Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 188 / Friday, September 29, 2023 / Notices 67359 

listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno 

Mission Indians of the Pechanga 

Reservation, California). 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

associated funerary objects in this notice 

must be sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the associated 

funerary objects in this notice to a 

requestor may occur on or after October 

30, 2023. If competing requests for 

repatriation are received, the University 

of California, Riverside must determine 

the most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the associated funerary 

objects are considered a single request 

and not competing requests. The 

University of California, Riverside is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: September 25, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2023–0047] 

Notice of Availability of a Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore 

Wind Commercial Project, Offshore 

Virginia 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; final 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: BOEM announces the 

availability of the final environmental 

impact statement (FEIS) for the 

construction and operations plan (COP) 

submitted by Virginia Electric and 

Power Company (dba Dominion Energy) 

for the proposed Coastal Virginia 

Offshore Wind Commercial Project 

(Project), offshore Virginia Beach, 

Virginia. 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: https://www.boem.gov/ 

renewable-energy/state-activities/ 

CVOW-C. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Stromberg, BOEM Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 45600 

Woodland Road, Sterling, Virginia 

20166, (703) 787–1730 or 

jessica.stromberg@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Action: Dominion Energy 

seeks approval to construct, operate, 

and maintain the Project: a wind energy 

facility and the associated export cables 

on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

offshore Virginia. The Project would be 

developed within the range of design 

parameters outlined in the COP, subject 

to applicable mitigation measures. 

The Project as proposed in the COP 

would include up to 202 wind turbine 

generators (WTGs); up to three offshore, 

high voltage, alternating current 

substations; inter-array cables linking 

the individual turbines to the offshore 

substations; substation interconnector 

cables linking the substations to each 

other; offshore export cables; an onshore 

export cable system; an onshore 

switching station north of Harpers Road 

(Harpers Switching Station) or north of 

Princess Anne Road (Chicory Switching 

Station) in Virginia Beach, Virginia; and 

an overhead power line connection to 

the existing electrical grid at the 

Fentress Substation in Chesapeake, 

Virginia. 

The WTGs, offshore substations, interarray cables, and substation 

interconnector cables would be located 

on the OCS approximately 24 nautical 

miles (27 statute miles) east of Virginia 

Beach, Virginia, within the area defined 

by Renewable Energy Lease OCS–A– 

0483. The offshore export cables would 

be buried below the seabed surface in 

the OCS and Commonwealth of 

Virginia-owned submerged lands. The 

onshore export cables, substations, and 

grid connections would be located in 

Princess Anne County, Virginia. 

Alternatives: BOEM considered a 

reasonable range of alternatives when 

preparing the draft environmental 

impact statement (DEIS) and carried 

forward the no action alternative and 

four action alternatives for further 

analysis in the DEIS and FEIS. Action 

alternatives A, B, C, and D (includes onshore sub-alternatives D1 and D2) are 

analyzed in the FEIS. Three alternatives 

and four on-shore sub-alternatives were 

eliminated from detailed analysis 

because they did not meet the purpose 

and need for the proposed action or did 

not meet the screening criteria, which 

are presented in appendix C of the FEIS. 

The screening criteria included 

consistency with law and regulations, 

technical and economic feasibility, 

environmental impact, and geographic 

considerations. 

Availability of the FEIS: The FEIS, 

COP, and associated information are 

available on BOEM’s website at: https:// 

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/CVOW-C. 

BOEM has distributed digital copies 

of the FEIS to all parties listed in 

appendix K of the FEIS. If you would 

like a digital copy of the FEIS on a flash 

drive or a paper copy, BOEM will 

provide one upon request, as long as 

copies are available. You may request a 

flash drive or paper copy of the FEIS by 

contacting Lisa Landers at (703) 787– 

1520 or lisa.landers@boem.gov. 

Cooperating Agencies: The following 

seven Federal agencies participated as 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 

of the FEIS: Bureau of Safety and 

Environmental Enforcement; U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency; 

National Marine Fisheries Service; 

National Park Service; U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers; U.S. Coast Guard; and U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

Participating Agencies: The following 

four agencies participated in the 

preparation of the FEIS as participating 

agencies: Department of Defense; 

Department of the Navy; the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation; and 

the Virginia Department of 

Environmental Protection. 

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. 

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