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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 208 / Monday, November 1, 2021 / Notices
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Once BOEM has processed a bidders BFF, the bidder may log into pay.gov and submit a bid deposit. For purposes of this auction, BOEM will not consider BFFs submitted by bidders for previous lease sales. You may submit your BFF
electronically in PDF format to the mailbox at renewableenergy@boem.gov.
Digital signatures, affixed to paper and digital copies, are acceptable until further notice.
a. Please accompany your submission with a transmittal letter on company letterhead.
b. BOEM prefers that your BFF be submitted using a company email address.
c. The BFF must be executed by an authorized representative listed in the bidders legal qualifications. Each bidder is required to sign the selfcertification in the BFF truthfully, under threat of criminal penalty for false statements in accordance with 18 U.S.C.
1001 fraud and false statements.
d. BOEM will consider the date an emailed submission was received in the mailbox renewableenergy@boem.gov as the official receipt filed date.
e. Additional information regarding BFF may be found below in section IX
Bidders Financial Form.
ii. Bid Deposit: Each qualified bidder must submit a bid deposit of $2,000,000
no later than the date specified in the FSN. Further information about bid deposits can be found below in section X Bid Deposit.
d. Mock Auction: BOEM will hold a mock auction that is open only to qualified bidders who have met the requirements and deadlines for auction participation, including submission of the bid deposit. Final details of the mock auction will be provided in the FSN.
e. The Auction: BOEM, through its contractor, will conduct the auction as described in the FSN. The auction will occur no sooner than 30 days following publication of the FSN in the Federal Register. The estimated timeframes described in this PSN assume the auction will occur approximately 45
days after FSN publication. Final dates will be included in the FSN. BOEM will announce the provisional winner of the lease sale after the auction ends.
f. From the Auction to Lease Execution:
i. Notice and Refunds to NonWinners: Once the provisional winner has been announced, BOEM will notify the other bidders, include a written explanation of why they did not win, and return their bid deposits.

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ii. Department of Justice DOJ
Review: DOJ will have 30 days in which to conduct an antitrust review of the auction, pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1337c.
iii. Delivery of the Lease: BOEM will send three copies of the lease to the winning bidder, with instructions on how to sign the lease. The winning bidder must pay the first years rent within 45-calendar days after receiving the lease copies.
iv. Return the Lease: Within 10business days of receiving the lease copies, the winning bidder must file financial assurance, pay any outstanding balance of its bonus bids i.e., winning monetary bid less the applicable non-monetary bidding credit and bid deposit, and sign and return the three lease copies. A winning bidder may request a deadline extension.
BOEM may grant the request if BOEM
determines the cause of the delay was beyond the winning bidders control pursuant to 30 CFR 585.224e.
v. Execution of Lease: Once BOEM
has received the signed lease copies and verified that all other required obligations have been met, BOEM will determine, in its discretion, whether to sign and execute the lease.
VI. Withdrawal of Blocks BOEM reserves the right to withdraw all or portions of the Lease Area prior to executing the lease with the winning bidder.
VII. Lease Terms and Conditions BOEM has made available proposed terms, conditions, and stipulations for the commercial lease that will be offered through this proposed sale. BOEM
reserves the right to require compliance with additional terms and conditions associated with approval of a site assessment plan SAP and COP. The proposed lease is on BOEMs website at:
The lease includes the following attachments:
1. Addendum A Description of Leased Area and Lease Activities;
2. Addendum B Lease Term and Financial Schedule;
3. Addendum C Lease-Specific Terms, Conditions, and Stipulations;
4. Addendum D Project Easement;
and 5. Addendum E Rent Schedule.
Addenda A, B, and C provide detailed descriptions of lease terms and conditions. Addendum D will be completed at the time of COP approval or approval with modifications.
Addendum E will be completed after COP approval or approval with modifications. After considering comments on the PSN and proposed
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lease, BOEM will publish final lease terms and conditions in the FSN.
a. Required Plans for Potential Development of Executed Lease: Under 30 CFR 585.601, if site assessment activities will be conducted, the leaseholder must submit a SAP within 12 months of lease issuance. If the leaseholder intends to continue its commercial lease with an operations term, the leaseholder must submit a COP at least 6 months before the end of the site assessment term.
b. Proposed New or Revised Lease Stipulations: BOEM proposes to add or revise the following lease stipulations or provisions from previous commercial leases:
i. Fisheries Communication Plan: The requirement for the fisheries communication plan FCP has been amended to specify that the FCP must include discussions with fisheries stakeholders regarding any planned facilities within 120 days of lease execution.
ii. Native American Tribes Communication Plan: BOEM has added a lease stipulation requiring the lessee to develop a Native American Tribes Communication Plan NATCP. The NATCP would require the lessee to designate a Tribal liaison responsible for communicating with federally recognized Tribes, to provide BOEM
and federally recognized Tribes with a draft NATCP, and to hold a meeting with federally recognized Tribes to discuss the NATCP within 120 days of lease execution.
iii. Protected Species: In October 2018, BOEM initiated ESA section 7
formal consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS to update the project design criteria and best management practices to be more consistent with recent incidental harassment authorizations IHAs issued by NMFS under the Marine Mammal Protection Act for site survey and data collection activities. In January 2020, BOEM and NMFS agreed to convert the formal consultation to a programmatic informal consultation limited to surveys and installation of met buoys associated with a lease. Activities include geophysical and geotechnical surveys and the installation and decommissioning of met buoys in support of offshore wind energy projects.
Mitigation measures adopted during the consultation rely upon the most upto-date science and mirror those included in recent IHAs. Adopting these measures would reduce the number of requests by the lessee to modify its lease stipulations consistent with its respective NMFS-issued IHAs, which in
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