§ 217.310 - Specified activity and specified geographical region.

§ 217.310 Specified activity and specified geographical region.

(a) Regulations in this subpart apply only to activities associated with the Sunrise Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project by Sunrise Wind, LLC (Sunrise Wind) and those persons Sunrise Wind authorizes or funds to conduct activities on its behalf in the area outlined in paragraph (b) of this section. Requirements imposed on Sunrise Wind must be implemented by those persons it authorizes or funds to conduct activities on its behalf.

(b) The specified geographical region is the Mid-Atlantic Bight, which extends between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, extending westward into the Atlantic to the 100-m isobath, and includes, but is not limited to, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Lease Area Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)-A-0487 Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development, one export cable route, and one sea-to-shore transition point at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, New York.

(c) The specified activities are impact pile driving wind turbine generator (WTG) and offshore converter substation (OCS-DC) foundations; pneumatic hammering for installation and removal of temporary casing pipes; vibratory pile driving for installation and removal of temporary goal post and sheet piles; impact and vibratory pile driving associated with the Smith Point County Park temporary pier, high-resolution geophysical (HRG) site characterization surveys; detonation of unexploded ordnances (UXOs) or munitions and explosives of concern (MECs); fisheries and benthic monitoring surveys; placement of scour protection; trenching, laying, and burial activities associated with the installation of the export cable from the OCS-DC to shore based converter stations and inter-array cables between WTG foundations; vessel transit within the specified geographical region to transport crew, supplies, and materials; and WTG operations.