Offshore New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia- Draft Environmental Assessment (EA)

The draft Environmental Assessment (EA) considers a number of reasonable geographic and non-geographic alternatives, and evaluates the environmental and socioeconomic consequences (including potential user conflicts) associated with issuing leases and approving site assessment plans under each alternative. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) intends to use this EA to inform decisions to issue leases in the refined wind energy areas (WEAs), and to subsequently approve site assessment plans on those leases.