[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24810-24811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07467]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers

[Permit No. NAN-2020-01079]


Notice of Final Federal Agency Action on the Authorization for 
the South Fork Wind Energy Project Offshore New York and Rhode Island

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of limitation on claims for judicial review of actions 
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

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SUMMARY: USACE announces final agency action on the USACE authorization 
for the proposed

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construction and maintenance of the South Fork Wind project offshore 
New York and Rhode Island. USACE has issued a permit authorizing the 
construction and maintenance of the South Fork Wind project under 
section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (RHA), section 404 of 
the Clean Water Act (CWA). The South Fork Wind project is a ``covered 
project'' under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation 
Act.

DATES: A claim seeking judicial review of the USACE authorization of 
construction and maintenance of the South Fork Wind project will be 
barred unless the claim is filed not later than two years after this 
notice's publication date. If the Federal law that allows for judicial 
review of the USACE authorization specifies a shorter time period for 
filing such a claim, then that shorter time period will apply.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Christopher Minck, Regulatory 
Project Manager, Regulatory Branch, USACE, New York District, 26 
Federal Plaza, New York, New York 10278, (917) 790-8511 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that USACE has taken 
final agency action on its authorization for the proposed South Fork 
Wind project by issuing a permit authorizing construction and 
maintenance of the project under section 10 of the RHA and section 404 
of the CWA. The majority of the authorized work will occur in the 
Atlantic Ocean within Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) 
Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-0517, which is approximately 19 miles 
southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island, and 35 miles east of Montauk 
Point, New York.
    The work authorized under the USACE permit includes the following: 
(1) installation of up to twelve (12) wind turbine generators (WTGs) 
and one (1) offshore substation (OSS) with associated scour protection, 
(2) installation of approximately 21.4 miles of inter-array cables 
connecting the WTGs and the OSS with associated secondary cable 
protection, (3) installation of an export transmission cable with 
associated secondary cable protection within an approximately 61.66 
mile long offshore export cable corridor extending from the lease area 
to the cable landfall location in Wainscott, New York, and (4) 
construction of an Operations and Maintenance Facility in Lake Montauk 
in Montauk, New York.
    The USACE's decision to issue a permit for the South Fork Wind 
project, and the laws under which the action was taken, are described 
in the South Fork Wind Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 
published by BOEM on August 16, 2021, in the BOEM Record of Decision 
(ROD) issued on November 24, 2021, and in other project records. The 
FEIS, ROD, and other documents can be viewed and downloaded from the 
BOEM project website at https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/south-fork. The USACE permit can be viewed and downloaded 
from the USACE website at https://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Commonly-Requested-Issued-Permits-and-Nationwide-Permit-Verifications/. By this notice, USACE is advising the public of final 
agency action subject to 42 U.S.C. 4370m-6(a)(1)(A).
    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4370m-6(a)(1)(A).

John P. Lloyd,
Brigadier General, USA, Commanding.
[FR Doc. 2024-07467 Filed 4-8-24; 8:45 am]
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