Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)

Abstract

This Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) assesses the reasonably foreseeable impacts on physical, biological, socioeconomic, and cultural resources that could result from the construction and installation, operations and maintenance (O&M), and conceptual decommissioning of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project (Project) proposed by Dominion Energy, in its Construction and Operations Plan (COP). The proposed Project described in the COP and this Draft EIS would construct, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission an up-to 3,000-megawatt (MW) wind energy facility on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Virginia and associated onshore power distribution facilities. This Draft EIS was prepared in accordance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (42 United States Code 4321–4370f) and implementing regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Department of the Interior. This Draft EIS will inform the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s decision on whether to approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove the Project’s COP. Publication of the Draft EIS initiates a 60-day public comment period, after which all comments received will be assessed and considered by BOEM in preparation of a Final EIS.

  • Executive Summary
  • Volume I: Chapters 1-3
  • Volume II: Appendices A-L
  • Volume III: Appendices M-O
  • Individual Appendices:
    • Appendix A:  Required Environmental Permits and Consultations
    • Appendix B:  List of Preparers and Reviewers
    • Appendix C:  References Cited and Glossary
    • Appendix D:  Analysis of Incomplete or Unavailable Information
    • Appendix E:  Project Design Envelope and Maximum-Case Scenario
    • Appendix F:  Planned Activities Scenario
    • Appendix G:  Assessment of Resources with Minor (or Lower) Impacts
    • Appendix H:  Mitigation and Monitoring
    • Appendix I:  Environmental and Physical Settings
    • Appendix J:  Overview of Acoustic Modeling Report
    • Appendix K:  List of Agencies, Organizations, and Persons to Whom Copies of the Statement Are Sent
    • Appendix L:  Other Impacts
    • Appendix M: Seascape, Landscape, and Visual Impact Assessment
    • Appendix N:  BOEM’s Responses to Public Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement
    • Appendix O: Finding of Adverse Effect for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Construction and Operations Plan
This document is related to the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) Project Site.