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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 143 / Thursday, July 29, 2021 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Docket No. BOEM20210044

Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Outer Continental Shelf OCS Offshore Morro Bay, California, East and West Extensions Call for Information and Nominations Call or Notice Bureau of Ocean Energy Management BOEM, Interior.
ACTION: Call for information and nominations; request for comments.
AGENCY:

This Call is published to solicit public input and industry interest on potential offshore wind energy development on areas adjacent to the Morro Bay Call Area previously identified in 2018. These new areas are within a 399-square-mile area located off central California, identified as the Morro Bay 399 Area.
DATES: BOEM must receive nominations and public comments by September 13, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit nominations for a lease area following the instructions in section 7, Required Nomination Information, under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION to: BOEM, Office of Strategic Resources, 760 Paseo Camarillo Suite 102, Camarillo, California 93010.
Comments and other information may be submitted by either of the following two methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http
www.regulations.gov. In the search box, enter BOEM20210044 and then click search. Follow the instructions to submit public comments and view supporting and related materials available for this notice.
2. U.S. Postal Service or other delivery service. Send your comments and information to the following address: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office of Strategic Resources, 760 Paseo Camarillo Suite 102, Camarillo, California 93010.
All submissions, including any personally identifiable information included in your comment, will be reported on http www.regulations.gov.
For additional information on sending comments and protecting your confidentiality, see section 8, Protection of Privileged or Confidential Information, under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.

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SUMMARY:

Jean Thurston-Keller, BOEM California Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force Coordinator, BOEM, Office
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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of Strategic Resources, 760 Paseo Camarillo Suite 102, Camarillo, California 93010, 805 3846303, or jean.thurston-keller@boem.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority This Call is published pursuant to 43
U.S.C. 1337p3 and the implementing regulations at 30 CFR part 585.
Call Area The call areas described in this notice are located on the OCS offshore central California and are delineated as the Morro Bay Call Area East Extension and the Morro Bay Call Area West Extension together, the Call Area Extensions.
These areas include 2 whole OCS blocks and 221 partial blocks and comprise approximately 141 square statute miles mi 90,025 acres. BOEM will identify which, if any, portions of the Call Area Extensions and the Morro Bay Call Area will undergo environmental analysis and consideration for leasing as part of area identification Area ID during the competitive leasing process. Section 5, Description of the Area, provides a detailed description and developmental history of the Call Area Extensions.
Purpose of the Call for Information and Nominations The OCS Lands Act requires BOEM to award leases competitively unless BOEM determines that there is no competitive interest 43 U.S.C.
1337p3. On October 19, 2018, BOEM
published a call for information and nominations to solicit commercial interest in wind energy leases within three areas identified offshore California 83 FR 53096.
In this current notice, BOEM solicits information on the Call Area Extensions, as well as new nominations of commercial interest from entities that were not previously qualified by BOEM
and did not submit a nomination for the Morro Bay Call Area in 2018. Entities who submitted nominations of commercial interest for the Morro Bay Call Area in 2018 do not need to respond to this Call unless they want to nominate portions of the Call Area Extensions.
BOEM determined that competitive interest existed in the Morro Bay Call Area after reviewing the nominations submitted in 2018. BOEM assumes that competitive interest will be expressed in the Call Area Extensions described in this notice given their geographical proximity to the Morro Bay Call Area.
Depending on the comments received in response to this Call, BOEM may or may not proceed with the competitive leasing process set forth in 30 CFR

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585.211 through 585.225. This process is explained in detail in section 3, BOEMs Planning and Leasing Process.
A lease does not grant the lessee the right to construct any facilities on the leasehold. Rather, the lease grants the lessee the exclusive right to submit site assessment and construction and operations plans to BOEM, which BOEM may approve, modify, or disapprove. The lessee must obtain BOEMs approval of its plans before it may proceed to the next stage of the process 30 CFR 585.600 and 585.601.
BOEMs leasing process includes opportunities for the public to provide input, and any proposed leasing actions will be reviewed thoroughly for potential environmental impacts and multiple use conflicts. The areas that may be offered for lease, if any, have not yet been determined and may include less than the total footprint of the Call Area Extensions.
Although this notice is not itself a leasing announcement, the area described herein, or portions thereof, may be available for future leasing.
Parties wishing to submit a nomination of commercial interest in response to this Call should submit detailed and specific information in response to the requirements described in section 7, Required Nomination Information.
This notice also requests comments and information regarding site conditions, resources, and multiple uses in close proximity to, or within, the Call Area Extensions that would be relevant to BOEMs review of the nominations and to any subsequent decision whether to offer all or part of the Call Area Extensions for commercial wind energy leasing. Information that BOEM is requesting is described in section 6, Requested Information from Interested or Affected Parties.
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Background On October 19, 2018, BOEM
published a call for information and nominations in the Federal Register 2018 Call that identified three 3
geographically distinct call areas on the OCS offshore California, delineated as the Humboldt Call Area offshore the north coast and the Morro Bay Call Area and the Diablo Canyon Call Area offshore the central coast.
Based on the 2018 Call, BOEM
previously decided to move forward with the leasing process for the Humboldt Call Area. That area is not addressed in this notice.
Following the 2018 Call, the Morro Bay and Diablo Canyon Call Areas were initially assessed as incompatible for wind energy development by the U.S.

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