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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 208 / Monday, November 1, 2021 / Notices
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Is development and production of offshore wind energy feasible when compared to the cost of electricity in GOM coastal States?
What impetus is necessary for utility companies located along the GOM to purchase offshore wind energy?
What could make offshore wind energy development in the GOM more attractive to investors?
What could make offshore wind energy development in the GOM more attractive to consumers?
What is the viability, economic or otherwise, of using offshore wind to power green hydrogen production in the GOM?
What is the economic viability of offshore wind energy in the GOM
considering turbine size, hurricane class turbines, fixed charge rates, and insurance costs?
What are the most viable locations for offshore wind energy projects in the GOM based on water depth, wind resources, turbine size, distance to port, and interconnection?
What are the transmission constraints, known or anticipated, and advantages, including but not limited to points of interconnection, load, etc., in the GOM?
5. Required Nomination Information If you wish to nominate one or more areas for a commercial wind energy lease within the Call Area, you must provide the following information for each nomination. Any nominations or information submitted in response to the RFI section entitled Required Indication of Interest Information, does not need to be resubmitted; BOEM will consider it along with any information received in response to this notice.
a. The BOEM leasing map name and number, or official protraction diagram number, and the specific whole or partial OCS blocks within the Call Area that you are interested in leasing. This information should be submitted as a spatial file compatible with ArcGIS
10.8.1 in a geographic coordinate system NAD 27 in addition to your hard copy submittal. If your nomination includes one or more partial blocks, please describe those partial blocks in terms of a sixteenth i.e., sub-block of an OCS
block.
b. A description of your objectives and the facilities that you would use to achieve those objectives.
c. A preliminary schedule of proposed activities, including those leading to commercial operations.
d. Available and pertinent data and information concerning renewable energy resources and environmental conditions in each area that you wish to
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lease, including energy and resource data and information used to evaluate the area. Where applicable, spatial information should be submitted in a format compatible with ArcGIS 10.8.1 in a geographic coordinate system NAD
27.
e. Documentation demonstrating that you are legally qualified to hold a lease in accordance with the requirements in 30 CFR 585.106 and 585.107c.
Examples of the documentation appropriate for demonstrating your legal qualifications and related guidance can be found in BOEMs Qualification Guidelines to Acquire and Hold Renewable Energy Leases and Grants and Alternate Use Grants on the U.S.
Outer Continental Shelf, available at http www.boem.gov/RenewableEnergy-Program/RegulatoryInformation/QualificationGuidelinespdf.aspx. Legal qualification documents that you provide to BOEM may be made available for public review. If you wish that any part of your legal qualification documentation be kept confidential, clearly identify what should be kept confidential and submit it under separate cover see section 6 of this Call entitled Protection of Privileged, Personal, or Confidential Information Section, below.
f. Documentation demonstrating that you are technically and financially capable of constructing, operating, maintaining, and decommissioning the commercial wind energy facility described in your submission in accordance with 30 CFR 585.107a.
Guidance regarding the documentation to demonstrate your technical and financial qualifications can be found in Qualification Guidelines to Acquire and Hold Renewable Energy Leases and Grants and Alternate Use Grants on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, available at: http www.boem.gov/RenewableEnergy-Program/RegulatoryInformation/QualificationGuidelinespdf.aspx. Any documentation you submit to demonstrate your legal, technical, and financial qualifications must be provided to BOEM in both paper and electronic formats. BOEM
considers an Adobe PDF file on a media storage device to be an acceptable format for an electronic copy.
6. Protection of Privileged, Personal, or Confidential Information a. Freedom of Information Act BOEM will protect your privileged or confidential information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act FOIA. Exemption 4 of FOIA applies to trade secrets and commercial or financial information that is privileged
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or confidential. If you wish to protect the confidentiality of such information, clearly label it and request that BOEM
treat it as confidential. BOEM will not disclose such information if BOEM
determines under 30 CFR 585.113b that it qualifies for exemption from disclosure under FOIA. Please label privileged or confidential information with the words Contains Confidential Information and consider submitting such information as a separate attachment.
BOEM will not treat as confidential any aggregate summaries of such information or comments not containing such privileged or confidential information. Additionally, BOEM will not treat as confidential 1 the legal title of the nominating entity for example, the name of your company, or 2 the list of whole or partial blocks that you are nominating. Information that is not labeled as privileged or confidential may be regarded by BOEM as suitable for public release.
b. Personally Identifiable Information BOEM does not consider anonymous comments; please include your name and address as part of your comment.
You should be aware that your entire comment, including your name, address, and any personally identifiable information PII included in your comment may be made publicly available. All submissions from identified individuals, businesses, and organizations will be available for public viewing on regulations.gov. For BOEM to withhold your PII from disclosure, you must identify any information contained in your comments that, if released, would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of your personal privacy. You must also briefly describe any possible harmful consequences of the disclosure of information, such as embarrassment, injury, or other harm.
c. Section 304 of NHPA 54 U.S.C.
307103a After consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, BOEM is required to withhold the location, character, or ownership of historic resources if it determines that disclosure may, among other things, risk harm to the historic resources or impede the use of a traditional religious site by practitioners. Tribal entities should designate in their submissions information that falls under section 304
of NHPA as confidential.

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