The Bureau of Ocean Power Administration (BOEM) has introduced it’ll conduct a regional environmental evaluation of potential improvement actions on the 5 offshore wind lease areas off California’s central and north coasts.
A Discover of Intent to organize a Programmatic Environmental Impression Assertion (PEIS) will publish within the Federal Register on Dec. 20, initiating a 60-day remark interval. The enter gathered throughout the interval will inform the scope and alternate options of the PEIS.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is dedicated to responsibly harnessing the clear power and financial potential of offshore wind in California,” says BOEM’s Doug Boren. “This regional environmental evaluation will assist be certain that well timed selections may be made to advance offshore wind whereas defending the ocean atmosphere, marine life and different ocean makes use of. This strategy additionally ensures each a complete evaluation of the California areas and improved efficiencies for future offshore wind undertaking evaluations.”
The PEIS will describe the potential impacts of federal offshore wind power improvement actions off California’s coast, in addition to the change in these impacts that might outcome from adopting programmatic mitigation measures. BOEM will conduct subsequent site-specific NEPA analyses and consultations for particular person proposed tasks as development and operations plans for these tasks are obtained.
