TY - RPRT
TI - Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
AU - Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
AB - This Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) assesses the reasonably foreseeable impacts on physical, biological, socioeconomic, and cultural resources that could result from the construction and installation, operations and maintenance (O&M), and conceptual decommissioning of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project (Project) proposed by Dominion Energy, in its Construction and Operations Plan (COP). The proposed Project described in the COP and this Draft EIS would construct, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission an up-to 3,000-megawatt (MW) wind energy facility on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Virginia and associated onshore power distribution facilities. This Draft EIS was prepared in accordance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (42 United States Code 4321–4370f) and implementing regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Department of the Interior. This Draft EIS will inform the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s decision on whether to approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove the Project’s COP. Publication of the Draft EIS initiates a 60-day public comment period, after which all comments received will be assessed and considered by BOEM in preparation of a Final EIS.Executive SummaryVolume I: Chapters 1-3Volume II: Appendices A-LVolume III: Appendices M-OIndividual Appendices:Appendix A:  Required Environmental Permits and ConsultationsAppendix B:  List of Preparers and ReviewersAppendix C:  References Cited and GlossaryAppendix D:  Analysis of Incomplete or Unavailable InformationAppendix E:  Project Design Envelope and Maximum-Case ScenarioAppendix F:  Planned Activities ScenarioAppendix G:  Assessment of Resources with Minor (or Lower) ImpactsAppendix H:  Mitigation and MonitoringAppendix I:  Environmental and Physical SettingsAppendix J:  Overview of Acoustic Modeling ReportAppendix K:  List of Agencies, Organizations, and Persons to Whom Copies of the Statement Are SentAppendix L:  Other ImpactsAppendix M: Seascape, Landscape, and Visual Impact AssessmentAppendix N:  BOEM’s Responses to Public Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact StatementAppendix O: Finding of Adverse Effect for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Construction and Operations Plan
DA - 2022/12//
PY - 2022
SP - 572
PB - Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
SN - 1
UR - https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/coastal-virginia-offshore-wind-commercial-cvow-c-draft
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Environmental Impact Assessment
ER -