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1849 C Street NW, MS 7228, 

Washington, DC 20240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sherry A. Frear, Chief, National Register 

of Historic Places/National Historic 

Landmarks Program, 1849 C Street NW, 

MS 7228, Washington, DC 20240, 

sherry_frear@nps.gov, 202–913–3763. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

properties listed in this notice are being 

considered for listing or related actions 

in the National Register of Historic 

Places. Nominations for their 

consideration were received by the 

National Park Service before March 12, 

2022. Pursuant to section 60.13 of 36 

CFR part 60, comments are being 

accepted concerning the significance of 

the nominated properties under the 

National Register criteria for evaluation. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Nominations submitted by State or 

Tribal Historic Preservation Officers: 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

District of Columbia 

Calvin Coolidge Senior High School (Public 

School Buildings of Washington, DC MPS), 

6315 5th St. NW, Washington, 

MP100007616 

FLORIDA 

Broward County 

Rivermont, Address Restricted, Fort 

Lauderdale, SG100007619 

Duval County 

Clifton Cemetery, Intersection of Garrison 

and Magnolia Bluff Aves., Jacksonville, 

SG100007617 

Lee County 

McCollum Hall, 2701 Dr. Martin Luther King, 

Jr. Blvd., Fort Myers, SG100007618 

GEORGIA 

Grady County 

Pope’s Museum, 192 Pope’s Store Rd., 

Ochlocknee, SG100007625 

ILLINOIS 

Champaign County 

Royer, Joseph W., House and Ella Danely 

Cottage, 801 West Oregon St. and 701 

South Busey Ave., Urbana, SG100007626 

IOWA 

Des Moines County 

Aspen Grove Cemetery Historic District, 2043 

Sunnyside Ave., Burlington, SG100007633 

NEW JERSEY 

Bergen County 

Van Gelder Studio and Home, 445 Sylvan 

Ave., Englewood Cliffs, SG100007644 

Cumberland County 

Greenwich Historic District (Boundary 

Increase/Decrease), Irregularly bounded by 

the Cohansey R., Pier Rd., Molly Wheaton 

and Pine Mount Runs, Greenwich 

Township, BC100007645 

Essex County 

Maplewood Village Historic District, 

Maplewood Ave., Durand Rd., Baker St., 

Highland, Inwood and Lenox Pls., 

Maplewood Township, SG100007649 

Hudson County 

Morton Memorial Laboratory of Chemistry, 

6th and River Sts., Hoboken, SG100007647 

Loew’s Jersey Theatre, 54 Journal Sq., Jersey 

City, SG100007648 

OREGON 

Marion County 

State Library of Oregon (Oregon New Deal 

Resources from the PWA or WPA, 1933– 

1943 MPS), 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, 

MP100007638 

WISCONSIN 

Grant County 

Gernan Evangelical Lutheran Church of 

Peace, 350 East Furnace St., Platteville, 

SG100007631 

Sauk County 

Baraboo Chicago & North Western Depot and 

Division Offices, 220 Lynn St., Baraboo, 

SG100007642 

Perry, Ralph P., House (Reedsburg MRA), 531 

East Main St., Reedsburg, 84004019 

A request for removal has been made 

for the following resources: 

IOWA 

Allamakee County 

Monsrud Bridge (Highway Bridges of Iowa 

MPS), Swebakken Rd. over Paint Cr., 

Waterville vicinity, OT98000771 

TENNESSEE 

Davidson County 

Hibbettage, The, 2160 Old Hickory Blvd., 

Nashville, OT98001305 

Sevier County 

Sevierville Masonic Lodge, 119 Main St., 

Sevierville, OT80003855 

Shelby County 

Richards, Newton Copeland, House, 975 

Peabody Ave., Memphis, OT84003709 

Additional documentation has been 

received for the following resources: 

IOWA 

Cedar County 

Hotel Tipton (Additional Documentation), 

519–529 Cedar St., Tipton, AD98001328 

MICHIGAN 

Kalamazoo County 

State Theatre (Additional Documentation) 

(Kalamazoo MRA), 404 South Burdick St., 

Kalamazoo, AD83004623 

MINNESOTA 

Dodge County 

Mantorville Historic District (Additional 

Documentation), Both sides of MN 57 and 

5th St., Mantorville, AD74001017 

NEW JERSEY 

Cumberland County 

Greenwich Historic District (Additional 

Documentation), Irregularly bounded by 

the Cohansey R., Pier Rd., Molly Wheaton 

and Pine Mount Runs, Greenwich 

Township, AD100007645 

WISCONSIN 

Iowa County 

Pendarvis (Additional Documentation), 114 

Shake Rag St., Mineral Point, AD71000038 

Nomination submitted by Federal 

Preservation Officer: 

The State Historic Preservation 

Officer reviewed the following 

nomination and responded to the 

Federal Preservation Officer within 45 

days of receipt of the nomination and 

supports listing the property in the 

National Register of Historic Places. 

MONTANA 

Beaverhead County 

Everson Creek Archaeological District, 

Address Restricted, Dillon vicinity, 

SG100007636 

Dated: March 15, 2022. 

Sherry A. Frear, 

Chief, National Register of Historic Places/ 

National Historic Landmarks Program. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06359 Filed 3–25–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2022–0015] 

Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 9 (ATLW–9) 

for Commercial Leasing for Wind 

Power on the Outer Continental Shelf 

(OCS) in the Carolina Long Bay Area 

(CLBA)—Final Sale Notice (FSN) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Final sale notice. 

SUMMARY: This FSN contains 

information pertaining to the areas 


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available for commercial wind energy 

leasing on the OCS in the Carolina Long 

Bay Area. Specifically, this FSN details 

certain provisions and conditions of the 

leases, auction details, the lease form, 

criteria for evaluating competing bids, 

award procedures, appeal procedures, 

and lease execution. The Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will 

offer two leases: Lease OCS–A 0545 and 

Lease OCS–A 0546. The issuance of any 

lease resulting from this sale would not 

constitute an approval of projectspecific plans to develop offshore wind 

energy. Such plans, if submitted by the 

lessee, would be subject to subsequent 

environmental, technical, and public 

reviews prior to a decision on whether 

the proposed development should be 

authorized. 

DATES: BOEM will hold an online mock 

auction for potential bidders starting at 

9:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) 

on May 6, 2022. The monetary auction 

will be held online and will begin at 

9:00 a.m. EDT on May 11, 2022. 

Additional details are provided in the 

section entitled ‘‘Deadlines and 

Milestones for Bidders.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Casey Reeves, BOEM Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 45600 

Woodland Road, VAM–OREP, Sterling, 

Virginia 20166, (703) 787–1671 or 

casey.reeves@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1337(p); 30 CFR 

585.211 and 585.216. 

I. BACKGROUND: The Outer 

Continental Shelf Lands Act authorizes 

BOEM to offer renewable energy leases 

for sale on the OCS competitively, 

unless BOEM determines there is no 

competitive interest. On December 13, 

2012, BOEM published a Call for 

Information and Nominations (or 

‘‘Call’’) in the Federal Register (under 

Docket ID: BOEM–2012–0088) for a 45- 

day public comment period to gauge the 

offshore wind industry’s interest in 

acquiring commercial wind leases in 

three areas offshore North Carolina and 

to request comments regarding site 

conditions, resources and other uses 

within the Call areas. On February 5, 

2013, BOEM reopened the comment 

period for the Call to allow for 

additional public input (Docket ID: 

BOEM–2012–0088); the comment 

period closed on March 7, 2013. BOEM 

then published a Proposed Sale Notice 

(PSN) in the Federal Register on 

November 1, 2021, which initiated a 60- 

day comment period ending on January 

3, 2022. Any prospective bidders 

wishing to participate in a Carolina 

Long Bay lease sale were requested to 

submit qualification materials 

postmarked no later than January 3, 

2022. BOEM also hosted an auction 

seminar for prospective bidders on 

November 16, 2021, to discuss the 

proposed auction format. BOEM 

received 60 comment submissions in 

response to the PSN, which are 

available on regulations.gov (Docket ID: 

BOEM–2021–0078) at: https://

www.regulations.gov/document/BOEM2021-0078-0001. 

In response to the comments received, 

BOEM made several changes to the 

description of the Wilmington East 

Lease Area that was published in the 

PSN. The primary change is a 

reorientation of lease area boundaries 

resulting in 110,091 acres being offered 

for sale, which is further explained in 

Section IV—Areas Offered for Leasing. 

In addition, several lease stipulations 

were developed, or refined, based on 

feedback solicited in the PSN, including 

provisions to advance engagement and 

coordination with federally recognized 

Tribal Nations, ocean users, other 

agencies, underserved communities, 

and other interested stakeholders; 

advance flexibility in transmission 

planning; advance the domestic supply 

chain; and promote the use of project 

labor agreements (PLAs). 

II. LIST OF ELIGIBLE BIDDERS: 

BOEM has determined that the 

following 16 entities are legally, 

technically, and financially qualified to 

hold a commercial wind lease in the 

Wilmington East Lease Area pursuant to 

30 CFR 585.106 and 107 and may 

participate in this lease sale as bidders 

subject to meeting the requirements 

outlined in this notice: 

Company name 

Company 

No. 

547 Energy LLC ........................................ 15123 

Arevia Power LLC ..................................... 15129 

Avangrid Renewables, LLC ...................... 15019 

BP US Offshore Wind Energy LLC ........... 15122 

Invenergy Long Bay Offshore LLC ........... 15137 

Carolina Offshore Wind LLC ..................... 15135 

Duke Energy Renewables Wind, LLC ...... 15134 

EDF Renewables Development, Inc. ........ 15027 

JERA Renewables NA, LLC ..................... 15131 

Masdar Offshore Wind Americas LLC ...... 15139 

MRP Offshore Wind Farm LLC ................. 15141 

Orsted North America Inc. ........................ 15059 

OW North America Ventures LLC ............. 15133 

RWE Offshore Wind Holdings, LLC .......... 15061 

Shell New Energies US LLC ..................... 15140 

TotalEnergies Renewables USA, LLC ...... 15136 

a. Affiliated Entities: On the Bidder’s 

Financial Form (BFF) discussed below, 

eligible bidders must list any eligible 

bidders with whom they are affiliated. 

Affiliated eligible bidders are not 

permitted to compete against each other 

in the lease sale and must decide by the 

start of the auction which eligible 

bidder (if any) will participate. If two or 

more affiliated bidders participate in the 

auction, BOEM may disqualify some or 

all such bidders from the auction. 

BOEM considers two entities to be 

affiliated if they meet the definition of 

affiliate in 30 CFR 1206.20, as 

applicable, or if they are both direct, or 

indirect, subsidiaries of the same parent 

company. 

III. DEADLINES AND MILESTONES 

FOR BIDDERS: This section describes 

the major deadlines and milestones in 

the auction process from publication of 

this FSN to execution of the lease 

pursuant to this sale. These are 

organized into various stages: The FSN 

Waiting Period; Conducting the 

Auction; and From the Auction to Lease 

Execution. 

a. FSN Waiting Period 

i. BFF: Each bidder must submit a BFF 

to BOEM to participate in the auction. 

BOEM must receive each BFF no later 

than April 11, 2022. If a bidder does not 

submit a BFF by this deadline, BOEM, 

in its sole discretion, may grant an 

extension to that bidder only if BOEM 

determines the bidder’s failure to timely 

submit a BFF was caused by events 

beyond the bidder’s control. The BFF 

can be downloaded at: boem.gov/ 

renewable-energy/state-activities/ 

carolina-long-bay. Once BOEM has 

processed a BFF, the bidder may log 

into pay.gov and submit a bid deposit. 

For purposes of this auction, BOEM will 

not consider any BFFs submitted by 

bidders for previous lease sales. BOEM 

will only accept an originally executed 

paper copy of the BFF. The BFF must 

be executed by an authorized 

representative listed on the bidder’s 

legal qualifications. Each bidder is 

required to sign the self-certification in 

the BFF, in accordance with 18 U.S.C. 

1001 (Fraud and False Statements). 

ii. Bid Deposit: Each bidder must 

provide a bid deposit of $2,000,000 no 

later than April 25, 2022, to participate 

in the mock auction and the monetary 

auction. If a bidder would like to qualify 

to win two lease areas, the bidder must 

provide a bid deposit of $4,000,000. 

BOEM will consider extensions to this 

deadline only if BOEM, in its sole 

discretion, determines that the failure to 

timely submit the bid deposit was 

caused by events beyond the bidder’s 

control. Further information about bid 

deposits can be found in the ‘‘Bid 

Deposit’’ section of this notice. 

b. Conducting the Auction 

i. Mock Auction: BOEM will hold a 

Mock Auction on May 6, 2022, 

beginning at 9:00 a.m. EDT. The Mock 

Auction will be held online. BOEM will 

contact each bidder that has timely 

submitted a BFF and bid deposit and 

provide instructions for participation. 


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Only bidders that have timely submitted 

BFFs and bid deposits may participate 

in the Mock Auction. 

ii. Multiple-factor Auction: On May 

11, 2022, BOEM, through its contractor, 

will start the auction. The first round of 

the auction will start at 9:00 a.m. EDT. 

The auction will proceed electronically 

according to a schedule to be distributed 

by the BOEM Auction Manager at the 

beginning of the auction, subject to 

revisions that will be communicated to 

bidders during the auction. BOEM 

anticipates that the auction will last 1- 

business day, but it may continue for as 

many consecutive business days, as 

necessary, until the auction ends in 

accordance with the procedures 

described in the ‘‘Auction Procedures’’ 

section of this notice. 

iii. Announce Provisional Winners: 

BOEM will announce the provisional 

winners of the lease sale after the 

auction ends. 

c. From the Auction to Lease 

Execution 

i. Refund Non-Winners: Once the 

provisional winners have been 

announced, BOEM will return the nonwinners’ bid deposits. 

ii. Department of Justice (DOJ) 

Review: DOJ will have 30 days in which 

to conduct an antitrust review of the 

auction, pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1337(c). 

iii. Delivery of the Lease: BOEM will 

send three lease copies to each 

provisional winner, with instructions 

for executing the lease. The first year’s 

rent is due 45-calendar days after the 

winners receive the lease copies for 

execution. 

iv. Return the Lease: Within 10- 

business days of receiving the lease 

copies, the auction winners must post 

financial assurance, pay any 

outstanding balance of their bonus bids 

(i.e., winning monetary bid minus 

applicable bid deposit), and sign and 

return the three executed lease copies. 

In the event of a delay, BOEM may 

extend the 10 business day time period 

for executing and returning the lease if 

we determine the delay to be caused by 

events beyond your control, pursuant to 

30 CFR 585.224(e). 

v. Execution of Lease: Once BOEM 

has received the signed lease copies and 

verified that all other required materials 

have been received, BOEM will make a 

final determination regarding its 

issuance of the leases and will execute 

the leases, if appropriate. 

IV. AREAS OFFERED FOR LEASING: 

In deciding whether to remove areas 

from leasing consideration, BOEM’s 

charge is to balance all the factors in 43 

U.S.C. 1337(p)(4). No single factor or 

comment led to BOEM’s designation of 

the final two sale areas; rather, BOEM 

altered the areas in certain locations 

where: (1) Multiple factors weighed in 

favor of a change; (2) there was evidence 

supporting the application of those 

factors; and (3) the changes were 

supported by the comments. BOEM’s 

designation of the two lease areas 

offered in the FSN were informed by its 

coordination with BOEM’s 

intergovernmental task force members 

for multiple years, stakeholder 

engagement, and consideration of the 60 

comments that BOEM received in 

response to the PSN. BOEM is offering 

two lease areas totaling 110,091 acres 

for sale through this notice (Figure 1). 

The size of the two lease areas have 

been reduced by approximately 14 

percent from the size of the areas 

proposed in the PSN to address issues 

and concerns expressed in the 

comments submitted on the PSN and 

through consultation with Federal 

agencies. Approximately 17,774 acres 

were removed from Leases OCS–A 0545 

and OCS–A 0546 in the FSN. BOEM 

decided to remove from leasing 

consideration all lease blocks within 20 

statute miles of the shoreline, thereby 

eliminating 13,474 acres in the northern 

portion of the proposed lease area. In 

addition, 4,300 acres were removed 

from the southeast portion of the 

proposed lease area to eliminate overlap 

between the lease area and the 

navigational fairway proposed by the 

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). Following 

these removals, BOEM divided the 

remaining lease area into two nearly 

equal lease areas. BOEM designated the 

two lease areas to ensure that each has 

a similar acreage, distance to shore, 

wind resource potential, and in 

response to comments received on the 

PSN. 

The area available for sale will be 

auctioned as two leases: 

TABLE 1 TO SECTION IV—ATLW–9 

FINAL LEASE AREAS

Lease Total acres 

OCS–A 0545 ........................ 54,937 

OCS–A 0546 ........................ 55,154 


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V. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: On 

December 13, 2012, BOEM published a 

notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) to 

consider potential environmental 

consequences of site characterization 

activities (e.g., biological, archeological, 

geological, and geophysical surveys and 

core samples) and site assessment 

activities (e.g., installation of 

meteorological towers or buoys) 

expected to be conducted after lease 

issuance. The EA also considered 

surveys along project easements 

associated with the potential leases and 

grants for subsea cable corridors. As part 

of the EA process, BOEM sought 

comments on the issues and alternatives 

that should inform the EA and received 

approximately 47 comments, which can 

be found at https://www.regulations.gov 

under Docket No. BOEM–2012–0090. A 

notice of availability of the EA was 

published on January 23, 2015, to 

initiate a 30-day public comment period 

(80 FR 3621) and comments received 

can be found at https://

www.regulations.gov under Docket No. 

BOEM–2015–0001. The EA was 

subsequently revised based on 

comments received during the comment 

period and public information meetings. 

The revised EA and the finding of no 

significant impact were published on 

September 17, 2015 and are available at: 

https://www.boem.gov/sites/default/ 

files/renewable-energy-program/StateActivities/NC/NC-EA-CameraFONSI.pdf. Concurrently with its 

preparation of the EA, BOEM conducted 

consultations under the Endangered 

Species Act (ESA), the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act, and the Coastal Zone 

Management Act. BOEM prepared and 

executed a programmatic agreement 

(PA) to guide its consultations under 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act. The PA provides for 

consultations to continue through 

BOEM’s decision-making process 

regarding the issuance of leases on the 

OCS. Also included in the PA is 

BOEM’s phased identification and 

evaluation of historic properties. On 

August 13, 2021, BOEM announced its 

intent to prepare a Supplemental EA 

(SEA) to the 2015 Commercial Wind 

Lease Issuance and Site Assessment 

Activities on the Atlantic Outer 

Continental Shelf Offshore North 

Carolina—Revised Environmental 

Assessment. This announcement 

opened a 30-day comment period that 

closed on September 13, 2021. The SEA 

evaluated current science, studies, 

circumstances, and other information 

relevant to reasonably foreseeable 

environmental impacts from site 

characterization activities and site 

assessment activities associated with 

issuing wind energy leases in the 

Wilmington East WEA. Some of this 

new information includes a recent 

marine cultural resources survey, 

changes in the status of some ESA-listed 

species, the listing of new endangered 

species, and the designation of the 

North Atlantic right whale critical 

habitat. On December 8, 2021, BOEM 

announced the availability of the Draft 

SEA. This announcement opened a 30- 

day comment period that closed on 

January 7, 2022. BOEM received 11 


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comments on the Draft SEA, which can 

be found at http://www.regulations.gov 

under Docket No. BOEM–2021–0090. 

The SEA was subsequently revised 

based on comments received during the 

comment period and public information 

meetings. The availability of the Final 

SEA and Finding of No Significant 

Impact was announced on March 21, 

2022. BOEM determined that the 

Proposed Action would not cause any 

significant impacts and that 

implementing the Proposed Action does 

not constitute a major Federal action 

significantly affecting the quality of the 

human environment within the meaning 

of section 102(2)(c) of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969. 

BOEM will conduct additional 

environmental reviews upon receipt of 

a lessee’s proposed project-specific 

plans, such as a Site Assessment Plan 

(SAP) or Construction and Operations 

Plan (COP). 

VI. NEW AND MODIFIED LEASE 

STIPULATIONS: Based on feedback 

provided, BOEM is adding lease 

stipulations that were discussed 

conceptually in the PSN. BOEM is also 

refining some stipulations identified in 

the PSN and previous lease packages. 

a. Reporting requirements: In an effort 

to require early and regular engagement 

with Tribal Nations, ocean users, 

underserved communities, agencies and 

other stakeholders that may be 

potentially affected by activities on the 

OCS (collectively ‘‘Tribal Nations and 

parties’’), BOEM is building upon an 

existing lease stipulation to require a 

semi-annual progress report. Within the 

progress report, Lessees will identify 

Tribal Nations and parties potentially 

affected by proposed activities and 

provide updates on engagement 

activities, impacts on or benefits to the 

Tribal Nations and parties due to the 

proposed activities, and how, if at all, a 

project proposal has been informed or 

altered to address those impacts or 

benefits, as well as any planned 

engagement activities during the next 

reporting period. In acknowledgment of 

the existing and growing consultation 

burden placed on many of the Tribal 

Nations and parties, the stipulation also 

requires, to the maximum extent 

practicable, that Lessees coordinate with 

one another on engagement activities. It 

is BOEM’s intention that this 

requirement to coordinate engagement 

apply not only to meetings proposed by 

Lessees, but also to reasonable requests 

to coordinate engagement made by 

Tribal Nations and parties. In addition, 

the stipulation requires that the progress 

report incorporate separate lease 

requirements for the development of 

communication plans for fisheries 

(Fisheries Communication Plan (FCP)), 

Tribal Nations (Native American Tribes 

Communication Plan), and agencies 

(Agency Communication Plan), which 

serve to guide engagement activities 

with those groups. Lastly, the progress 

report must also include an update on 

activities executed under any survey 

plan. 

b. Transmission Planning: BOEM is 

continuing a planned approach to siting 

submarine electrical transmission cables 

on the OCS and is evaluating options, 

including the use of cable corridors, 

regional transmission systems, meshed 

systems, and other mechanisms. 

Therefore, BOEM may condition COP 

approval on the incorporation of such 

methods where appropriate. BOEM 

encourages those who obtain a lease(s) 

from this sale to engage in early 

coordination with adjacent lessees, 

states, Tribal Nations, and other ocean 

users to identify ways to minimize 

impacts from transmission. In addition, 

BOEM has modified the lease 

stipulations concerning lessee 

communication with Tribal Nations and 

parties to explicitly require the lessee to 

seek input and discussion surrounding 

transmission easements prior to 

proposing such easements. 

c. Birds and Bats: As a result of 

BOEM’s ESA consultation efforts, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a 

letter on October 15, 2021, 

recommending the installation of 

automated Motus telemetry tracking 

stations on meteorological buoys to help 

address information gaps on offshore 

movements of birds and bats, including 

ESA-listed species. Therefore, BOEM is 

including a stipulation requiring the use 

of such tracking stations. 

d. Project Labor Agreements and 

Supply Chain: BOEM is committed to a 

clean energy future, workforce 

development and safety, and the 

establishment of a durable domestic 

supply chain that can sustain the U.S. 

offshore wind energy industry. To 

advance this vision, BOEM has included 

two lease stipulations that will 

encourage construction efficiency for 

projects and contribute towards 

establishing a domestic supply chain: 

i. The first stipulation requires lessees 

to make every reasonable effort to enter 

a project labor agreement covering the 

construction stage of any project 

proposed for the lease areas. The PLA 

provisions for the construction of an 

offshore wind project will apply to all 

contractors. 

ii. The second stipulation requires 

lessees to establish a statement of goals 

in which the lessee will describe its 

plans for contributing to the creation of 

a robust and resilient U.S.-based 

offshore wind industry supply chain. 

The lessee must provide regular 

progress updates on the achievement of 

those goals to BOEM, and BOEM will 

make those updates publicly available. 

e. Surface Structure Layout and 

Orientation: In the PSN, BOEM solicited 

comments on proposed transit corridors. 

The USCG has informed BOEM that the 

term ‘‘transit corridor’’ is not defined or 

recognized in law, regulation, or 

international convention. As such, the 

use of the term will likely add 

confusion. BOEM will not use the term 

in this sale or future lease sales or other 

actions. The final lease area delineations 

do not include a buffer of non-leased 

area between the two lease boundaries. 

However, where each lease abuts the 

neighboring lease area, each lessee must 

endeavor to implement a layout of 

surface structures that facilitates 

activities on the lease and allows for a 

structure layout that contains two 

common lines of orientation across the 

adjacent leases (as described in 

Navigation and Vessel Inspection 

Circular 01–19). Where such a design 

cannot be agreed upon among adjacent 

lessees, each lessee will be required to 

incorporate a 1-nmi setback from the 

boundary of the neighboring lease 

where no surface structures will be 

permitted. 

f. Endangered Species Act 

Programmatic Consultation: BOEM has 

completed a programmatic informal 

consultation with the National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS) under section 

7 of the ESA. Federal partners that were 

co-action agencies on the programmatic 

informal consultation include the 

Bureau of Safety and Environmental 

Enforcement, U.S. Army Corp of 

Engineers, and the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency. On June 29, 2021, 

NMFS issued a Letter of Concurrence 

under the ESA (https://www.boem.gov/ 

renewable-energy/final-nlaa-oswprogrammatic) that covers site 

characterization (high resolution 

geophysical (HRG) and geotechnical 

avian, and marine mammal surveys) and 

site assessment and data collection 

(deployment, operation, and retrieval of 

meteorological and oceanographic data 

buoys) activities associated with 

Atlantic OCS leases. As a result of this 

consultation, project design criteria 

(PDCs) and best management practices 

(BMPs) associated with the mitigation, 

monitoring, and reporting conditions 

have been developed for those data 

collection activities covered in the 

consultation. The PDCs and BMPs 

pertain to mitigation, monitoring, and 

reporting conditions for reducing noise 

exposure to protected species from HRG 

surveys, avoiding vessel interactions 


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with protected species, and requiring 

mooring design and marine debris 

practices to avoid entanglement of listed 

species. BOEM requires mitigation, 

monitoring, and reporting conditions for 

all marine mammals. As applicable, 

these PDCs and BMPs will be lease 

requirements for the lease areas and are 

found in the document Project Design 

Criteria and Best Management Practices 

for Data Collection Associated with 

Atlantic Offshore Wind Leases located 

at: https://www.boem.gov/renewableenergy/nmfs-esa-consultations. 

VII. POTENTIAL FUTURE 

RESTRICTIONS: Prospective bidders 

should be aware of potential conflicts 

with existing uses of the OCS by the 

Department of Defense (DOD) and 

USCG, among others. BOEM coordinates 

with the DOD and USCG throughout our 

leasing process. A February 2021 letter 

from the DOD summarizes our most 

recent consultations and is available at: 

https://www.boem.gov/renewableenergy/state-activities/carolina-longbay. Once BOEM receives a SAP or 

COP, we will further review the 

proposed project’s potential impacts on 

other ocean uses as part of BOEM’s 

environmental and project review 

process. This analysis could result in 

the identification of potential mitigation 

measures and/or terms and conditions 

as part of any potential project approval. 

VIII. LEASE TERMS AND 

CONDITIONS: BOEM has included 

terms, conditions, and stipulations for 

the OCS commercial wind leases to be 

offered through this sale. After the 

leases are issued, BOEM reserves the 

right to require compliance with 

additional terms and conditions 

associated with approval of a SAP or 

COP. The leases are available on 

BOEM’s website at: https://

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/carolina-long-bay. The leases 

include the following five attachments: 

• Addendum ‘‘A’’ (Description of 

Leased Area and Lease Activities); 

• Addendum ‘‘B’’ (Lease Term and 

Financial Schedule); 

• Addendum ‘‘C’’ (Lease Specific 

Terms, Conditions, and Stipulations); 

• Addendum ‘‘D’’ (Project Easement); 

and 

• Addendum ‘‘E’’ (Rent Schedule). 

Addenda ‘‘A,’’ ‘‘B,’’ and ‘‘C’’ provide 

detailed descriptions of lease terms and 

conditions. Addenda ‘‘D’’ and ‘‘E’’ will 

be completed at the time of COP 

approval or approval with 

modifications. 

The most recent version of BOEM’s 

renewable energy commercial lease 

form (BOEM–0008) is available on 

BOEM’s website at: http://

www.boem.gov/BOEM-OCS-OperationForms/. 

Pursuant to 30 CFR 585.601, a 

leaseholder wishing to submit a SAP 

must do so within 12 months of lease 

issuance. If the lessee intends to 

continue to hold the lease into its 

operations term, the lessee must submit 

a COP at least 6 months before the end 

of the site assessment term. 

IX. FINANCIAL TERMS AND 

CONDITIONS: This section provides an 

overview of the annual payments 

required of the lessee that will be fully 

described in the lease, and the financial 

assurance requirements that will be 

associated with the lease. 

a. Rent: Pursuant to 30 CFR 

585.224(b) and 585.503, the first year’s 

rent payment of $3 per acre is due 

within 45-calendar days of the date the 

lessee receives the lease for execution. 

Thereafter, annual rent payments are 

due on the anniversary of the effective 

date of the lease as defined in 30 CFR 

585.237 (the ‘‘Lease Anniversary’’). 

Once commercial operations under the 

lease begin, BOEM will charge rent only 

for the portions of the lease remaining 

undeveloped (i.e., non-operating 

acreage). The rent that would be due 

should no portion of each lease area be 

authorized for commercial operations is 

shown below. 

Lease Total 

acres 

Rent 

due 

(per year) 

OCS–A 0545 .............. 54,937 $164,811 

OCS–A 0546 .............. 55,154 165,462 

Total ........................ 110,091 330,273 

If the lessee submits an application 

for relinquishment of a portion of its 

leased area within the first 45-calendar 

days following the date that the lease is 

received by the lessee for execution, and 

BOEM approves that application, no 

rent payment will be due on the 

relinquished portion of the lease area. 

Later relinquishments of any portion of 

the lease area will reduce the lessee’s 

rent payments starting in the lease year 

following BOEM’s approval of the 

relinquishment. A lease issued under 

this part confers on the lessee the right 

to one or more project easements 

without further competition for the 

purpose of installing gathering, 

transmission, and distribution cables; 

pipelines; and appurtenances on the 

OCS as necessary for the full enjoyment 

of the lease. A lessee must apply for the 

project easement as part of your COP or 

GAP, as provided under subpart F of 30 

CFR part 585. The lessee must also pay 

rent for any project easement associated 

with the lease, commencing on the date 

that BOEM approves the COP (or 

modification thereof) that describes the 

project easement and when the 

operations term begins as outlined in 30 

CFR 585.500(a)(5) and 585.507(b). 

Annual rent for a project easement is $5 

per acre, subject to a minimum of $450 

per year. 

b. Operating Fee: For purposes of 

calculating the initial annual operating 

fee payment pursuant to 30 CFR 

585.506, BOEM applies an operating fee 

rate to a proxy for the wholesale market 

value of the electricity expected to be 

generated from the project during its 

first 12 months of operations. This 

initial payment will be prorated to 

reflect the period between the 

commencement of commercial 

operations and the Lease Anniversary. 

The initial annual operating fee 

payment is due within 45 days of the 

commencement of commercial 

operations. Thereafter, subsequent 

annual operating fee payments are due 

on or before the Lease Anniversary. 

The subsequent annual operating fee 

payments are calculated by multiplying 

the operating fee rate by the imputed 

wholesale market value of the projected 

annual electric power production. For 

the purposes of this calculation, the 

imputed market value would be the 

product of the project’s annual 

nameplate capacity, the total number of 

hours in the year (8,760), the capacity 

factor, and the annual average price of 

electricity derived from a regional 

wholesale power price index. For 

example, the annual operating fee for a 

1,028-megawatt (MW) wind facility 

operating at a 40 percent capacity (i.e., 

capacity factor of 0.4) with an annual 

average regional wholesale power price 

of $40/megawatt hour (MWh) and an 

operating fee rate of 0.02 will be 

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i. Operating Fee Rate: The operating 

fee rate is the share of imputed 

wholesale market value of the projected 

annual electric power production due to 

the Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

as an annual operating fee. For the Lease 

Areas, BOEM will set the fee rate at 0.02 

(i.e., 2 percent) for the entire life of 

commercial operations. 

ii. Nameplate Capacity: Nameplate 

capacity is the maximum rated electric 

output, expressed in MW, that the 

turbines of the wind facility under 

commercial operations can produce at 

their rated wind speed, as designated by 

the turbine’s manufacturer. The 

nameplate capacity available at the start 

of each year of commercial operations 

on the lease will be the capacity 

provided in the Fabrication and 

Installation Report (FIR). For example, if 

the lessee installed 100 turbines as 

documented in its FIR, and each is rated 

by the manufacturer at 12 MW, the 

nameplate capacity of the wind facility 

is 1,200 MW. 

iii. Capacity Factor: The capacity 

factor relates to the amount of energy 

delivered to the grid during a period of 

time compared to the amount of energy 

the wind facility would have produced 

at full capacity during that same period 

of time. This factor is represented as a 

decimal between zero and one. There 

are several reasons why the amount of 

power delivered is less than the 

theoretical 100 percent of capacity. For 

a wind facility, the capacity factor is 

mostly determined by the availability of 

wind. Transmission line loss and 

downtime for maintenance or other 

purposes also affect the capacity factor. 

The capacity factor for the year in 

which the commercial operation date 

occurs, and for the first 6 years of 

commercial operations on the lease, is 

set to 0.4 (i.e., 40 percent). At the end 

of the sixth year, the capacity factor may 

be adjusted to reflect the performance 

over the previous five years based upon 

the actual metered electricity generation 

at the delivery point to the electrical 

grid. Similar adjustments to the capacity 

factor may be made once every five 

years thereafter. 

iv. Wholesale Power Price Index: 

Pursuant to 30 CFR 585.506(c)(2)(i), the 

wholesale power price, expressed in 

dollars per MW-hour, is determined at 

the time each annual operating fee 

payment is due. For the leases offered 

in this sale, BOEM will use the index for 

VACAR average price per MW from the 

Enerfax power prices dataset within 

Hitachi’s ABB Velocity Suite or similar. 

VACAR is a subregion of the 

Southeastern Electric Reliability 

Council and comprises the Carolinas 

and parts of Virginia. The VACAR 

average price per megawatt represents 

prices from Duke, Progress Energy’s 

Carolina Power and Light, Santee 

Cooper, South Carolina Electric and 

Gas, Southeastern Power 

Administration, and APGI Yadkin 

Division. 

c. Financial Assurance: Within 10- 

business days after receiving the lease 

copies and pursuant to 30 CFR 585.515– 

.516, the provisional winners of the 

leases must provide an initial leasespecific bond or other approved means 

of meeting the lessor’s initial financial 

assurance requirements, in the amount 

of $100,000. The provisional winners 

may meet financial assurance 

requirements by posting a surety bond 

or financial assurance instrument or 

alternative detailed in 30 CFR 585.526– 

529. BOEM encourages the 

provisionally winning bidder to discuss 

the financial assurance requirement 

with BOEM as soon as possible after the 

auction has concluded. 

BOEM will base the amount of all 

SAP, COP, and decommissioning 

financial assurance on cost estimates for 

meeting all accrued lease obligations at 

the respective stages of development. 

BOEM will determine the required 

amount of supplemental and 

decommissioning financial assurance on 

a case-by-case basis. 

d. Payments: The annual lease 

payments and financial assurance 

requirements described above can be 

found in Addendum ‘‘B’’ of the leases, 

which BOEM has made available with 

this notice on its website at: https://

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/carolina-long-bay. 

X. BFF: Each bidder must fill out the 

BFF referenced in this FSN. BOEM has 

also made a copy of the form available 

with this notice on its website at: 

https://www.boem.gov/renewableenergy/state-activities/carolina-longbay. 

BOEM recommends that each bidder 

designate an email address in its BFF 

that the bidder will then use to create 

an account in pay.gov (if it has not 

already done so). Bidders who elect to 

qualify for the bidding credit will check 

the paragraph affirming their interest on 

their BFF and include a conceptual 

strategy at the time of the bid deposit. 

Bidders committing to the bidding 

credit must meet the bidding credit 

requirements before submission of the 

FDR. Bidders who do not elect to 

qualify may indicate by a check mark 

next to the paragraph declining the 

bidding credit. If a BFF does not 

indicate a selection, BOEM will assume 

no bidding credit is desired. BOEM will 

not consider BFFs submitted by bidders 

for previous lease sales as satisfying the 

requirements of this auction. If a bidder 

does not submit a BFF for this sale by 

April 11, 2022, BOEM, in its sole 

discretion, may grant an extension to 

that bidder only if BOEM determines 

the bidder’s failure to timely submit a 

BFF was caused by events beyond the 

bidder’s control. BOEM will only accept 

an original, executed paper copy of the 

BFF. The BFF must be executed by an 

authorized representative listed in the 

qualifications package on file with 

BOEM as authorized to bind the 

company. 

XI. BID DEPOSIT: A bid deposit is an 

advance cash payment submitted to 

BOEM to participate in the auction. 

After creating an account in pay.gov (if 

necessary), bidders may use the Bid 

Deposit Form on the pay.gov website to 

leave a deposit. Each bidder must 

submit a bid deposit of $2,000,000 or 

$4,000,000 to be eligible to bid for one 

or two lease areas, respectively, no later 

than April 25, 2022. Any bidder who 

fails to submit the bid deposit by this 

deadline may be disqualified from 

participating in the auction. 

Following the auction, bid deposits 

will be applied against bonus bids or 

other obligations owed to BOEM. If the 

bid deposit exceeds a bidder’s total 

financial obligation, BOEM will refund 

the balance of the bid deposit to the 

bidder. Once BOEM has announced the 

provisional winner(s), BOEM will 

refund bid deposits to the other bidders. 

If BOEM offers a lease pursuant to a 

provisionally winning bidder and that 

bidder fails to timely return the signed 

lease form, establish financial 

assurance, or pay the balance of its bid, 

BOEM will retain the bidder’s 

$2,000,000 (or $4,000,000) bid deposit. 

In such a circumstance, BOEM may 

determine which bid would have won 

in the absence of the bid previously 

determined to be the winning bid and 

to offer a lease pursuant to this next 

highest bid if it has not won one the 

other Lease Area. 

XII. MINIMUM BID: The minimum 

bid is the lowest bid that BOEM will 

accept as a winning bid, and it is where 

BOEM will start the bidding in the 

auction. 30 CFR 585.221. BOEM has 

established a minimum bid of $50.00 

per acre for this lease sale. 

XIII. AUCTION PROCEDURES: As 

authorized under 30 CFR 585.220(a)(4) 

and 585.221(a)(6), BOEM will use a 

multiple-factor auction format, with a 

multiple-factor bidding system for this 

lease sale. The bidding system for this 

lease sale will be a multiple-factor 

combination of a monetary bid and a 

non-monetary factor. This auction 

format was selected to enhance, through 

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stand-up the domestic supply chain for 

offshore wind manufacturing, assembly, 

or services, and is designed to lead to 

expeditious and orderly development of 

offshore wind resources on the OCS. 

BOEM will appoint a panel to review 

the non-monetary component after the 

BFFs and bid deposits have been 

received but before the auction, and the 

panel will verify the results of the lease 

sale. Following review of the strategy to 

support workforce training programs for 

the offshore wind industry, 

development of a U.S. domestic supply 

chain for the offshore wind energy 

industry, or both, BOEM will notify 

bidders if they qualify for the credit 

prior to the mock auction. BOEM 

reserves the right to change the 

composition of this panel at any time. 

The bid made by a particular bidder in 

each round will represent the sum of a 

monetary (cash) amount and a nonmonetary factor (bidding credit). The 

structure of this bidding credit is 

explained in the subsection below. 

BOEM will start the auction using the 

minimum bid price for each Lease Area 

and will increase those prices 

incrementally until no more than one 

active bidder per Lease Area remains in 

the auction. 

20 Percent Non-Monetary (Bidding) 

Credit for Workforce Training or 

Supply Chain Development 

The bidding credit allows a bidder to 

receive a credit of 20 percent of its cash 

bid in exchange for committing to make 

a qualifying monetary contribution 

(‘‘Contribution’’) to programs or 

initiatives, as described in the BFF 

Addendum and lease, that support 

workforce training programs for the 

offshore wind industry, development of 

a U.S. domestic supply chain for the 

offshore wind energy industry, or both. 

To qualify for the credit, the winning 

bidder is required to financially 

contribute at least 80 percent of the 

bidding credit value toward a workforce 

training program or the development of 

a domestic supply chain, as described in 

the BFF Addendum and lease. For 

example, a winning bidder qualified for 

the bidding credit and meeting the 

asking price of $31.32 million would 

receive a credit of $5.22 million toward 

its winning bid in exchange for a $4.176 

million (80 percent of $5.22 million) 

commitment to workforce training or 

development of the domestic supply 

chain. The bidding credit would be 

calculated as follows: 

i. If a bidder qualified for the bidding 

credit wins both lease areas, this 

calculation would be applied to its bid 

for both lease areas. 

ii. The Contribution to workforce 

training must result in a better trained 

and/or larger domestic offshore wind 

work force that would provide for more 

efficient operations via increasing the 

supply of fully trained personnel, 

pursuant to congressional policy under 

43 U.S.C. 1332(6), which states that 

operations on the OCS should be 

conducted in a safe manner by welltrained personnel. 

iii. The Contribution to domestic 

supply chain development must result 

in a more robust domestic supply chain 

by reducing the upfront capital or 

certification cost for manufacturing 

offshore wind components including 

the building of facilities, the purchasing 

of capital equipment, and the certifying 

of existing manufacturing facilities in 

the United States, which would 

facilitate congressional policy set forth 

in 43 U.S.C. 1332(3) to promote 

expeditious and orderly development 

on the OCS. 

iv. Bidders interested in pursuing 

bidding credits can choose to commit to 

workforce training programs, domestic 

supply chain initiatives, or a 

combination of both. Bidders must note, 

on the BFF, whether they are making 

the commitment to earn the bidding 

credit. Bidders seeking to utilize the 

bidding credit must submit their 

strategy, further described below and in 

the BFF Addendum, prior to the 

deadline for the submission of the bid 

deposit. Bidders are strongly 

encouraged to review the BFF 

Addendum if they are considering 

qualifying for the bidding credit. The 

strategy must describe the verifiable 

actions to be taken by the lessee that 

would allow BOEM to confirm 

compliance when your documentation 

for satisfying the bidding credit is 

submitted. Payment fulfilling the 

commitment can be deferred until 

submission of the facility design report 

(FDR) to BOEM. Lessees must provide 

documentation showing that the lessee 

has met the commitment and complied 

with the applicable bidding credit 

requirements no later than the 

submission to BOEM of the first Facility 

Design Report (FDR) for the Lease. 

Deferring the payment until the FDR 

will enable the lessee to identify 

programs or recipients with the greatest 

potential to expedite or facilitate orderly 

OCS renewable energy development. 

v. Contributions to workforce training 

must be to one of the following: (i) 

Contributions in support of union 

apprenticeships, labor management 

training partnerships, stipends for 

workforce training, or other technical 

training programs or institutions 

focused on providing skills necessary 

for the planning, design, construction, 

operation, maintenance, or 

decommissioning of offshore wind 

energy projects in the United States; (ii) 

Contributions toward maritime training 

necessary for the crewing of vessels to 

be used for the construction, servicing, 

and/or decommissioning of wind energy 

projects in the United States; (iii) 

Contributions toward training workers 

in skills or techniques necessary to 

manufacture or assemble offshore wind 

components, subcomponents or 

subassemblies. Examples of these skills 

and techniques include welding; wind 

energy technology; hydraulic 

maintenance; braking systems; 

mechanical systems, including blade 

inspection and maintenance; or 

computers and programmable logic 

control systems; (iv) Contributions 

toward training in any other job skills 

that the Lessee can demonstrate are 

necessary for the planning, design, 

construction, operation, maintenance, or 

decommissioning of offshore wind 

energy projects in the United States. 

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following: (i) Contributions supporting 

the development of a domestic supply 

chain for the offshore wind industry, 

including manufacturing of components 

and sub-assemblies and the expansion 

of related services; (ii) Contributions to 

domestic tier-2 and tier-3 offshore wind 

component suppliers and domestic tier1 supply chain efforts, including quayside fabrication; (iii) Contributions for 

technical assistance grants to help U.S. 

manufacturers re-tool or certify (e.g., 

ISO–9001) for offshore wind 

manufacturing; (iv) Contributions for 

the development of Jones Act-compliant 

vessels for the construction, servicing, 

and/or decommissioning of wind energy 

projects in the United States; (v) 

Contributions to establish a new or 

existing bonding support reserve or 

revolving fund available to all 

businesses providing goods and services 

to offshore wind energy companies, 

including disadvantaged businesses; (vi) 

Other Contributions to supply chain 

development efforts that the Lessee can 

demonstrate further the manufacture of 

offshore wind components or 

subassemblies, or the provision of 

offshore wind services, in the United 

States. 

vii. Documentation: If a lease is 

awarded pursuant to a winning bid that 

includes the bidding credit, the lessee 

will be required to provide 

documentation showing that the lessee 

has met the commitment and complied 

with the applicable bidding credit 

requirements no later than the 

submission to BOEM of the first Facility 

Design Report (FDR) for the Lease. The 

documentation must allow BOEM to 

objectively verify the amount of the 

Contribution and the beneficiary(ies) of 

the Contribution. At a minimum, this 

documentation must include: All 

written agreements between the Lessee 

and beneficiary(ies) of the Contribution; 

all receipts documenting the amount, 

date, financial institution, and the 

account and owner of account to which 

the Contribution was made; and sworn 

statements by the entity that made the 

Contribution and the beneficiary(ies) of 

the Contribution, attesting: The amount 

and date(s) of the Contribution; that the 

Contribution is being (or will be) used 

in accordance with the bidding credit 

requirements in the Lease; and that all 

information provided is true and 

accurate. The documentation must 

describe how the funded initiative or 

program has advanced, or is expected to 

advance, U.S. offshore wind workforce 

training or supply chain development. 

The documentation must also provide 

qualitative and/or quantitative 

information that includes the estimated 

number of trainees or jobs supported, or 

the estimated leveraged supply chain 

investment resulting or expected to 

result from the Contribution. The 

documentation must contain any 

information called for in the conceptual 

strategy submitted with the bid deposit. 

If the Lessee’s implementation strategy 

has changed due to market needs or 

other factors, the Lessee must explain 

this change. BOEM reserves all rights to 

determine that the bidding credit has 

not been satisfied if changes to the 

lessee’s conceptual strategy do not meet 

the criteria for the bidding credit 

described herein. 

viii. Enforcement: The commitment 

for the bidding credit will be made in 

the BFF and will be included in a lease 

addendum that will bind the lessee and 

all future assignees of the lease. If 

BOEM determines that a Lessee or 

assignee has failed to satisfy the 

commitment at the FDR stage, or if a 

Lessee or assignee relinquishes or 

otherwise fails to develop the Lease by 

the tenth anniversary date of Lease 

issuance, the amount corresponding to 

the bidding credit awarded shall be 

immediately due and payable to the 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

with interest from the date of lease 

execution. The interest rate will be the 

underpayment interest rate identified by 

ONRR. BOEM may, at its sole 

discretion, extend the documentation 

deadline beyond the FDR or the 10-year 

timeframe. 

The Auction: Using an online bidding 

system to host the auction, BOEM will 

start the bidding for Lease Area OCS–A 

0545 and OCS–A 0546. Bidders may bid 

for one or both lease areas offered and 

could ultimately win one or both areas. 

Lease area Acres Minimum 

bid 

OCS–A 0545 ............ 54,937 $2,746,850 

OCS–A 0546 ............ 55,154 2,757,700 

a. Live Bids: The auction will be 

conducted in a series of rounds. At the 

start of each round, BOEM will state an 

asking price for each Lease Area. If a 

bidder is willing to meet the asking 

price for up to two of the Lease Areas 

(if eligible), it will indicate its intent by 

submitting a bid equal to the asking 

price for the selected lease area(s). A bid 

for one or both lease areas at the sum 

of the full asking price is referred to as 

a ‘‘live bid.’’ If the bidder has qualified 

for a non-monetary credit, it will meet 

the asking price by submitting a 

multiple-factor bid—that is, a live bid 

that consists of a monetary (cash) 

element and a non-monetary credit (20 

percent of the cash element), the sum of 

which equals the asking price. Bidders 

without a non-monetary credit will 

submit a cash bid equal to the asking 

price. To participate in the next round 

of the auction, a bidder must have 

submitted a live bid for at least one of 

the Lease Areas in each previous round, 

or BOEM must have carried forward a 

bidder’s bid from a previous round. 

As long as there are two or more live 

bids (including bids carried forward) for 

at least one of the Lease Areas, the 

auction moves to the next round. If a bid 

is uncontested, it is automatically 

carried forward to the next round. 

BOEM will raise the asking price for 

each of the Lease Areas that has 

received two or more live bids in the 

previous round. Asking price 

increments will be determined based on 

several factors, including (but not 

necessarily limited to) the expected time 

needed to conduct the auction and the 

number of rounds that have already 

occurred. BOEM reserves the right to 

increase or decrease bidding increments 

as it deems appropriate. 

Each bidder is allowed to submit a 

live bid for up to two lease areas based 

on its ‘‘eligibility’’ at the opening of 

each round. A bidder’s eligibility is for 

either two, one, or zero lease areas, and 

corresponds to the maximum number of 

lease areas that a bidder may include in 

a live bid during a single round of the 

auction. A bidder’s initial eligibility is 

determined based on the amount of the 

bid deposit submitted by the bidder 

prior to the auction. To be eligible to 

offer a bid on one lease area at the start 

of the auction, a bidder must submit a 

bid deposit of $2,000,000. To be eligible 

to offer a bid on two lease areas, a 

bidder must submit a bid deposit of 

$4,000,000. A bidder’s bid deposit will 

be used by BOEM as a down payment 

on any monetary obligations incurred by 

the bidder should it be awarded a lease. 

As the auction proceeds, a bidder’s 

eligibility is determined by the number 

of lease areas included in its live bid 

submitted in the round prior to the 

current round. That is, if a bidder 

submitted a live bid on one lease area 

in the previous round, that bidder may 

submit a bid that includes at most one 

lease area in the current round. If a 

bidder submitted a live bid that 

included two lease areas in the previous 

round, the bidder may submit a live bid 

that includes at most two lease areas in 

the current round. When a bidder 

chooses to submit a live bid with fewer 

lease areas than the maximum number 

it is eligible to include in its bid, the 

bidder’s eligibility is permanently 

reduced. Thus, eligibility in successive 

rounds may stay the same or go down, 

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If a bidder decides to stop bidding 

when its bid is contested, that bidder 

could still win the auction, if, for 

example, the bidder is ultimately 

selected as the provisional winner in the 

winner determination that is described 

in detail below, or if someone else’s 

winning bid is disqualified at the award 

stage of the auction. In these 

circumstances, the bidder will be bound 

by its bid and thus obligated to pay the 

full bid amount. A bidder is bound to 

each of its bids at all times prior to the 

finalization of the auction results. 

Between rounds, BOEM will disclose 

to all bidders that submitted bids: (1) 

The number of live bids in the previous 

round of the auction (i.e., the level of 

demand at the asking price) for each 

Lease Area; and (2) the asking price for 

each Lease Area in the upcoming round 

of the auction. 

b. Intra-round Bids: A bidder is only 

eligible to continue bidding in the 

auction if it has submitted a live bid (or 

had a bid carried forward) in the 

previous round. In any round after the 

first round, an eligible bidder may 

submit an ‘‘intra-round’’ bid. An intraround bid is similar to an ‘‘exit bid.’’ 

An intra-round bid consists of a single 

offer price for exactly the same lease 

areas on which the bidder placed a live 

bid in the previous round. The single 

offer price must be greater than the sum 

of the previous round’s asking prices for 

the same lease areas bid on in the 

previous round and less than the sum of 

the current round’s asking prices for the 

same lease areas. A bidder may not 

submit an intra-round bid in the current 

round if its previous round bid was 

uncontested or if its eligibility had 

previously dropped to zero lease areas. 

A bidder that has submitted a live bid 

for two leases in the previous round 

may choose to submit a single intraround bid in the current round for the 

two lease areas. A bidder submitting an 

intra-round bid for two lease areas can 

either: 

(1) Choose to also submit a live bid for 

either one of the two lease areas. Doing 

this sets the bidder’s eligibility to one 

lease area and allows the bidder to 

continue to place a live bid for one lease 

area in the next round. 

(2) Choose not to submit a live bid for 

either of the two lease areas. Doing this 

sets the bidder’s eligibility to zero lease 

areas and precludes the possibility of 

this bidder submitting any bids in the 

next round or any further round of the 

auction. 

A bidder that has submitted a live bid 

for one lease area in the previous round 

may choose to submit an intra-round 

bid in the current round (for that one 

lease area). Placing an intra-round bid 

that includes one lease area terminates 

the bidder’s ability to submit 

subsequent bids. 

For example, consider the case of a 

bidder who has bid on both lease areas 

in the previous rounds, and hence is 

eligible to continue bidding on both 

lease areas in the current round. 

Suppose that the asking prices for OCS– 

A 0545 and OCS–A 0546 were 

$10,000,000 and $11,000,000 in the 

previous round and are now 

$10,000,000 and $12,000,000 in the 

current round, respectively. OCS–A 

0546 received competition in the 

previous round, resulting in its 

increased price, but there was not 

competition for OCS–A 0545. Since the 

bidder placed a bid on both lease areas, 

with one of the lease areas having 

competition, the bidder may enter a 

single, intra-round bid for both areas 

that it bid on in the previous round. 

This single offer price must be more 

than $21,000,000 and less than 

$22,000,000. If the bidder wishes to 

continue to place bids in the auction, 

the bidder must also place a live bid for 

a single lease area in the same round. 

The bidder can satisfy this requirement 

by choosing to submit (along with its 

intra-round bid) a single live bid of 

$10,000,000 for OCS–A 0545 or 

$12,000,000 for OCS–A 0546. 

Alternatively, the bidder may choose 

not to submit any live bid, precluding 

the ability to place bids in future 

rounds. 

If the bidder had only bid on one 

lease area in the previous round, it may 

be eligible to submit an intra-round bid 

during the current round. If its previous 

round’s bid was for OCS–A 0546, the 

bidder could submit an intra-round bid 

for that area of more than $11,000,000 

and less than $12,000,000, reducing its 

live bid eligibility to zero lease areas, 

and hence precluding bids in 

subsequent rounds. Alternatively, if the 

bidder’s previous round’s bid was on 

OCS–A 0545, it cannot submit an intraround bid (or any other bid), because 

the previous round’s bid was 

uncontested. In this case, since the 

bidder had no competition for OCS–A 

0546, its sole bid of $10,000,000 from 

the previous round is automatically 

recorded by BOEM as a submitted live 

bid of the same amount for that lease 

area in the current round. 

Bidders are cautioned that dropping 

immediately from bidding on two lease 

areas to bidding on zero lease areas, 

without placing any live bid on one 

lease area, as in bidding option (2) 

(above), has implications for the winner 

determination described below. Such 

bidding behavior would signify that the 

bidder wishes only to win both lease 

areas or neither lease area. As such, 

dropping immediately from two to zero 

can lead to potentially counterintuitive 

results in which the bidder wins 

nothing in the auction. 

Intra-round bids are not considered to 

be live bids for the purpose of 

determining whether to conclude the 

auction, for determining whether to 

increase the asking price for a particular 

lease area, or for disclosing the demand 

for a lease area. During the auction, an 

intra-round bid can only be seen by 

BOEM, and not by other bidders. 

After the bidding ends, BOEM will 

determine the provisionally winning 

bids in accordance with the process 

described in this section. This process 

consists of two stages: Stage 1 and Stage 

2, which are described herein. Once the 

auction itself ends, nothing further is 

required of bidders within or between 

Stages 1 and 2. In practice, the two 

stages of the process will be 

implemented by the auction software, 

which will analyze the bids, determine 

the provisional winners, and calculate 

the applicable prices. The winner 

determination will be reviewed, 

checked and validated by the panel. 

• Stage 1 

In Stage 1, a bidder with a live bid in 

the final round is provisionally assured 

of winning the lease area(s) included in 

its final-round live bid, regardless of any 

other bids. If both lease areas receive 

live bids in the final round, they are 

awarded to bidders in Stage 1, and the 

rest of this determination is not 

necessary. Otherwise, BOEM will select 

the combination of final-round bids that 

maximizes the sum of the bid amounts 

of the selected bids, subject to the 

following constraints: (1) A bidder must 

win all lease areas included in its finalround live bid (if any); (2) either a 

bidder’s live bid or intra-round bid, but 

not both, can be selected; and (3) the 

selected bids must be feasible, in that 

each lease area cannot be included in 

more than one of the selected bids. If 

there is a unique combination of bids 

that meets the maximization objective 

described in the previous sentence, then 

these are deemed to be the Qualified 

Bids. If two or more combinations of 

bids tie by producing the same 

maximized sum of bid amounts, the tie 

is broken by: First, bringing each of 

these combinations forward into the 

Stage 2 problem (below) and selecting 

the combination that produces the 

largest value in the Stage 2 problem; and 

second, if two or more of these 

combinations tie in producing the 

largest value, the auction system will 

select one of the combinations by 

generating pseudorandom numbers. If 

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Stage 1, BOEM will proceed to Stage 2 

to attempt to assign the remaining lease 

areas. 

• Stage 2 

In Stage 2, BOEM will consider bids 

from all bidding rounds to determine if 

the lease area(s) not awarded in Stage 1 

can be awarded in Stage 2. The 

combination of bids selected in Stage 1 

are Qualified Bids. BOEM will select the 

combination of bids from all bidding 

rounds that maximizes the sum of the 

bid amounts of the selected bids, subject 

to the following constraints: (1) A 

bidder must win all lease areas included 

in its Qualified Bid (if any); (2) either a 

bidder’s live bid or intra-round bid from 

a single bidding round, but not both, 

can be selected; and (3) the selected bids 

must be feasible, in that each lease area 

cannot be included in more than one of 

the selected bids. If there is a unique 

combination of bids that solves the 

maximization problem, then these are 

deemed to be the provisionally-winning 

bids. If two or more combinations of 

bids tie by producing the same 

maximized sum of bid amounts, the 

auction system will select one of the 

combinations by generating 

pseudorandom numbers. The 

provisional winners will pay the 

amounts of their provisionally winning 

bids. 

c. Provisional Winners: BOEM’s panel 

will review the auction results and 

certify the provisional winners. A 

provisional winner may be disqualified 

if it is subsequently found to have 

violated auction rules or BOEM 

regulations, or otherwise engaged in 

conduct detrimental to the integrity of 

the competitive auction. If a bidder 

submits a bid that BOEM determines to 

be a provisionally winning bid, the 

bidder will be expected to sign the 

applicable lease documents, establish 

financial assurance, and submit the 

balance (if any) of its bonus bid (i.e., 

winning monetary bid less the 

applicable non-monetary bidding credit 

(if appropriate) and bid deposit) within 

10-business days of receiving the lease 

copies, pursuant to 30 CFR 585.224. 

BOEM reserves the right not to issue the 

lease to the provisionally winning 

bidder if that bidder does not timely 

sign the lease copies, does not establish 

all required financial assurance, does 

not pay the balance of its winning bid, 

or otherwise fails to comply with 

applicable regulations or the terms of 

the FSN. In that case, the bidder will 

forfeit its bid deposit. 

BOEM will publish the provisionally 

winning bidder and bid amount. The 

bid results, including exit bids, will be 

published on BOEM’s website after 

review of the results and announcement 

of the provisional winner(s). 

d. Authorized Individuals and Bidder 

Authentication: A company that is 

eligible to participate in the auction will 

identify on its BFF up to three 

individuals who are authorized to bid 

on behalf of the company, including 

their names, business telephone 

numbers, and email addresses. After 

BOEM has processed the bid deposits, 

the auction contractor will send several 

emails to the authorized individuals. 

The emails will contain user login 

information and instructions for 

accessing the bidder manual for the 

auction system and the auction system 

technical supplement (ASTS). 

The auction system will require 

software tokens for two-factor 

authentication. To set up the tokens, 

authorized individuals must download 

an app onto their smartphone or tablet 

with a recent operating system. One of 

the emails sent to authorized 

individuals will contain instructions for 

installing the app and the credentials 

needed to activate the software token. A 

short telephone conversation with the 

auction contractor may also be needed 

to use the credentials. The login 

information, along with the tokens, will 

be tested during the mock auction. If an 

eligible bidder fails to submit a bid 

deposit or does not participate in the 

auction, BOEM will de-activate that 

bidder’s tokens and login information. 

e. Timing of Auction: The auction will 

begin at 9:00 a.m. EDT on May 11, 2022. 

Bidders may log in as early as 8:30 a.m. 

EDT on that day. BOEM recommends 

that bidders log in earlier than 9:00 a.m. 

EDT on that day to ensure that any login 

issues are resolved prior to the start of 

the auction. Once bidders have logged 

in, they should review the auction 

schedule, which lists the anticipated 

start times, end times, and recess times 

of each round in the auction. Each 

round is structured as follows: 

• Round bidding begins; 

• Bidders enter their bids; 

• Round bidding ends and the recess 

begins; 

• During the recess, previous round 

results and next round asking prices are 

posted; 

• Bidders review the previous round 

results and prepare their next round 

bids; and 

• Next round bidding begins. 

The first round will last about 30 

minutes, though subsequent rounds will 

be shorter. Recesses are anticipated to 

last approximately 10 minutes. This 

description of the auction schedule is 

tentative. Bidders should consult the 

auction schedule on the auction system 

during the auction for updated times. 

Bidding will continue until about 6:00 

p.m. EDT each day. BOEM anticipates 

that the auction will last 1- to 2-business 

days, but may continue for additional 

business days as necessary until the 

auction has concluded. 

f. Messaging Service: BOEM and the 

auction contractors will use the auction 

platform messaging service to keep 

bidders informed on issues of interest 

during the auction. For example, BOEM 

may change the schedule at any time, 

including during the auction. If BOEM 

changes the schedule during an auction, 

it will use the messaging feature to 

notify bidders that a revision has been 

made and will direct bidders to the 

relevant page. BOEM will also use the 

messaging system for other updates 

during the auction. 

Bidders may place bids at any time 

during the round. At the top of the 

bidding page, a countdown clock shows 

how much time remains in the round. 

Bidders have until the end of the round 

to place bids. Bidders should place bids 

according to the procedures described 

in this notice and the ASTS. 

Information about the round results will 

only be made available after the round 

has closed, so there is no strategic 

advantage to placing bids early or late 

in the round. 

The ASTS will elaborate on the 

auction procedures described in this 

FSN. In the event of an inconsistency 

between the ASTS and the FSN, the 

FSN is controlling. 

g. Alternate Bidding Procedures: 

Redundancy is the most effective way to 

mitigate technical and human issues 

during an auction. Bidders should 

strongly consider authorizing more than 

one individual to bid in the auction— 

and confirming during the mock auction 

that each individual is able to access the 

auction system. A 4G card or other form 

of wireless access is helpful in case a 

company’s main internet connection 

should fail. As a last resort, an 

authorized individual facing technical 

issues may request to submit its bid by 

telephone. In order to be authorized to 

place a telephone bid, an authorized 

individual must call the help desk 

number listed in the auction manual 

before the end of the round. BOEM will 

authenticate the caller’s identity, 

including requiring the caller to provide 

a code from the software token. The 

caller must also explain the reasons why 

a telephone bid must be submitted. 

BOEM may, in its sole discretion, 

permit or refuse to accept a request for 

the placement of a bid using this 

alternate telephonic bidding procedure. 

h. Prohibition on Communications 

Between Bidders During Auction: 

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prohibited from communicating with 

each other regarding their participation 

in the auction. Also, during the auction, 

bidders are prohibited from 

communicating to the public regarding 

any aspect of their participation or lack 

thereof in the auction, including, but 

not limited to, through social media, 

updated websites, or press releases. 

XIV. POST-AUCTION PROCEDURES 

a. Rejection or Non-Acceptance of 

Bids: BOEM reserves the right and 

authority to reject all bids that do not 

satisfy the requirements and rules of the 

auction, the FSN, or applicable 

regulations and statutes. 

i. Anti-Competitive Review: Bidding 

behavior in this sale is subject to 

Federal antitrust laws. Accordingly, 

following the auction, but before the 

acceptance of bids and the issuance of 

leases, BOEM will ‘‘allow the Attorney 

General, in consultation with the 

Federal Trade Commission, 30 days to 

review the results of the lease sale.’’ 43 

U.S.C. 1337(c). If a provisionally 

winning bidder is found to have 

engaged in anti-competitive behavior in 

connection with its participation in the 

competitive bidding process, BOEM 

may reject its provisionally winning bid. 

Compliance with BOEM’s auction 

procedures and regulations is not an 

absolute defense to violations of 

antitrust laws. 

Anti-competitive behavior 

determinations are fact-specific. Such 

behavior may manifest itself in several 

different ways, including, but not 

limited to: 

1. An express or tacit agreement 

among bidders not to bid in an auction 

or to bid a particular price; 

2. An agreement among bidders not to 

bid or not to bid on one of the Lease 

Areas; 

3. An agreement among bidders not to 

bid against each other; or 

4. Other agreements among bidders 

that have the potential to affect the final 

auction price. 

Pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1337(c), BOEM 

will decline to award a lease if the 

Attorney General, in consultation with 

the Federal Trade Commission, 

determines that awarding the lease 

would be inconsistent with the antitrust 

laws. 

For more information on whether 

specific communications or agreements 

could constitute a violation of Federal 

antitrust law, please see https://

www.justice.gov/atr/business-resources 

or consult legal counsel. 

b. Process for Issuing the Lease: Once 

all post-auction reviews have been 

completed to BOEM’s satisfaction, 

BOEM will issue three unsigned copies 

of the lease to each provisionally 

winning bidder. Within 10-business 

days after receiving the lease copies, the 

provisionally winning bidders must: 

1. Sign and return the lease copies on 

the bidder’s behalf; 

2. File financial assurance, as required 

under 30 CFR 585.515–.537; and 

3. Pay by electronic funds transfer 

(EFT) the balance (if any) of the bonus 

bid (winning bid less the bid deposit). 

BOEM requires bidders to use EFT 

procedures (not pay.gov, the website 

bidders used to submit bid deposits) for 

payment of the balance of the bonus bid, 

following the detailed instructions 

contained in the ‘‘Instructions for 

Making Electronic Payments’’ available 

on BOEM’s website at: https://

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/carolina-long-bay. 

BOEM will not execute a lease until 

the three requirements above have been 

satisfied, BOEM has accepted the 

provisionally winning bidder’s financial 

assurance pursuant to 30 CFR 585.515, 

and BOEM has processed the 

provisionally winning bidder’s 

payment. 

BOEM may extend the 10-business 

day deadline for signing a lease, filing 

the required financial assurance, and 

paying the balance of the bonus bid if 

BOEM determines the delay was caused 

by events beyond the provisionally 

winning bidder’s control pursuant to 30 

CFR 585.224(e). 

If a provisionally winning bidder does 

not meet these requirements or 

otherwise fails to comply with 

applicable regulations or the terms of 

the FSN, BOEM reserves the right not to 

issue the lease to that bidder. In such a 

case, the provisionally winning bidder 

will forfeit its bid deposit. Also, in such 

a case, BOEM reserves the right to 

identify the next highest bid for that 

lease area submitted during the lease 

sale by a bidder who has not won one 

of the other Lease Areas and to offer the 

lease to that bidder pursuant to its bid. 

Within 45-calendar days of the date 

that a provisionally winning bidder 

receives copies of the lease, it must pay 

the first year’s rent using the pay.gov 

and Renewable Energy Initial Rental 

Payment form available at: https://

www.pay.gov/public/form/start//

27797604/. 

Subsequent annual rent payments 

must be made following the detailed 

instructions contained in the 

‘‘Instructions for Making Electronic 

Payments,’’ available on BOEM’s 

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

renewable-energy/state-activities/ 

carolina-long-bay. 

c. Non-Procurement Debarment and 

Suspension Regulations: Pursuant to 

regulations at 43 CFR part 42, subpart C, 

an OCS renewable energy lessee must 

comply with the Department of the 

Interior’s non-procurement debarment 

and suspension regulations at 2 CFR 

parts 180 and 1400. The lessee must 

also communicate this requirement to 

persons with whom the lessee does 

business relating to this lease by 

including this requirement as a 

condition in their contracts and other 

transactions. 

d. Force Majeure: The Program 

Manager of BOEM’s Office of Renewable 

Energy Programs has the discretion to 

change any auction details specified in 

the FSN, including the date and time, in 

case of a force majeure event that the 

Program Manager deems may interfere 

with a fair and proper lease sale process. 

Such events may include, but are not 

limited to: Natural disasters (e.g., 

earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, 

blizzards), wars, riots, acts of terrorism, 

fire, strikes, civil disorder, pandemics or 

other events of a similar nature. In case 

of such events, BOEM will notify all 

qualified bidders via email, phone, or 

through the BOEM website at: http://

www.boem.gov/Renewable-EnergyProgram/index.aspx. 

Bidders should call 703–787–1121 if 

they have concerns. 

e. Withdrawal of Blocks: BOEM 

reserves the right to withdraw all or 

portions of the Lease Areas prior to 

executing the leases with the winning 

bidders. 

f. Appeals: The appeals procedures 

are provided in BOEM’s regulations at 

30 CFR 585.225 and 585.118(c). 

Pursuant to 30 CFR 585.225: 

(a) If BOEM rejects your bid, BOEM 

will provide a written statement of the 

reasons and refund any money 

deposited with your bid, without 

interest. 

(b) You will then be able to ask the 

BOEM Director for reconsideration, in 

writing, within 15-business days of bid 

rejection, under 30 CFR 585.118(c)(1). 

We will send you a written response 

either affirming or reversing the 

rejection. 

The procedures for appealing final 

decisions with respect to lease sales are 

described in 30 CFR 585.118(c). 

XV. Protection of Privileged or 

Confidential Information: BOEM will 

protect privileged and confidential 

information that you submit, as required 

by the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA). Exemption 4 of FOIA applies to 

‘‘trade secrets and commercial or 

financial information that you submit 

that is privileged or confidential.’’ 5 

U.S.C. 552(b)(4). 

If you wish to protect the 

confidentiality of such information, 

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1A record of the Commissioners’ votes is 

available from the Office of the Secretary and at the 

Commission’s website. 

2The Commission has found the joint response to 

its Notice of Institution filed on behalf of Bristol 

Metals, LLC, Felker Brothers Corporation, and 

Primus Pipe & Tube, Inc., domestic producers of 

welded stainless steel pressure pipe, to be 

individually adequate. Comments from other 

interested parties will not be accepted (see 19 CFR 

207.62(d)(2)). 

Confidential Information’’ and consider 

submitting such information as a 

separate attachment. BOEM will not 

disclose such information, except as 

required by FOIA. Information that is 

not labeled as privileged or confidential 

may be regarded by BOEM as suitable 

for public release. Further, BOEM will 

not treat as confidential aggregate 

summaries of otherwise confidential 

information. 

Amanda Lefton, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06507 Filed 3–25–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 701–TA–548 and 731– 

TA–1298 (Review)] 

Welded Stainless Steel Pressure Pipe 

From India; Scheduling of Expedited 

Five-Year Reviews 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice of the scheduling of expedited 

reviews pursuant to the Tariff Act of 

1930 (‘‘the Act’’) to determine whether 

revocation of the antidumping and 

countervailing duty orders on welded 

stainless steel pressure pipe from India 

would be likely to lead to continuation 

or recurrence of material injury within 

a reasonably foreseeable time. 

DATES: January 4, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alejandro Orozco (202–205–3177), 

Office of Investigations, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. 

Hearing-impaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server (https://

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

these reviews may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at https://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background.—On January 4, 2022, the 

Commission determined that the 

domestic interested party group 

response to its notice of institution (86 

FR 54470, October 1, 2021) of the 

subject five-year reviews was adequate 

and that the respondent interested party 

group response was inadequate. The 

Commission did not find any other 

circumstances that would warrant 

conducting full reviews.1 Accordingly, 

the Commission determined that it 

would conduct expedited reviews 

pursuant to section 751(c)(3) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)(3)). 

For further information concerning 

the conduct of these reviews and rules 

of general application, consult the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A and B 

(19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subparts A, D, E, and F (19 CFR part 

207). 

Please note the Secretary’s Office will 

accept only electronic filings at this 

time. Filings must be made through the 

Commission’s Electronic Document 

Information System (EDIS, https://

edis.usitc.gov). No in-person paperbased filings or paper copies of any 

electronic filings will be accepted until 

further notice. 

Staff report.—A staff report 

containing information concerning the 

subject matter of the reviews has been 

placed in the nonpublic record, and will 

be made available to persons on the 

Administrative Protective Order service 

list for these reviews on March 24, 2022. 

A public version will be issued 

thereafter, pursuant to section 

207.62(d)(4) of the Commission’s rules. 

Written submissions.—As provided in 

section 207.62(d) of the Commission’s 

rules, interested parties that are parties 

to the reviews and that have provided 

individually adequate responses to the 

notice of institution,2 and any party 

other than an interested party to the 

reviews may file written comments with 

the Secretary on what determinations 

the Commission should reach in the 

reviews. Comments are due on or before 

March 31, 2022 and may not contain 

new factual information. Any person 

that is neither a party to the five-year 

reviews nor an interested party may 

submit a brief written statement (which 

shall not contain any new factual 

information) pertinent to the reviews by 

March 31, 2022. However, should the 

Department of Commerce (‘‘Commerce’’) 

extend the time limit for its completion 

of the final results of its reviews, the 

deadline for comments (which may not 

contain new factual information) on 

Commerce’s final results is three 

business days after the issuance of 

Commerce’s results. If comments 

contain business proprietary 

information (BPI), they must conform 

with the requirements of sections 201.6, 

207.3, and 207.7 of the Commission’s 

rules. The Commission’s Handbook on 

Filing Procedures, available on the 

Commission’s website at https://

www.usitc.gov/documents/handbook_

on_filing_procedures.pdf, elaborates 

upon the Commission’s procedures with 

respect to filings. 

In accordance with sections 201.16(c) 

and 207.3 of the rules, each document 

filed by a party to the reviews must be 

served on all other parties to the reviews 

(as identified by either the public or BPI 

service list), and a certificate of service 

must be timely filed. The Secretary will 

not accept a document for filing without 

a certificate of service. 

Determination.—The Commission has 

determined these reviews are 

extraordinarily complicated and 

therefore has determined to exercise its 

authority to extend the review period by 

up to 90 days pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 

1675(c)(5)(B). 

Authority: These reviews are being 

conducted under authority of title VII of 

the Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is 

published pursuant to section 207.62 of 

the Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: March 22, 2022. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06434 Filed 3–25–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Executive Office for Immigration 

Review 

Notice of Meeting—EOIR Case & 

Appeals System; Immigration Court 

Online Resource 

AGENCY: Executive Office for 

Immigration Review, Justice. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Executive Office for 

Immigration Review (‘‘EOIR’’) invites 

interested parties to attend the first of a 

series of public forums about its Access 

EOIR initiative. During the session, 

agency senior leadership will be 

available to listen to comments, 

compliments, and concerns from 

stakeholders regarding two of EOIR’s 

web-based initiatives: EOIR Courts & 


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