# 2024-31231: Feds Ask: Anyone Want to Build Wind Farms Around Guam?

2024-31231, Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Guam Outer Continental Shelf-Call for Information and Nominations, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-06, effective BOEM must receive your interest in or comments on commercial leasing within the Call Area no later than April 7, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31231
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31231
- Title: Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Guam Outer Continental Shelf-Call for Information and Nominations
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-06
- Effective: BOEM must receive your interest in or comments on commercial leasing within the Call Area no later than April 7, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Feds Ask: Anyone Want to Build Wind Farms Around Guam?

## Summary

The government is asking people and companies if they’re interested in leasing ocean space near Guam to build wind farms. If you want to join the wind power party or have info about the area, you need to speak up by April 7, 2025. This could lead to new clean energy projects and business opportunities offshore Guam, so get ready to ride the wind wave!

## Abstract

This call for information and nominations (Call or notice) invites public comment on, and assesses interest in, possible commercial wind energy leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Guam as part of planning for commercial leasing in the region. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will consider information received in response to this Call to determine whether to schedule a competitive lease sale or to issue a noncompetitive lease for any portion of the area described in this Call (Call Area). Those interested in providing comments or information regarding site conditions, resources, and multiple uses in close proximity to or within the Call Area should provide the information requested in section 8, "Requested Information from Interested or Affected Parties," under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION heading of this Call. Those interested in leasing within the Call Area for a commercial wind energy project should provide the information described in section 9, "Required Nomination Information." BOEM may or may not offer a lease for a commercial offshore wind energy project within the Call Area after further consultations, public participation, and environmental analyses.

## Effects PRIA read

- Companies Can Nominate Offshore Lease Areas: benefit, high. If you are a company interested in offshore wind near Guam, you can nominate specific OCS blocks within the 2,114,344-acre Call Area for commercial lease. BOEM asks nominators to provide specified information (see section 9) and will consider nominations as it decides whether to hold competitive sa…
- Confidentiality: Aggregated Heatmap, Not Individual Maps: benefit, low. BOEM will not publish individual companies' nomination maps submitted in response to this Call; instead it will publish an aggregated heatmap and a list of qualified companies. Companies may submit confidential materials labeled as such and BOEM may withhold them under FOIA Exemption 4 or NHPA Sect…
- Deep Waters Require Floating Wind Technology: cost, medium. BOEM states the Guam Call Area is in water too deep for traditional fixed-bottom foundations and will require floating offshore wind technology; BOEM requests industry information on development in depths greater than 1,300 meters and in areas with seafloor slope greater than 10 degrees. The Call A…
- DoD and Agency Coordination Could Limit Lease Areas: cost, medium. BOEM will coordinate with the Department of Defense and other agencies and may remove OCS blocks from leasing if they are incompatible with DoD activities. Potential mitigation measures listed include hold harmless agreements, mandatory coordination with DoD, restrictions on electromagnetic emissio…
- Environmental, Cultural, and NEPA Reviews Required: mixed, medium. Before issuing leases BOEM will prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) under NEPA and conduct consultations (including Endangered Species Act, Magnuson-Stevens Act, and Section 106 NHPA); BOEM will also require a separate project-specific NEPA analysis before approving any construction and operat…
- BOEM Schedule Signals Possible 2028 Lease Sale: benefit, medium. BOEM's five-year renewable energy leasing schedule includes a potential lease sale for a U.S. Territory in 2028, indicating a possible multi-year timeline toward lease issuance and project development for interested companies.

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## Sources
- [2024-31231 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/06/2024-31231/commercial-leasing-for-wind-power-development-on-the-guam-outer-continental-shelf-call-for)
- [2024-31231 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-06/pdf/2024-31231.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31231 (as of 2026-06-08).