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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 208 / Monday, November 1, 2021 / Notices included in a lease addendum and would bind the lessee and all future assignees of the lease. If a lessee or assignee fails to satisfy its commitment obligations before submission of the FDR or relinquishes or otherwise fails to develop the lease for any reason by the 10th anniversary date of lease execution or another date agreed to by BOEM, the original lessee and all assignees will owe an amount corresponding to the awarded bidding credit, immediately due and payable to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue with interest from the date of lease execution. In that circumstance, the bidding credit has been forfeited, and the lessee would be obligated to pay the amount of the credit not earned, resulting in payment of the full amount of the accepted bid.
f. BOEM invites comment on the appropriate mechanisms, evaluation metrics, recipient program examples, and relative value of bidding credits for workforce training and supply chain development.
g. Native American Tribes, ocean users, and stakeholder engagement: In an effort to require early and regular lessee engagement with affected stakeholders, BOEM is proposing a lease stipulation that would require lessees to provide a semi-annual i.e., every 6
months progress report that summarizes engagement with Native American Tribes and ocean users potentially affected by proposed activities on the lease or proposed project easement. The progress report would identify and describe: All existing users; the lessees engagement with those users; efforts to avoid, minimize, or mitigate any conflict between the existing users and the lessee; disproportionate impacts to environmental justice communities; and planned next steps to engage those users and address identified conflicts. The lease stipulation specifically would require coordination with the commercial fishing industry and consideration of potential conflicts prior to proposing a wind turbine layout in the COP. BOEM seeks comment on this concept generally, as well as comment on the contents and timing of such reports.
h. Coordinated engagement: BOEM
seeks comments on methods to improve coordination and engagement among lessees, federally recognized Tribes, and other stakeholders. Specifically, BOEM
is soliciting input on how to improve the frequency, duration, and sustainability of collaborative engagement among these parties, as well as the preferred form it should take inperson, webinar, facilitated meeting, etc.. BOEM recognizes its responsibility
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under Executive Order 13175 to conduct government-to-government consultations with Tribal governments.
Coordinated engagement between federally recognized Tribes and lessees that may be required in a future lease would be in addition to BOEMs responsibilities. To illustrate the intent of this question, one possible lease term to facilitate coordinated engagement could be to require lessees to hold coordination meetings at regular intervals throughout the year i.e., quarterly, biannually, annually, etc..
During these meetings, lessees would share information and updates about their activities with federally recognized Tribes and other stakeholders and solicit feedback and input about lessee activities. These meetings would not substitute for government-togovernment meetings between Tribes and Federal agencies, including BOEM.
i. Prescribed layouts: BOEM seeks comment about whether BOEM should consider prescribing uniform and aligned turbine layouts in the Lease Area. Would the establishment of uniform turbine layouts negate the need for established transit corridors?
j. Rent: BOEM is proposing to simplify the calculation for rental fees once commercial operations have begun. The simplification would divide the leased area into generating and non-generating acreages and would use the non-generating acreage as the basis for the rental calculation. BOEM
welcomes comments on the proposed rental calculation changes.
k. Industry standards for environmental protection: Are there new industry standards e.g., technology standards, vessel standards, etc. for environmental protection for any phase of development that BOEM should consider?
V. Deadlines and Milestones This section describes the major deadlines and milestones in the auction process from publication of this PSN to potential execution of the lease pursuant to this sale.
a. The PSN Comment Period:
i. Submit Comments: The public is invited to submit comments during this 60-day period, which expires on January 3, 2022. All comments received or postmarked during the comment period will be made available to the public and considered by BOEM prior to publication of the FSN.
ii. Public Auction Seminar: BOEM
will host a public seminar to discuss the lease sale process and the auction format. The time and place of the seminar will be announced by BOEM
and published on the BOEM website at
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Neither registration nor RSVP is required to attend.
iii. Submit Qualifications Materials:
All qualification materials must be received by BOEM by January 3, 2022.
This includes materials sufficient to establish a companys legal, technical, and financial qualifications pursuant to 30 CFR 585.106.107. To qualify to participate in this lease sale, qualification materials should be developed in accordance with the guidelines available at https
www.boem.gov/Renewable-EnergyQualification-Guidelines/. If you wish to protect the confidentiality of your comments or qualification materials, clearly mark the relevant sections and request that BOEM treat them as confidential. Please label privileged or confidential information with the caption Contains Confidential Information and consider submitting such information as a separate attachment. Treatment of confidential information is addressed in section XXI
entitled Protection of Privileged or Confidential Information. Information that is not labeled as privileged or confidential would be regarded by BOEM as suitable for public release.
b. End of PSN Comment Period to FSN Publication:
i. Review Comments: BOEM will review all comments submitted in response to the PSN during the comment period.
ii. Finalize Qualifications Reviews:
Prior to the publication of the FSN, BOEM will complete its review of bidder qualification materials submitted during the PSN comment period. The final list of eligible bidders will be published in the FSN.
iii. Prepare the FSN: BOEM will prepare the FSN by updating information contained in the PSN where appropriate.
iv. Publish FSN: BOEM will publish the FSN in the Federal Register.
c. FSN Waiting Period: During this period, qualified bidders must take several steps to remain eligible to participate in the auction.
i. Bidders Financial Form BFF: Each bidder must submit a BFF to BOEM to participate in the auction. BOEM must receive each bidders BFF no later than the date listed in the FSN. BOEM may consider extensions to this deadline only if BOEM determines that the failure to timely submit a BFF was caused by events beyond the bidders control. The BFF can be downloaded at:
https www.boem.gov/regional-

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