Commercial Wind Lease Issuance and Site Assessment Activities on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Maine

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has prepared this environmental assessment (EA) to determine whether the issuance of a lease within the Wind Energy Area (WEA) in the Gulf of Maine would lead to reasonably foreseeable significant impacts on the environment and, thus, whether an environmental impact statement should be prepared before any leases are issued.