Notice2024-04780
Notice of Final Federal Agency Action on the Authorization for the Revolution Wind Farm and Revolution Wind Export Cable Project Offshore Rhode Island
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Published
March 6, 2024
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Defense DepartmentEngineers Corps
Abstract
USACE announces final agency action on the USACE authorization for the proposed construction and maintenance of the Revolution Wind Farm and Revolution Wind Offshore Export Cable Project (the Revolution Wind Project) offshore Rhode Island. USACE has issued a permit authorizing the construction and maintenance of the Revolution Wind Project under section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (RHA) and section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Revolution Wind Project is a "covered project" under title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15982-15983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04780]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers
[Permit No. NAE-2020-00707]
Notice of Final Federal Agency Action on the Authorization for
the Revolution Wind Farm and Revolution Wind Export Cable Project
Offshore Rhode Island
AGENCY: 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).
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SUMMARY: USACE announces final agency action on the USACE authorization
for the proposed construction and maintenance of the Revolution Wind
Farm and Revolution Wind Offshore Export Cable Project (the Revolution
Wind Project) offshore Rhode Island. USACE has issued a permit
authorizing the construction and maintenance of the Revolution Wind
Project under section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (RHA)
and section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Revolution Wind
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 Revolution Wind 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: Ms. Ruth Brien, Regulatory Project
Manager, Regulatory Division, USACE, New England District, 696 Virginia
Road, Concord, Massachusetts 01742, (978) 318-8054 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b0d3d5ded1d59dc29ddfd6d6c3d8dfc2d5c7d9ded4f0c5c3d1d3d59ed1c2ddc99eddd9dc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dcbfb9b2bdb9f1aef1b3babaafb4b3aeb9abb5b2b89ca9afbdbfb9f2bdaeb1a5f2b1b5b0">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that USACE has taken
final agency action on its authorization for the proposed Revolution
Wind Project by issuing a permit authorizing construction and
maintenance of the Project under section 10 of the RHA and section 404
of the CWA. The majority of the authorized work will occur in the
Atlantic Ocean within the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-A-0486, which is approximately 15
nautical miles (nm) southeast of Point Judith, Rhode Island,
approximately 13 nm east of Block Island, Rhode Island, and
approximately 7.5 nm south of Nomans Land Island National Wildlife
Refuge.
The work authorized under the USACE permit includes the following:
(1) the installation of up to 65 wind turbine generators (WTGs) and up
to 2 offshore substations (OSSs) with associated scour protection, (2)
the installation of 155 miles of inter-array cables connecting the WTGs
and 9 miles of inter-link cables connecting the OSSs with associated
secondary cable protection as needed, and (3) installation of up to 2
export transmission cables with associated secondary cable protection
within a 42-
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mile-long offshore export cable corridor extending from the lease area
north into Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay, making landfall
near Quonset Point in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
The USACE's decision to issue a permit, and the laws under which
the action was taken, are described in the Revolution Wind Export Cable
Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) published on July
21, 2023, in the joint Record of Decision (ROD) issued on August 21,
2023, and in other project records. The FEIS, ROD, and other documents
can be viewed and downloaded from the BOEM project website at <a href="https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/revolution-wind">https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/revolution-wind</a>. The
USACE permit can be viewed and downloaded from the USACE website at
<a href="https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Permits-Issued/Orsted-Revolution-Wind-LLC-Oct-2023/">https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Permits-Issued/Orsted-Revolution-Wind-LLC-Oct-2023/</a>. 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, Commanding.
[FR Doc. 2024-04780 Filed 3-5-24; 8:45 am]
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