Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 177 / Thursday, September 12, 2024 / Notices 74263 

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www.usace.army.mil/Missions/ 

Environmental-Justice. 

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above. The schedule for the 3 virtual 

meetings is as follows: 

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Tribal Virtual Meeting 

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ee3dea. 

Michael L. Connor, 

Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works). 

[FR Doc. 2024–20678 Filed 9–11–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

[Permit No. NAE–2021–01301] 

Notice of Final Federal Agency Action 

on the Authorization for the New 

England Wind Farm and New England 

Wind Project 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of limitation on claims 

for judicial review of actions by the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). 

SUMMARY: USACE announces final 

agency action on the USACE 

authorization for the proposed 

construction and maintenance of the 

New England Wind Farm and New 

England Wind Project Phase I (New 

England Wind Phase I Project) offshore 

Massachusetts. USACE has issued a 

permit authorizing the construction and 

maintenance of the New England Wind 

Phase I Project under section 10 of the 

Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (RHA) 

and section 404 of the Clean Water Act 

(CWA). The New England Wind Phase 

I Project is a ‘‘covered project’’ under 

title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface 

Transportation Act. 

DATES: A claim seeking judicial review 

of the USACE authorization of 

construction and maintenance of the 

New England Wind Phase I Project will 

be barred unless the claim is filed not 

later than two years after this notice’s 

publication date. If the Federal law that 

allows for judicial review of the USACE 

authorization specifies a shorter time 

period for filing such a claim, then that 

shorter time period will apply. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christine Jacek, 696 Virginia Road, 

Concord, Massachusetts 01742, 978– 

318–8026, cenae-r-offshorewind@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that USACE has taken final 

agency action on its authorization for 

the proposed New England Wind Phase 

I Project by issuing a permit authorizing 

construction and maintenance of the 

Project under section 10 of the RHA and 

section 404 of the CWA. A majority of 

the work will occur in the Atlantic 

Ocean within the Bureau of Ocean 

Energy Management (BOEM) Renewable 

Energy Lease Area OCS–A 0534, which 

is approximately eighteen (18) nautical 

miles (NM) south of Martha’s Vineyard, 

Massachusetts. Export cable work 

would occur within a forty two (42) NM 

long offshore export cable corridor 

extending from the lease area, through 

the Muskeget Channel and Nantucket 

Sound with cable landfall at Craigville 

Beach, Barnstable, Massachusetts. The 

export cables would also cross the 

Centerville River in Barnstable, 

Massachusetts. 

The work authorized under the 

USACE permit includes the 

construction and maintenance of a 

commercial-scale offshore wind facility 

within a 63,012 acre BOEM Renewable 

Energy Lease Area OCS–A 0534. The 

work includes: (1) the installation of up 

to sixty two (62) wind turbine 

generators (WTGs) and up to two (2) 

electrical service platforms (ESPs) with 

up to seventy four (74) acres associated 

scour protection for the structures, (2) 

the installation of approximately 133 

NM of inter-array cables connecting the 

WTGs and inter-link cable connecting 

the ESPs to the WTGs with eleven (11) 

acres of associated scour protection for 

the cables, (3) the installation up to two 

(2) export transmission cables within a 

single forty two (42) NM offshore export 

cable corridor (OECC) with 

approximately 2.5 acres of cable scour 

protection on the outer continental shelf 

(OCS) and 21.5 acres of subtidal fills 

associated with cable scour protection 

and sand wave relocation activities. 

Each export transmission cable will 

have a 12 foot (ft.) wide disturbance 

zone associated with installation and an 

estimated disturbance area involving up 

to 75 acres of subtidal waters., (4) the 

refilling of two horizontal directional 

drilling (HDD) exit pits to be excavated 

for the HDD work associated with the 

shore to landfall work. Each HDD exit 

pit will be approximately 10,000 square 

feet (sq. ft.) in size with approximately 

20,000 sq. ft. of total impacts associated 

with the discharge of excavated material 

back into the HDD pits, and (5) HDD 

installation of the transmission cables 

under the Centerville River. 

The USACE’s decision to issue a 

permit, and the laws under which the 

action was taken, are described in the 

New England Wind Project Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 

published in March 2024, in the joint 

Record of Decision (ROD) issued on 

April 1, 2024, and in other project 

records. The FEIS, ROD, and other 

documents can be viewed and 

downloaded from the BOEM project 

website at https://www.boem.gov/ 

renewable-energy/state-activities/newengland-wind-1-and-2. The USACE 

permit can be viewed and downloaded 

from the USACE website at https://

www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/ 

Regulatory/permits-Issued/. By this 

notice, USACE is advising the public of 

final agency action subject to 42 U.S.C. 

4370m-6(a)(1)(A). 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4370m– 

6(a)(1)(A). 

John P. Lloyd, 

Brigadier General, USA, Commanding. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20642 Filed 9–11–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Department of the Navy Science and 

Technology Board; Notice of Federal 

Advisory Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy (DoN), 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee meeting. 

SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this 

notice to announce that the following 

Federal Advisory Committee meeting of 

the Department of the Navy Science and 

Technology Board (DoN S&T Board) 

will take place. 


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