# The Mona Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025, Paragraph 20: Low order unexploded ordnance clearance

Extent: E+W

(1) No low order unexploded ordnance clearance activities can commence until for those activities the following have been submitted to and approved in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body and, in respect of the method statement, the MCA—
(a) a method statement for low order unexploded ordnance clearance which must include—
(i) methodologies for—
(aa) identification and investigation of potential unexploded ordnance targets;
(bb) low order unexploded ordnance clearance;
(cc) removal and disposal of large debris;
(ii) a plan showing the area in which clearance activities are proposed to take place;
(iii) confirmation of the total number of unexploded ordnance to be cleared under this licence using low order methods;
(iv) a programme of works; and
(v) any exclusion zones and/or environmental micrositing requirements;
(b) a specific offshore written scheme of investigation and protocol for archaeological discoveries (which must accord with the details set out in the outline offshore written scheme of investigation and protocol for archaeological discoveries); and
(c) a marine mammal mitigation protocol in accordance with the outline marine mammal mitigation protocol, the intention of which is to prevent injury to marine mammals, following current best practice as advised by the statutory nature conservation body.
(2) The method statement and the marine mammal mitigation protocol must be submitted to the licensing authority for approval at least four months prior to the date on which unexploded ordnance clearance activities are intended to commence.
(3) Any unexploded ordnance clearance activities must be undertaken in accordance with the method statement and marine mammal mitigation protocol approved under paragraph (1) and must not give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects to those identified in the environmental statement.
(4) Subject to paragraph (6), an unexploded ordnance close-out report must be submitted to the licensing authority and the statutory nature conservation body within three months following the end of the unexploded ordnance clearance activity and must include the following for each clearance undertaken—
(a) co-ordinates, depth, current speed, charge utilised and the date and time of each clearance; and
(b) whether any mitigation was deployed including feedback on practicalities of deployment of equipment and efficacy of the mitigation where reasonably practicable, or justification if this information is not available.
(5) Should there be more than one unexploded ordnance clearance activity, the report required under paragraph (5) will be provided at intervals agreed with the licensing authority.
(6) No high order unexploded ordnance clearance is permitted by this marine licence.
(7) The total number of unexploded ordnance to be cleared under this licence using low order methods must not exceed 22.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/870/schedule/14/paragraph/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mona-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-14/paragraph-20
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