(a) Plans and documents. Before you conduct the activities on your lease or unit listed in the following table, you must submit, and BOEM must approve, the listed plans and documents. Your plans and documents may cover one or more leases or units. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Exploration Plan (EP), Conduct any exploration activities on a
lease or unit.(2) Development and Conduct any development and production
Production Plan (DPP), activities on a lease or unit in any OCS
area other than the Western Gulf of
Mexico.(3) Development Operations Conduct any development and production
Coordination Document activities on a lease or unit in the
(DOCD), Western GOM.(4) BSEE approved Deepwater Conduct post-drilling installation
Operations Plan (DWOP), activities in any water depth associated
with a development project that will
involve the use of a non-conventional
production or completion technology.(5) Conservation Information Commence production from development
Document (CID), projects in water depths greater than
1,312 feet (400 meters).(6) EP, DPP, or DOCD, Conduct geological or geophysical (G&G;)
exploration or a development G&G;
activity (see definitions under Sec.
550.105) on your lease or unit when:
(i) It will result in a physical
penetration of the seabed greater than
500 feet (152 meters);
(ii) It will involve the use of
explosives;
(iii) The Regional Director determines
that it might have a significant adverse
effect on the human, marine, or coastal
environment; or
(iv) The Regional Supervisor, after
reviewing a notice under Sec. 550.209,
determines that an EP, DPP, or DOCD is
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(b) Submitting additional information. On a case-by-case basis, the Regional Supervisor may require you to submit additional information if the Regional Supervisor determines that it is necessary to evaluate your proposed plan or document.
(c) Limiting information. The Regional Director may limit the amount of information or analyses that you otherwise must provide in your proposed plan or document under this subpart when:
(1) Sufficient applicable information or analysis is readily available to BOEM;
(2) Other coastal or marine resources are not present or affected;
(3) Other factors such as technological advances affect information needs; or
(4) Information is not necessary or required for a State to determine consistency with their CZMA Plan.
(d) Referencing. In preparing your proposed plan or document, you may reference information and data discussed in other plans or documents you previously submitted or that are otherwise readily available to BOEM.