Paragraph 18 Post constructionI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

The undertaker shall, in discharging condition 10(2)(a), submit details for approval by the MMO of proposed post-construction surveys, including methodologies and timings, and proposed format, content and timings for providing reports on the results. The survey proposals shall specify each survey’s objectives and explain how it will assist in either informing a valid comparison with the pre-construction position and enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement.

(2)

The post-construction surveys shall comprise, in outline—

(a)

a survey to determine the location, extent and composition of any benthic habitats of conservation and/or economic importance (including Annex I habitats), to validate predictions made in the environmental statement;

(b)

an ornithological survey covering the area(s) within the offshore Order limits in which construction works were carried out, and any wider area(s) where appropriate, which is required to test predictions in the environmental statement concerning key ornithological interests of relevance to the authorised scheme;

(c)

a high resolution acoustic survey undertaken within the first six months following completion of construction and after any major storm event (a greater than 1 in 10 year wave event within the Order limits seaward of MHWS in terms of a wave height measured from the Sizewell Waverider buoy (WMO ID: 62294)) within the order limits in which construction works were carried out to assess any changes to bedform morphology; and

(d)

a fish resource survey covering the area(s) within the offshore Order limits in which construction works were carried out, and any wider area(s) where appropriate, which is required to test predictions in the environmental statement concerning key fish resource interests of relevance to the authorised scheme.

(3)

The undertaker shall carry out the surveys approved under paragraph (1) and provide the agreed reports in the agreed format, unless otherwise agreed with the MMO, in consultation with Natural England and JNCC.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 2 para. 18 in force at 15.6.2013, see art. 1