Rule2024-22307
Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to the New England Wind Project, Offshore Massachusetts; Correction
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Published
October 1, 2024
Effective
March 27, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
This document contains corrections to a final rule. The document being corrected is the regulations governing the Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to the New England Wind Project, Offshore Massachusetts, published on June 21, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 1, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 79777-79778]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22307]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 217
[Docket No. 240524-0146]
RIN 0648-BL96
Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities;
Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to the New England Wind Project,
Offshore Massachusetts; Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: This document contains corrections to a final rule. The
document being corrected is the regulations governing the Takes of
Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to the New England Wind Project, Offshore
Massachusetts, published on June 21, 2024.
DATES: Effective on March 27, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karolyn Lock, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427-8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
NMFS published a final rule in the Federal Register on June 21,
2024 (89 FR 52222) announcing the promulgation of regulations governing
the incidental take of marine mammals incidental to Avangrid
Renewables, LLC's (Avangrid), construction of the New England Wind
Project in Federal and State waters offshore Massachusetts,
specifically within the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on
the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lease Areas (OCS-A 0534 and OCS-A
0561) and the southwest (SW) portion of Lease Area OCS-A 0501
(collectively referred to as the Lease Area), and along an export cable
routes to sea-to-shore transition points (collectively, the Project
Area), valid for 5 years from the date of effectiveness.
The regulations, which allow for the issuance of a Letter of
Authorization to Avangrid for the incidental take of marine mammals
during the specified activities within the specified geographical
region during the effective dates of the regulations, prescribe the
permissible methods of taking and other means of effecting the least
practicable adverse impact on marine mammal species or stocks and their
habitat, as well as requirements pertaining to the monitoring and
reporting of such taking. NMFS refers the reader to the final rule (89
FR 52222, June 21, 2024) for background information concerning the
regulations.
The following corrections are being made:
<bullet> The regulations contained an inconsistency between the
headings for 50 CFR 217.325 wherein the heading in the table of
contents did not agree with the text of the section, necessitating
relabeling.
<bullet> 50 CFR 217.324(c)(15)(xiv) was promulgated twice (i.e.,
two different measures were both designated as 50 CFR
217.324(c)(15)(xiv), necessitating renumbering).
Correction
Subpart GG [Corrected]
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1. In rule document 2024-12085 at 89 FR 52222 in the issue of June 21,
2024, on page 52301, in the first column, in the table of contents for
Subpart GG, correct the entry for 50 CFR 217.325 to read as 50 CFR
217.325 Monitoring and reporting requirements.
Sec. 217.324 [Corrected]
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2. On page 52308, in the first column, the second paragraph
(c)(15)(xiv) is corrected to read as follows: (xv) LOA Holder must
conduct SFV measurements during turbine operations to estimate turbine
operational source levels and transmission loss rates, in accordance
with a NMFS-approved SFV Plan.
Dated: September 24, 2024.
Kimberly Damon-Randall,
Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-22307 Filed 9-30-24; 8:45 am]
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