{ "currentVersion": 10.41, "id": 63, "name": "USCG MA RI PARS Study Areas", "type": "Feature Layer", "description": "This data layer represents the boundaries of The Areas Offshore of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Port Access Route Study. The US Coast Guard announced the completion of the study in a Federal Register Notice on May 27, 2020. The study focused on the seven adjacent leased areas of the outer continental shelf south of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and east of Rhode Island that together constitute the Massachusetts/Rhode Island Wind Energy Area (MA/RI WEA). The study was conducted to (1) determine what, if any, navigational safety concerns exist with vessel transits in the study area; (2) determine whether to recommend changes to enhance navigational safety by examining existing shipping routesand waterway uses as any or all of the lease areas within the MA/RI WEA are partially or fully developed as wind farms; and (3) to evaluate the need for establishing vessel routing measures.\n
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\nThe study resulted in the following general recommendations:
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