(a) You must submit with your COP detailed information to assist BOEM in complying with NEPA and other relevant laws. Your COP must describe those resources, conditions, and activities listed in the following table that could be affected by your proposed activities, or that could affect the activities proposed in your COP, including:
| Type of information: | Including: |
|---|---|
| (1) Hazard information | Meteorology, oceanography, sediment transport, geology, and shallow geological or manmade hazards. |
| (2) Water quality | Turbidity and total suspended solids from construction. |
| (3) Biological resources | Benthic communities, marine mammals, sea turtles, coastal and marine birds, fish and shellfish, plankton, seagrasses, and plant life. |
| (4) Threatened or endangered species | As defined by the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). |
| (5) Sensitive biological resources or habitats | Essential fish habitat, refuges, preserves, special management areas identified in coastal management programs, sanctuaries, rookeries, hard bottom habitat, chemosynthetic communities, calving grounds, barrier islands, beaches, dunes, and wetlands. |
| (6) Archaeological resources | As required by the NHPA (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.), as amended. |
| (7) Social and economic resources | Employment, existing offshore and coastal infrastructure (including major sources of supplies, services, energy, and water), land use, subsistence resources and harvest practices, recreation, recreational and commercial fishing (including typical fishing seasons, location, and type), minority and lower income groups, coastal zone management programs, and viewshed. |
| (8) Coastal and marine uses | Military activities, vessel traffic, and energy and nonenergy mineral exploration or development. |
| (9) Consistency Certification | As required by the CZMA regulations: (i) 15 CFR part 930, subpart D, if your COP is submitted before lease issuance. (ii) 15 CFR part 930, subpart E, if your COP is submitted after lease issuance. |
| (10) Other resources, conditions, and activities | As identified by BOEM. |
(b) You must submit one paper copy and one electronic copy of your consistency certification. Your consistency certification must include:
(1) One copy of your consistency certification under either subsection 307(c)(3)(B) of the CZMA (16 U.S.C. 1456(c)(3)(B)) and 15 CFR 930.76 or subsection 307(c)(3)(A) of the CZMA (16 U.S.C. 1456(c)(3)(A)) and 15 CFR 930.57, stating that the proposed activities described in detail in your plans comply with the State(s) approved coastal management program(s) and will be conducted in a manner that is consistent with such program(s); and
(2) “Necessary data and information,” as required by 15 CFR 930.58.
(c) You must submit your oil spill response plan, as required by 30 CFR part 254.
(d) You must submit your Safety Management System as required by §585.810.
[76 FR 64623, Oct. 18, 2011, as amended at 79 FR 21624, Apr. 17, 2014]
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