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Safety Zone; Sunrise Wind Farm Project Area, Outer Continental Shelf, Lease OCS-A 0487, Offshore Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Atlantic Ocean
The Coast Guard published this final rule in the Federal Register on June 16, 2025. It took effect on June 16, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Coast Guard is establishing 85 temporary safety zones around the construction of individual wind energy facilities during the development of the Sunrise Wind Farm project area. The project area lies within Federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf, specifically in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-A 0487, approximately 16 nautical miles south of Martha's Vineyard, MA. This action protects life, property, and the environment during construction of each facility. When a safety zone is being enforced, only attending vessels and vessels with authorization are permitted to enter or remain in the safety zone.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-11020
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Temporary interim rule and request for comments
- Agency
- Homeland Security Department; Coast Guard
- Published
- June 16, 2025
- Takes effect
- June 16, 2025
- Dates
- Effective date: This rule will be effective without actual notice from June 16, 2025 through 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2028. However individual safety zones will only be enforced during active construction, or in other instances where a hazard to navigation may exist, as determined by the First Coast Guard District Commander. For the purposes of enforcement, actual notice will be used from June 1, 2025, until June 16, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket Number USCG-2025-0056
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1625-AA00
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 33 CFR 147
- Topics
- Continental shelf; Marine safety; Navigation (water)
- Pages
- 7
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