** VIRTUAL MEETINGS POSTPONED **
Virtual public meetings on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Potential Mitigation of Future Development of Wind Lease Areas Offshore California have been postponed. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.
For those who intended to provide public comment today, please submit those comments in writing to regulations.gov, docket No. BOEM-2023-0061.
The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are implementing the Administration’s Executive Order temporarily halting offshore wind leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf. The EO also pauses new or renewed approvals, rights-of-way, permits, leases, or loans for offshore wind projects pending a review of federal wind leasing and permitting practices.
For information on BOEM’s current offshore wind activities in California, please go to www.boem.gov/California.
Reminder: Public Meetings on Draft Environmental Review of Potential Mitigation of Future Development of Wind Lease Areas Offshore California
On Nov. 13, 2024, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the notice of availability (NOA) of a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that assesses the potential mitigation of future development associated with the five offshore wind lease areas off California’s central and north coasts.
The NOA initiated a 90-day public comment period that ends at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on February 12, 2025. During the public comment period, BOEM is hosting two virtual public meetings to allow the public to learn more about the draft Programmatic EIS, ask questions, and provide oral testimony.
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The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy, mineral, and geological resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.