Notice2024-11947
Notice of Availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC's Proposed Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind South Project Offshore New Jersey
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Published
May 31, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentOcean Energy Management Bureau
Abstract
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC (Atlantic Shores) construction and operations plan (COP) for its proposed Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind South Project (Project) offshore New Jersey. The FEIS analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the Project as described in the COP (the Proposed Action) and the alternatives to the Proposed Action, including the No Action Alternative. The FEIS will inform BOEM's decision whether to approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove the COP.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 106 (Friday, May 31, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47174-47175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11947]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM-2024-0018]
Notice of Availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement
for Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC's Proposed Atlantic Shores
Offshore Wind South Project Offshore New Jersey
AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; final environmental impact statement.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces the
availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC (Atlantic Shores) construction and
operations plan (COP) for its proposed Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind
South Project (Project) offshore New Jersey. The FEIS analyzes the
potential environmental impacts of the Project as described in the COP
(the Proposed Action) and the alternatives to the Proposed Action,
including the No Action Alternative. The FEIS will inform BOEM's
decision whether to approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove
the COP.
ADDRESSES: The FEIS and detailed information about the Project,
including the COP, can be found on BOEM's website at: <a href="https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/atlantic-shores-south">https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/atlantic-shores-south</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kimberly Sullivan, BOEM Office of
Renewable Energy Programs, 45600 Woodland Road, Sterling, Virginia
20166, (702) 338-4766 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9cf7f5f1fef9eef0e5b2efe9f0f0f5eafdf2dcfef3f9f1b2fbf3ea"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5ceccc8c7c0d7c9dc8bd6d0c9c9ccd3c4cbe5c7cac0c88bc2cad3">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Action: Atlantic Shores seeks approval to construct,
operate, and maintain two wind energy facilities (Project 1 and Project
2) and their associated export cables on the Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS) offshore New Jersey. The Project would be developed within the
range of design parameters outlined in the Atlantic Shores COP, subject
to the applicable mitigation measures.
The Project as proposed in the COP would include up to 200 total
wind turbine generators (WTGs) (between 105 and 136 WTGs for Project 1
and between 64 and 95 WTGs for Project 2), up to 10 offshore
substations (up to 5 in each Project), 1 permanent meteorological (met)
tower, up to 4 temporary meteorological and oceanographic (metocean)
buoys (up to 1 met tower and 3 metocean buoys in Project 1 and 1
metocean buoy in Project 2), interarray and interlink cables, up to 2
onshore substations, 2 points of interconnection, 1 operations and
maintenance facility, and up to 8 transmission cables making landfall
at 2 New Jersey locations.
The Atlantic Shores South Project is proposed to be located 8.7
miles (14 kilometers) \1\ from the New Jersey shoreline at its closest
point within the area covered by Renewable Energy Lease Number OCS-A
0499 (Lease Area).
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\1\ Equates to 7.6 nautical miles. 1 nautical mile = 1.1508
statute miles.
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Alternatives: BOEM considered 21 alternatives (including the No
Action Alternative) when preparing the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement and carried forward six alternatives for further analysis in
the FEIS. These alternatives include five action alternatives and the
No Action Alternative. Fifteen alternatives were not analyzed in detail
because they did not meet the purpose and need for the Proposed Action
or did not meet screening criteria, which are presented in the FEIS
Chapter 2. The screening criteria included consistency with law and
regulations, technical and economic feasibility, environmental impacts,
and geographic considerations.
Availability of the FEIS: The FEIS, the Atlantic Shores COP, and
associated information are available on BOEM's website at: <a href="https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/atlantic-shores-south">https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/atlantic-shores-south</a>.
BOEM has distributed digital copies of the FEIS to
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all parties listed in FEIS Appendix M. If you require a flash drive or
paper copy, BOEM will provide one upon request, as long as supplies are
available. You may request a flash drive or paper copy of the FEIS by
contacting Kimberly Sullivan at (702) 338-4766 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#375c5e5a5552455b4e1944425b5b5e415659775558525a19505841"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81eae8ece3e4f3edf8aff2f4edede8f7e0efc1e3eee4ecafe6eef7">[email protected]</span></a>.
Cooperating Agencies: The following Federal agencies and State
governmental entities participated as cooperating agencies under the
National Environmental Policy Act in the preparation of the FEIS:
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement; National Marine
Fisheries Service; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; U.S. Coast Guard;
National Park Service; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service; New Jersey Board of Public Utilities; New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection; and New York State Department
of State.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4231 et seq. (NEPA, as amended) and 40 CFR
1506.6.
Karen Baker,
Chief, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
[FR Doc. 2024-11947 Filed 5-30-24; 8:45 am]
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