Cost of the $600,000 survey is being shared equally by the state and Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which regulates wind energy development in federal waters that begin 4.8km from shore along the US east coast.
The survey’s purpose is to accelerate commercial leasing and development of the 133.1sq nautical mile (45,648 hectare) area, whose western edge of the is 43.5km
