Final Environmental Impact Report

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CAPE WIND ENERGY PROJECT  FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT/DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL IMPACT  FEBRUARY 15, 2007

COVER LETTER  (267 KB)

CIRCULATION LIST (551 KB)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (156 KB)

FULL FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (FEIR)  (3.9 MB) Table of Contents, Acronyms and Abbreviations 1.0  Executive Summary 2.0  Project Description 3.0  Response to the Draft Environmental Impact Report and Notice of Project Change Certificates 4.0  Cumulative Impact Analysis 5.0  Summary of Project Mitigation 6.0  MEPA Draft Section 61 Findings 7.0  Cape Cod Commission Development of Regional Impact 8.0  Federal and Local Regulatory Permitting and Consistency 9.0  Response to Comments

FIGURES

Figures Section 2.0 (8.5 MB)

Figures Section 3.2 (4.0 MB)

Figures Section 3.9 - 3.12 (6.7 MB)

Figures Section 3.15 - 3.20 (5.5 MB)

APPENDICES

Appendix 2.0-A  Draft Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (7.5 MB)

Appendix 2.0-B  Operation, Service and Maintenance Plan (54 KB)

Appendix 2.0-C  Draft Oil Spill Response Plan (212 KB)

Appendix 2.0-D  Draft Outline Emergency Response Plan (107 KB)

Appendix 2.0-E  Draft Safety Plan (82 KB)

Appendix 2.0-F  Draft Environmental Health & Safety Plans (691 KB)

Appendix 3.1-A  Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Draft Environmental Impact Report Certificate and Notice of Project Change Certificate (2.1 MB)

Appendix 3.2-A  Analysis of Effects of Wind Turbine Generator Pile Array for the Alternative Site of the Cape Wind Energy Project (978 KB)

Appendix 3.2-B  Simulation of Sediment Transport and Deposition from Cable Burial Operations for the Alternative Site of the Cape Wind Energy Project (1.1 MB)

Appendix 3.2-C  Fisheries Data Report South of Tuckernuck Area (734 KB)

Appendix 3.2-D  Visual Impact Assessment for South of Tuckernuck Island Alternative: Final Environmental Impact Report (658 KB)

Appendix 3.2-E  The Impact of Breaking Waves on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Design (658 KB)

Appendix 3.6-A  Winter/Nocturnal Duck Survey 2005 Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts (1.3 MB)

Appendix 3.6-B  Fall 2005 Mobile Avian Radar System (MARS) Monitoring Report Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts (788 KB)

Appendix 3.6-C  Long-Tailed Duck Report Winter 2005-2006 (21.5 MB)

Appendix 3.6-D  Spring 2006 Mobile Avian Radar System (MARS) Monitoring Report Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts (933 KB)

Appendix 3.6-E Tern Observations Near Monomoy Island, August 28-31, 2006 (693 KB)

Appendix 3.6-F  Avian White Paper for the Cape Wind Energy Project (225 KB)

Appendix 3.6-G  Mobile Avian Radar System (Mars) 2002 Monitoring Report: Data Reanalysis Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts (2.1 MB)

Appendix 3.6-H  Summary of the Cape Wind and Massachusetts Audubon Society Aerial  Surveys, 2002-2006 (22 MB)

Appendix 3.6-I  Collision mortalities at Horseshoe Shoal of bird species of special concern (350 KB)

Appendix 3.6-J Population Viability Analysis for the Roseate Tern Nesting in the Northwest Atlantic (240 KB)

Appendix 3.6-K  Population Viability Analysis for the New England Population of the Piping Plover (335 KB)

Appendix 3.7-A  Marine Biological Assessment for the Cape Wind Project (964 KB)

Appendix 3.7-B  Pinniped Assessment for the Cape Wind Project (1 MB)

Appendix 3.7-C  Sensitivity of Marine Organisms to Undersea Electric and Magnetic Fields (156 KB)

Appendix 3.8-A  Additional Life History Descriptions for Commercially and Recreationally Important Species and Forage Species (547 KB)

Appendix 3.8-B  Fisheries Data Report for the Cape Wind Energy Project (2.5 MB)

Appendix 3.8-C  Essential Fish Habitat Assessment for the Cape Wind Energy Project (1 MB)

Appendix 3.8-D  Survey of Commercial and Recreational Fishing Activities (4.6 MB)

Appendix 3.9-A  Geotechnical/Benthic Field Evaluations Report (458 KB)

Appendix 3.9-B  Potential Impacts to Predator-Prey Relationships as a Result of the Proposed Cape Wind Project in Nantucket Sound (328 KB)

Appendix 3.10-A  A Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Investigation - Horseshoe Shoal (16.6 MB)

Appendix 3.10-B  Cape Wind Submerged Aquatic Diver Survey - Lewis Bay (161 KB)

Appendix 3.11-A  Cultural Regulatory Correspondence (814 KB)

Appendix 3.11-B  Supplemental Marine Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Revised Layout Offshore Project Area (Locational Information omitted in copies for public distribution) (75 KB)

Appendix 3.11-C  Visual Impact Assessment of Revised Layout on Multiple Historic Properties (9 MB)

Appendix 3.12-A  Visual Regulatory Correspondence (1.1 MB)

Appendix 3.12-B  Seascape and Shoreline Visibility Assessment (6.6 MB)

Appendix 3.13-A  Revised Noise Analysis for Relocated WTGs (1.2 MB)

Appendix 3.13-B  Final EIR Underwater Noise Analysis (330 KB)

Appendix 3.14-A  Estimates of Seabed Scar Recovery from Jet Plow Cable Burial Operations and Possible Cable Exposure on Horseshoe Shoal from Sand Wave Migration (367 KB)

Appendix 3.14-B  Analysis of Effects of Wind Turbine Generator Pile Array of the Cape Wind Energy Project in Nantucket Sound (2.2 MB)

Appendix 3.14-C  Simulation of Sediment Transport and Deposition from Jet Plow Operations in Nantucket Sound for the Cape Wind Energy Project (1.8 MB)

Appendix 3.14-D  Revised Scour Report (721 KB)

Appendix 3.14-E  Conceptual Rock Armor Scour Protection Design (125 KB)

Appendix 3.14-F  USACE Pile Effect Letter (229 KB)

Appendix 3.14-G  Hydrodynamic Analyses of Scour Effects around Wind Turbine Generator Piles, Use of Rock Armoring and Scour Mats, and Coastal Erosion and Deposition (24 KB)

Appendix 3.14-H  SSCS Scientific Measurment Device Station Report (510 KB)

Appendix 3.15-A  NHESP and USFWS Correspondence (342 KB)

Appendix 3.16-A  Simulation of Oil Spills from the Cape Wind Energy Project (2.9 MB)

Appendix 3.16-B  Oil Spill Probability Analysis for the Cape Wind Energy Project in Nantucket Sound (961 KB)

Appendix 3.21-A  Revised Navigational Risk Assessment (17.8 MB)

Appendix 3.21-B  Notice of Affirmation of Determination of No Hazard to Air Navigation (204 KB)

Appendix 3.22-A  Executive Summary - Wind Power Geoplanner Licensed Microwave Search & Worse Case Fresnel Zone (462 KB)

Appendix 3.22-B  PavePaws Letter (94 KB)

Appendix 3.23-A  Analysis of the Potential Economic Impacts of the Cape Wind Project on Commercial Fisheries in the Project Area, Nantucket Sound (2.5 MB)

Appendix 3.23-B  Analysis of the Potential Socioeconomic Impacts of the Cape Wind Project on Recreational Fisheries on Horseshoe Shoal, Nantucket Sound (181 KB)

Appendix 3.23-C  Cape Wind Energy Project System Impact Studies (5.5 MB)

Appendix 9.0-A  Comment Letters (177 MB)

Appendix 9.0-B  Discussion of USFWS Issues Regarding Collision Estimates and Radar Studies for USACE's DEIS for the Cape Wind Project (29 KB)