NJ marine resources - upcoming meetings

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Dear New Jersey Marine Resource Stakeholder:

In a continuing effort to make stakeholders aware of offshore wind energy development plans in the New York/New Jersey Bight, the NJDEP is alerting you to 3 meetings and 1 webinar being hosted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in September. The public meetings will discuss the feedback BOEM has received in the recently published Call for Information and Nominations (Call) for potential offshore wind energy leasing and development in the Bight.

Dates, times, locations, and other information, are included in the attachments.

There is no cost to participate in the meetings or webinar.

Please feel free to distribute this information to any interested party.

You are receiving this email because you are registered with the NJ Saltwater Recreational Registry Program.

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the details...

September 7, 2018

Dear New Jersey Marine Resource Stakeholder:

In a continuing effort to make stakeholders aware of offshore wind energy development plans in the New York/New Jersey Bight, the NJDEP is alerting you to 3 meetings and 1 webinar being hosted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in September. The public meetings are to discuss the feedback BOEM has received in the recently published Call for Information and Nominations (Call) for potential offshore wind energy leasing and development in the Bight.

The meetings will be held at the following locations:

Monday, Sept. 17th – Shade Tree Community Center
60 Shade Tree Lane
Aquebogue, NY
5pm-8pm

Tuesday, Sept. 18th - Waypoint Event Center at Fairfield Inn & Suites
Sea Loft Room
185 MacArthur Drive
New Bedford, MA
5pm-8pm

Thursday, Sept. 20th - Long Branch Library
328 Broadway
Long Branch, NJ
5pm-7:45pm

Tuesday, Sept. 25th - Webinar hosted by BOEM
https://orep.adobeconnect.com/nybightareaid/
1pm-4pm

There is no cost to participate in the meetings or webinar. Additional details about the meeting format can be found at https://www.boem.gov/note09042018/.

The NJDEP encourages marine resource stakeholders to regularly review BOEM’s materials online for the most up-to-date information. Stakeholders are also encouraged to review the New York Offshore Wind Master Plan, which was produced by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Please see below for links to these materials.

As part of this outreach, the NJDEP is making every attempt to contact as many marine resource constituents as possible. However, given the communication tools currently available, we recognize that we might not have reached all interested parties. It is also possible that you may have received duplicates of this message if you are subscribed to more than one Fish and Wildlife related listserv. Please feel free to distribute this information to any interested party. Finally, please note that the NJDEP may not be able to provide similar advisory communications in the future.

Sincerely,
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection