transmission-cable scour
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protection to be authorized under the
DA permit.
Following the issuance of the DA
permit, USACE issued a second ROD
supplement. That supplement corrected
a clerical error that had resulted in a
portion of USACE’s public interest
determination being cut off midsentence and clarified an incorrect
statement in the ‘‘General Public
Interest Review’’ section of the USACE
portion of the joint ROD.
The USACE portion of the joint ROD
included this incorrect statement:
‘‘While Vineyard Wind is not
authorized to prevent free access to the
entire wind development area, due to
the placement of the turbines it is likely
that the entire 75,614 acre area will be
abandoned by commercial fisheries due
to difficulties with navigation.’’ The
second ROD supplement clarified that
this statement was based solely upon
comments of interested parties
submitted to BOEM during the public
comment period for the draft
environmental impact statement as
summarized in appendix K to the FEIS.
The statement was not based upon any
separate or independent USACE or
other agency evaluation or study.
Accordingly, the statement does not
represent the USACE position regarding
the accessibility of the wind
development area to commercial
fisheries due to difficulties of navigation
that may or may not result from the
placement of the WTGs.
Both ROD supplements are available
on BOEM’s website at https://
www.boem.gov/Vineyard-Wind.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; 40
CFR parts 1500–1508.
William Yancey Brown,
Chief Environmental Officer, Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM-2021-0036]
Joint Record of Decision for the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Vineyard Wind 1 Offshore Wind Energy Project; Notice
of Availability of Record of Decision Supplements
AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; record of decision (ROD) supplements.
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SUMMARY: BOEM announces the availability of two supplements to the
joint ROD on the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for the
construction and operations plan (COP) submitted by Vineyard Wind 1 LLC
(Vineyard Wind 1). The joint ROD included the decisions of the
Department of the Interior (DOI), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE), and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) regarding the
Vineyard Wind 1 Offshore Wind Energy Project. In the joint ROD, the
USACE adopted the FEIS to support its permitting actions under the
Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (RHA) and Clean Water Act (CWA). The ROD
supplements pertain only to the USACE sections of the joint ROD. They
correct clerical errors and clarify a statement. The ROD supplements
are available on BOEM's website at https://www.boem.gov/Vineyard-Wind.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jessica Stromberg, Acting Chief,
Environment Branch for Renewable Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, 45600 Woodland Road, VAM-OREP Sterling, Virginia 20166,
(703) 787-1730, or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Vineyard Wind 1 plans to construct, operate,
maintain, and eventually decommission an 800-megawatt wind energy
facility on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore Massachusetts (the
Project). The Project and associated export cables would be developed
within the range of design parameters outlined in the Vineyard Wind 1
COP, subject to applicable mitigation measures. The Project is located
approximately 14 miles southeast of Martha's Vineyard and a similar
distance southwest of Nantucket. The approved COP allows the
installation of up to 84 wind turbine generators (WTGs) and one or two
offshore substations or electrical service platforms. The WTGs would be
located in water depths ranging from approximately 37 to 49 meters (121
to 161 feet). The approved COP proposed one export cable landfall near
the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, and onshore construction and
staging at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal.
As documented in the joint ROD, after carefully considering the
FEIS alternatives, including comments from the public on the draft and
supplemental EISs, DOI decided to approve the COP for Vineyard Wind 1,
NMFS decided to adopt BOEM's FEIS and issue a final incidental
harassment authorization to Vineyard Wind 1, and USACE decided to adopt
BOEM's FEIS and issue a Department of the Army (DA) permit pursuant to
section 404 of the CWA (33 U.S.C. 1344) and section 10 of the RHA (33
U.S.C. 403). The DA permit authorizes Vineyard Wind 1 to discharge fill
below the high tide line of waters of the United States and to perform
work and place structures below the mean high-water mark of navigable
waters of the United States.
Subsequent to the issuance of the joint ROD and prior to the
issuance of the DA permit, USACE issued a ROD supplement correcting
several clerical errors regarding the Project's offshore export cable
corridor length and the total acreage of transmission-cable scour
protection to be authorized under the DA permit.
Following the issuance of the DA permit, USACE issued a second ROD
supplement. That supplement corrected a clerical error that had
resulted in a portion of USACE's public interest determination being
cut off mid-sentence and clarified an incorrect statement in the
``General Public Interest Review'' section of the USACE portion of the
joint ROD.
The USACE portion of the joint ROD included this incorrect
statement: ``While Vineyard Wind is not authorized to prevent free
access to the entire wind development area, due to the placement of the
turbines it is likely that the entire 75,614 acre area will be
abandoned by commercial fisheries due to difficulties with
navigation.'' The second ROD supplement clarified that this statement
was based solely upon comments of interested parties submitted to BOEM
during the public comment period for the draft environmental impact
statement as summarized in appendix K to the FEIS. The statement was
not based upon any separate or independent USACE or other agency
evaluation or study. Accordingly, the statement does not represent the
USACE position regarding the accessibility of the wind development area
to commercial fisheries due to difficulties of navigation that may or
may not result from the placement of the WTGs.
Both ROD supplements are available on BOEM's website at https://www.boem.gov/Vineyard-Wind.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; 40 CFR parts 1500-1508.
William Yancey Brown,
Chief Environmental Officer, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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