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Regulatory Development, Policy and Guidelines
Federal Register Notices and other
relevant regulatory documents related to the national OCS
Renewable Energy Program, including the Cape Wind Project, are provided at
the links below.
Additional Federal Register Notices related to BOEMRE Offshore initiatives are available on the
BOEMRE Offshore Federal Register Notice web site.
Guidelines to Lessees, Operators and Applicants
BOEMRE has developed the following guidelines for renewable energy activities on the OCS. These informal documents are intended to provide lessees, operators and developers with the following:
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additional information, clarification, description, or interpretation of a regulation, OCS standard or regional requirement;
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a better understanding of the scope and meaning of a regulation by explaining BOEMRE interpretation of a requirement;
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guidelines on the implementation of a special lease stipulation or regional requirement; or
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updated administrative information such as current telephone listings and a change in BOEMRE personnel or office address.
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What renewable energy activities on the OCS require
authorization? (11-27-2009, 15.7 KB PDF)
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Guidelines for the Minerals Management
Service Renewable Energy Framework
(07-2009, 1.38 KB PDF)
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Filing Addresses for Renewable
Energy Lease and Grant
Requests (11-01-2010, 8.07 KB PDF)
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Guidelines for
Information Requirements for a Renewable Energy
Construction and Operations Plan (COP)
(12-17-2010, 205 KB PDF)
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Guidelines for Providing
Geological and Geophysical, Hazards, and Archaeological
Information Pursuant to 30 CFR Part 285
(04-21-2011; 84.09 KB PDF)
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Qualification
Guidelines to Acquire and Hold Renewable Energy Leases and
Grants and Alternate Use Grants on the U.S. Outer
Continental Shelf (03-01-2011,
38.44 KB PDF)
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Notices to Lessees clarify, describe, or interpret OCS regulations or standards. |
Interim Policy
Lease Forms
Administrative Forms
Programmatic EIS
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Rules Development
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