Abstract
Park City Wind, LLC (the Proponent) is proposing to develop offshore renewable wind energy facilities in Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Lease Area OCS-A 0534. This development is known as New England Wind and includes two phases: Phase 1 (which includes Park City Wind) and Phase 2 (which includes Commonwealth Wind). On behalf of the Proponent, SEARCH, Inc. (SEARCH) and Gray & Pape, Inc. (G&P) completed marine archaeological resources assessments (MARAs) of geophysical and geotechnical survey data collected for the New England Wind Southern Wind Development Area (SWDA; Figure 1) and offshore export cable corridor (OECC) areas in federal waters and Nantucket Sound (Figure 2). The MARAs are presented in Volume II-D of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) and Appendix E of the COP Addendum for the South Coast Variant submitted to BOEM for New England Wind. The purpose of the assessments was to identify submerged cultural resources or potential submerged cultural resources, that may be affected by seabed-disturbing Project activities, including site characterization surveys and the construction, operation, and/or decommissioning of project facilities.