[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 211 (Monday, November 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 67416]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27875]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM-2015-0062]
Wind Energy Research Lease Issuance on the Atlantic Outer
Continental Shelf Offshore Virginia
AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of a Research Lease of Submerged Lands
for Renewable Energy Activities on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore
Virginia.
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SUMMARY: BOEM has issued a wind energy research lease to the
Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy for
an area situated on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore Virginia. The
purpose of this notice is to inform the public of the availability of
the executed lease, Renewable Energy Lease No. OCS-A-0497.
Proposed activities on the lease include the installation and
operation of wind turbine generators and resource assessment devices,
as well as associated offshore substation platforms, interarray cables,
and subsea export cables. The total acreage of the lease area is
approximately 2,135 acres. The lease area is comprised of six aliquots
(i.e., sub-blocks) lying within Official Protraction Diagram Currituck
Sound NJ18-11 Blocks 6061 and 6111. The lease and supporting
documentation, including required environmental compliance
documentation and notices that solicited competitive interest, can be
found online at: http://www.boem.gov/VOWTAP/.
Authority: This Notice of the Availability of a wind energy
research lease is published pursuant to 30 CFR 585.238(f), which
implements subsection 8(p) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
(43 U.S.C. 1337(p)).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Casey Reeves, BOEM Office of
Renewable Energy Programs, 45600 Woodland Road, Sterling, Virginia
20166, (703) 787-1320 or [email protected].
Dated: October 13, 2015.
Abigail Ross Hopper,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
[FR Doc. 2015-27875 Filed 10-30-15; 8:45 am]
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