TY - RPRT
TI - Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project Construction and Operations Plan
AU - Tetra Tech Inc.
AB - The Virginia Electric and Power Company, doing business as Dominion Energy Virginia (hereafter referred to as Dominion Energy), is proposing to construct, own, and operate the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) Commercial Project (hereinafter referred to as the Project). The Project will be located in the Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Offshore Virginia (Lease No. OCS-A-0483) (Lease Area), which was awarded to Dominion Energy (Lessee) through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) competitive renewable energy lease auction of the Wind Energy Area (WEA) offshore of Virginia in 2013. The Lease Area covers approximately 112,799 acres (ac; 45,658 hectares [ha]) and is approximately 27 statute miles (mi; 23.75 nautical miles [nm], 43.99 kilometers [km]) off the Virginia Beach coastline.The purpose of this Project is to provide between 2,500 and 3,000 megawatts (MW) of clean, reliable offshore wind energy; to increase the amount and availability of renewable energy to Virginia and North Carolina consumers; to create the opportunity to displace electricity generated by fossil fuel-powered plants, and to offer substantial economic and environmental benefits to the Commonwealth of Virginia. This Project represents a viable and needed opportunity for Virginia to obtain clean renewable energy and realize its economic and environmental goals.Dominion Energy has adopted a Project Design Envelope (PDE) approach to describe Project facilities and activities. A PDE is defined as “a reasonable range of project designs” associated with various components of the project (e.g., foundation and wind turbine generator (WTG) [or wind turbine] options) (BOEM 2018). The PDE is then used to assess the potential impacts on key environmental and human use resources (e.g., marine mammals, fish, benthic habitats, commercial fisheries, navigation, etc.) focusing on the design parameter (within the defined range) that represents the greatest potential impact (i.e., the “maximum design scenario”) for each unique resource (Rowe et al. 2017). The primary goal of applying a design envelope is to allow for meaningful assessments by the jurisdictional agencies of the proposed project elements and activities while concurrently providing the Lessee reasonable flexibility to make prudent development and design decisions prior to construction. This conservative approach likely overstates the actual impact to environmental and human use resources from the ultimate Project following alternatives refinement and implementation of any selected avoidance, minimization, and mitigation measures.This Construction and Operations Plan (COP) covers the entire Lease Area, Offshore Export Cable Route Corridor, and associated Onshore Project Components and therefore addresses the proposed Project elements and the means and methods used for constructing, installing and operating the facilities as well as the potential positive and adverse effects of the Project.CVOW Commercial COP SectionsExecutive Summary and Table of ContentsSections 1-3; Introduction, project Siting and Design Development, Description of Proposed ActivitySection 4.1 Physical ResourcesSection 4.2 Biological ResourcesSection 4.3 Cultural ResourcesSection 4.4. Socioeconomic ResourcesSection 5 ReferencesAppendicesAppendix A: Safety Management SystemAppendix B: Preliminary Hierarchy of StandardsAppendix C: Marine Site Investigation ReportAppendix D: Benthic Resource Characterization ReportAppendix E: Essential Fish Habitat AssessmentAppendix F: Marine Archeological Resource AssessmentAppendix G: Terrestrial Archaeological Resource AssessmentAppendix H1: Historic Properties AssessmentAppendix H2: Onshore Historical Resources Visual Effects Analysis (HRVEA) (Confidential)Appendix H3: Offshore HRVEA (Confidential)Appendix H4: CorrespondenceAppendix I: Visual Impact Assessment, OffshoreAppendix I2: Visual Impact Assessment, OnshoreAppendix J: Sediment Transport AnalysisAppendix K: Conceptual Project Design DrawingsAppendix L: Summary of Agency and Stakeholder Engagement Part 1Appendix L: Summary of Agency and Stakeholder Engagement Part 2Appendix L: Summary of Agency and Stakeholder Engagement Part 3Appendix L: Summary of Agency and Stakeholder Engagement Part 4Appendix L: Summary of Agency and Stakeholder Engagement Part 5Appendix M: Certified Verification Agency NominationAppendix N: Air Emissions Calculations and MethodologyAppendix O1: Avian and Bat Impact AssessmentAppendix O2: Offshore BatAppendix O3: Northern Longeared Bat Presence/Absence Mist-Netting Survey ReportAppendix P: Coastal Zone Management Act Consistency CertificationsAppendix Q: Oil Spill Response PlanAppendix R: Threatened and Endangered Species ReviewAppendix S: Navigation Safety Risk AssessmentAppendix T: Obstruction Evaluation and Additional AnalysisAppendix U: Wetland Delineation ReportAppendix V: Fisheries Communications PlanAppendix W: Preliminary Cable Burial Risk AssessmentAppendix X: Metocean Assessment (Confidential and Proprietary)Appendix Y: In-Air Acoustic AssessmentAppendix Z: Underwater Acoustic AssessmentAppendix AA: Offshore Electric and Magnetic Field AssessmentAppendix BB: Onshore Electric and Magnetic Field AssessmentAppendix CC: Seabed Morphology StudyAppendix DD: Section-106 Phased ID PlanAppendix EE-1: Socioeconomic EJ Studies  Appendix EE-2: Environmental Justice Screening ReportAppendix FF: Protected Species Mitigation and Monitoring Plan 
CY - USA
DA - 2022/05//
PY - 2022
SP - 134
PB - Tetra Tech Inc.
UR - https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/coastal-virginia-offshore-wind-project-construction-and
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
ER -