The Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) Ocean Planning Committee (OPC) was originally scheduled to hold an in-person meeting on April 2, 2020. Due to recent events, the NROC OPC decided instead to hold a series of webinars starting on April 2 and seek to hold its next in-person meeting in the fall of 2020.

• Download the webinar summary
• The April 2 webinar occurred from 10am-12pm (Eastern), with over 130 participants.
• View the agenda for the April 2 webinar, which also includes a list of topics for future webinars.
• View and download the presentations from the webinar:
  • Review of NROC’sOcean Planning Activities Since the June 2019 Meeting (1.6mb)
  • Update on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan Revision (810kb) Ben Haskell, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
  • Offshore Wind in the Northeast
  • • Federal Offshore Wind Energy Program Update for the Northeast (3.3mb) Jim Bennett, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
    • Port Access Route Studies (PARS), including the PARS for the Areas Offshore of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (1.4mb) Michele DesAutels, U.S. Coast Guard
    • Offshore Wind Transmission & Grid Integration in New England: An Overview (3.6mb) Fara Courtney, Outer Harbor Consulting and Facilitator for the Grid and Transmission Working Group of the Business Network for Offshore Wind