Notice of Final Federal Agency Action on the Authorization for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project, 24809-24810 [2024-07470]
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Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of limitation on claims
for judicial review of actions by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
AGENCY:
USACE announces final
agency action on the USACE
authorization for the proposed
construction and maintenance of the
Empire Wind 1 project offshore New
York. USACE has issued a permit
authorizing the construction and
maintenance of the Empire Wind 1
project under section 10 of the Rivers
and Harbors Act of 1899 (RHA), section
404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), and
section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act
of 1899. The Empire Wind 1 project is
a ‘‘covered project’’ under title 41 of the
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation
Act.
DATES: A claim seeking judicial review
of the USACE authorization of
construction and maintenance of the
Empire Wind 1 project will be barred
unless the claim is filed not later than
two years after this notice’s publication
date. If the Federal law that allows for
judicial review of the USACE
authorization specifies a shorter time
period for filing such a claim, then that
shorter time period will apply.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Christopher Minck, Regulatory Project
Manager, Regulatory Branch, USACE,
New York District, 26 Federal Plaza,
New York, New York 10278, (917) 790–
8511 or cenan.publicnotice@
usace.army.mil.
SUMMARY:
Notice is
hereby given that USACE has taken final
agency action on its authorization for
the proposed Empire Wind 1 project by
issuing a permit authorizing
construction and maintenance of the
project under section 10 of the RHA,
section 404 of the CWA, and section 14
of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.
The majority of the authorized work
will occur in the Atlantic Ocean within
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
(BOEM) Renewable Energy Lease Area
OCS–0512, which is approximately 14
miles south of Long Island, New York
and approximately 19.5 miles east of
Long Branch, New Jersey.
The work authorized under the
USACE permit includes the following:
(1) installation of up to fifty-seven (57)
wind turbine generators (WTGs) and
one (1) offshore substation (OSS) with
associated scour protection, (2)
installation of approximately 116
nautical miles of inter-array cables
connecting the WTGs and the OSS with
associated secondary cable protection,
(3) installation of up to 2 export
transmission cables with associated
secondary cable protection within an
approximately 40 nautical mile long
offshore export cable corridor extending
from the lease area to the cable landfall
location at the South Brooklyn Marine
Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, and
(4) bulkhead and shoreline replacement
activities at the cable landfall location.
The USACE’s decision to issue a
permit for the Empire Wind 1 project,
and the laws under which the action
was taken, are described in the Empire
Wind Final Environmental Impact
Statement (FEIS) published by BOEM
on September 15, 2023, in the BOEM
Record of Decision (ROD) issued on
November 21, 2023, and in other project
records. The FEIS, ROD, and other
documents can be viewed and
downloaded from the BOEM project
website at https://www.boem.gov/
renewable-energy/state-activities/
empire-wind. The USACE permit can be
viewed and downloaded from the
USACE website at https://
www.nan.usace.army.mil/Missions/
Regulatory/Commonly-RequestedIssued-Permits-and-Nationwide-PermitVerifications/. By this notice, USACE is
advising the public of final agency
action subject to 42 U.S.C. 4370m–
6(a)(1)(A).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4370m–
6(a)(1)(A).
John P. Lloyd,
Brigadier General, USA, Commanding.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers
[DA Permit No. NAO–2013–00418 and
Section 408 Request ID No. 408–NAO–2022–
0056]
Notice of Final Federal Agency Action
on the Authorization for the Coastal
Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial
Project
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
AGENCY:
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Notice of limitation on claims
for judicial review of actions by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
ACTION:
USACE announces final
agency action on the USACE
authorization for the proposed
construction and maintenance of the
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW)
Commercial Project offshore Virginia.
USACE has issued a permit authorizing
the construction and maintenance of the
CVOW Project under sections 10 and 14
of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899
(RHA) and section 404 of the Clean
Water Act (CWA). The CVOW Project is
a ‘‘covered project’’ under Title 41 of the
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation
Act.
DATES: A claim seeking judicial review
of the USACE authorization of
construction and maintenance of the
CVOW Project will be barred unless the
claim is filed not later than two years
after this notice’s publication date. If the
Federal law that allows for judicial
review of the USACE authorization
specifies a shorter time period for filing
such a claim, then that shorter time
period will apply.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nicole Woodward, Regulatory Project
Manager, Regulatory Branch, USACE,
Norfolk District, 803 Front Street,
Norfolk, Virginia 23510, (757) 201–
7122, or nicole.l.woodward@
usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
hereby given that USACE has taken final
agency action on its authorization for
the proposed CVOW Project by issuing
a permit authorizing construction and
maintenance of the Project under
sections 10 and 14 of the RHA and
section 404 of the CWA. The authorized
work will occur within the Atlantic
Ocean off the coast of Virginia at the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay within the
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
(BOEM) Lease Area No. OCS–A–0483,
extending along an offshore cable
corridor to a point on the shore at the
Virginia State Military Reservation
(SMR) in Virginia Beach, Virginia, then
extending along an onshore utility
corridor within the cities of Virginia
Beach and Chesapeake, Virginia.
The offshore portion of the project
will include the installation of one
hundred seventy-six (176) 14.7 MW
wind turbine generators (WTGs) located
within a 112,799-acre lease area
approximately 27 miles off the Virginia
Beach, Virginia coastline.
Approximately 180-foot maximum
diameter of stone scour protection will
be installed around the WTGs. The
project will also include the
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construction of three (3) offshore
substations (OSS) with approximately
0.95 acres of scour protection, and
approximately 229 miles of 660-kilovolt
(kV) inter-array cables. In addition, nine
(9) buried 230 kV offshore export cables
will extend from the lease area to the
onshore cable landing area. The offshore
export cables will cross Cells 2 and 5 of
the Dam Neck Ocean Disposal Site
(DNODS) and three (3) existing fiber
optic, in-service telecommunications
cables; twenty-seven (27) 39.5-foot-long
by 9-foot-wide by 0.5-foot-tall bottom
protection concrete mattresses and
twenty-seven (27) 138-foot-long by 9foot-wide by 0.5-foot-tall top protection
concrete mattresses will be installed to
protect the proposed offshore export
cables at these locations. Nine (9)
temporary cofferdams will be installed
at the nearshore trenchless installation
punch-out locations to facilitate
lowering the direct pipe within the
transition zones where the offshore
export cables exit the sea floor. If it is
determined that the use of cofferdams is
not feasible during construction, then
nine (9) 82-foot-long by 6.6-foot-wide by
1-foot-high concrete mattresses will be
installed above the transition zones as
added cable protection. In addition, up
to 108 temporary steel pipe piles may be
installed along the HDD pipe alignments
to act as ‘‘goal-posts’’ to the punch-out
locations during construction.
Prior to construction, the offshore
project area will be surveyed using a
remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with a
suction pump attachment to identify
potential munitions and explosives of
concern (MEC) and unexploded
ordnance (UXO) targets that cannot be
avoided. The proposed mitigation of
MEC/UXO for the project is limited to
relocation via ‘‘lift and shift’’ measures.
The Permittee does not intend to
conduct deflagration or detonation of
MEC/UXO. It is anticipated that an
average disturbance of 161.5 square feet
of ocean bottom per mitigation of one
MEC/UXO will be required as detailed
in the MEC/UXO Disposition Plan and
MEC/UXO Identification Survey
Reports.
The onshore portion of the project
will begin where the offshore export
cables come onshore at the cable
landing location at the State Military
Reservation (SMR) in Virginia Beach,
Virginia. The cables will then transition
to nine (9) underground 230 kV onshore
export cables, which will extend
underground approximately 4.4 miles
from the SMR to the proposed Harpers
Switching Station located on Naval Air
Station Oceana. From the Harpers
Switching Station, the onshore export
cables will transition to overhead
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interconnection cables and extend
approximately 14.2 miles along new,
existing, and expanded right-of-way
corridors to the existing Fentress
Substation in Chesapeake, Virginia. The
onshore work will result in permanent
impacts to approximately 1.70 acres of
palustrine emergent wetlands, 0.68
acres of palustrine scrub/shrub
wetlands, 7.98 acres of palustrine
forested wetlands, and 153 linear feet of
stream, and the conversion of
approximately 29.70 acres of palustrine
forested wetlands to palustrine scrub/
shrub wetlands, and temporary impacts
to approximately 0.38 acres of
palustrine scrub/shrub and 25.46 acres
of palustrine emergent wetlands.
The USACE’s decision to issue a
permit, and the laws under which the
action was taken, are described in the
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind
Commercial Project Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)
published on September, 29, 2023, in
the Record of Decision (ROD) issued on
January 29, 2024, and in other project
records. The FEIS and other documents
can be viewed and downloaded from
the BOEM project website at https://
www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/CVOW-C. The USACE permit
and ROD can be viewed and
downloaded from the USACE website at
https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/
Missions/Regulatory/Offshore-WindProjects/. By this notice, USACE is
advising the public of final agency
action subject to 42 U.S.C. 4370m–
6(a)(1)(A).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4370m–
6(a)(1)(A).
John P. Lloyd,
Brigadier General, USA, Commanding.
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Notice of Final Federal Agency Action
on the Authorization for the South Fork
Wind Energy Project Offshore New
York and Rhode Island
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of limitation on claims
for judicial review of actions by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
AGENCY:
USACE announces final
agency action on the USACE
authorization for the proposed
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers
[DA Permit No. NAO-2013-00418 and Section 408 Request ID No. 408-NAO-
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Notice of Final Federal Agency Action on the Authorization for
the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
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SUMMARY: USACE announces final agency action on the USACE authorization
for the proposed construction and maintenance of the Coastal Virginia
Offshore Wind (CVOW) Commercial Project offshore Virginia. USACE has
issued a permit authorizing the construction and maintenance of the
CVOW Project under sections 10 and 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of
1899 (RHA) and section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The CVOW
Project is a ``covered project'' under Title 41 of the Fixing America's
Surface Transportation Act.
DATES: A claim seeking judicial review of the USACE authorization of
construction and maintenance of the CVOW Project will be barred unless
the claim is filed not later than two years after this notice's
publication date. If the Federal law that allows for judicial review of
the USACE authorization specifies a shorter time period for filing such
a claim, then that shorter time period will apply.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicole Woodward, Regulatory Project
Manager, Regulatory Branch, USACE, Norfolk District, 803 Front Street,
Norfolk, Virginia 23510, (757) 201-7122, or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that USACE has taken
final agency action on its authorization for the proposed CVOW Project
by issuing a permit authorizing construction and maintenance of the
Project under sections 10 and 14 of the RHA and section 404 of the CWA.
The authorized work will occur within the Atlantic Ocean off the coast
of Virginia at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay within the Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Lease Area No. OCS-A-0483, extending
along an offshore cable corridor to a point on the shore at the
Virginia State Military Reservation (SMR) in Virginia Beach, Virginia,
then extending along an onshore utility corridor within the cities of
Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, Virginia.
The offshore portion of the project will include the installation
of one hundred seventy-six (176) 14.7 MW wind turbine generators (WTGs)
located within a 112,799-acre lease area approximately 27 miles off the
Virginia Beach, Virginia coastline. Approximately 180-foot maximum
diameter of stone scour protection will be installed around the WTGs.
The project will also include the construction of three (3) offshore
substations (OSS) with approximately 0.95 acres of scour protection,
and approximately 229 miles of 660-kilovolt (kV) inter-array cables. In
addition, nine (9) buried 230 kV offshore export cables will extend
from the lease area to the onshore cable landing area. The offshore
export cables will cross Cells 2 and 5 of the Dam Neck Ocean Disposal
Site (DNODS) and three (3) existing fiber optic, in-service
telecommunications cables; twenty-seven (27) 39.5-foot-long by 9-foot-
wide by 0.5-foot-tall bottom protection concrete mattresses and twenty-
seven (27) 138-foot-long by 9-foot-wide by 0.5-foot-tall top protection
concrete mattresses will be installed to protect the proposed offshore
export cables at these locations. Nine (9) temporary cofferdams will be
installed at the nearshore trenchless installation punch-out locations
to facilitate lowering the direct pipe within the transition zones
where the offshore export cables exit the sea floor. If it is
determined that the use of cofferdams is not feasible during
construction, then nine (9) 82-foot-long by 6.6-foot-wide by 1-foot-
high concrete mattresses will be installed above the transition zones
as added cable protection. In addition, up to 108 temporary steel pipe
piles may be installed along the HDD pipe alignments to act as ``goal-
posts'' to the punch-out locations during construction.
Prior to construction, the offshore project area will be surveyed
using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with a suction pump attachment
to identify potential munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) and
unexploded ordnance (UXO) targets that cannot be avoided. The proposed
mitigation of MEC/UXO for the project is limited to relocation via
``lift and shift'' measures. The Permittee does not intend to conduct
deflagration or detonation of MEC/UXO. It is anticipated that an
average disturbance of 161.5 square feet of ocean bottom per mitigation
of one MEC/UXO will be required as detailed in the MEC/UXO Disposition
Plan and MEC/UXO Identification Survey Reports.
The onshore portion of the project will begin where the offshore
export cables come onshore at the cable landing location at the State
Military Reservation (SMR) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The cables will
then transition to nine (9) underground 230 kV onshore export cables,
which will extend underground approximately 4.4 miles from the SMR to
the proposed Harpers Switching Station located on Naval Air Station
Oceana. From the Harpers Switching Station, the onshore export cables
will transition to overhead interconnection cables and extend
approximately 14.2 miles along new, existing, and expanded right-of-way
corridors to the existing Fentress Substation in Chesapeake, Virginia.
The onshore work will result in permanent impacts to approximately 1.70
acres of palustrine emergent wetlands, 0.68 acres of palustrine scrub/
shrub wetlands, 7.98 acres of palustrine forested wetlands, and 153
linear feet of stream, and the conversion of approximately 29.70 acres
of palustrine forested wetlands to palustrine scrub/shrub wetlands, and
temporary impacts to approximately 0.38 acres of palustrine scrub/shrub
and 25.46 acres of palustrine emergent wetlands.
The USACE's decision to issue a permit, and the laws under which
the action was taken, are described in the Coastal Virginia Offshore
Wind Commercial Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)
published on September, 29, 2023, in the Record of Decision (ROD)
issued on January 29, 2024, and in other project records. The FEIS and
other documents can be viewed and downloaded from the BOEM project
website at https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/CVOW-C. The USACE permit and ROD can be viewed and downloaded from the USACE
website at https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Offshore-Wind-Projects/. By this notice, USACE is advising the public of final
agency action subject to 42 U.S.C. 4370m-6(a)(1)(A).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4370m-6(a)(1)(A).
John P. Lloyd,
Brigadier General, USA, Commanding.
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