DRAFT: privelidged and confidential Re: response to FAA FOIA release Windfarm Flamenco

Re: Feb 25th response to CORALations FOIA request.

Ms. Elizabeth L. Ray Vice President Mission Support Services Air Traffic Organization U.S. Dept of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Mission Support Services 800 Independence Ave. SW Washington, DC 20591 March 11, 2013 Dear Ms. Ray: CORALations is a non-profit coral conservation organization based on the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico. Through our normal course of doing business, we discovered a concern regarding No Hazard determinations to air traffic for a proposed wind farm near the airport on this small Caribbean island. Culebra is growing in tourism popularity. Visitors and locals access the island using ferry service from Fajardo or via small planes from San Juan, Ceiba and the Virgin Islands. There is no hospital on the island, and all medical emergencies depend on safe and smooth air evacuation to the big island via small planes, and during varying wind conditions. We first became aware of a problem when copies of No Hazard determinations were submitted by the Puerto Rico Administacin de Asuntos Energticos (AAE) (http://www.aaepr.net/detalle_rotator.asp?cnt_id=57), in an environmental impact study (EIS) for a proposed wind farm project, Proyecto Punta Flamenco Windfarm, DIA-2012-AAE-28. (LINK to No HAZ submitted in EIS)The wind turbines were sited along the ridge inside or directly adjacent to the flyzone of Culebra's small airport. This letter references the Feb 25th 2013 letter of response to our Freedom of Information Act request sent to your office on November 30th, 2012. With the FOIA response letter was a CD with the digital documents listed and attached to this communication. We understand a decision was made to redact some of the personal information in this disclosure, and we have no problem with that. The response, however, does not appear to be complete, and we still have the following concerns: The No Hazard determinations submitted in an AEE's, EIS were not based on the actual height of the proposed wind generators. The physical characteristics of the wind generators were not

presented in the EIS submitted to Puerto Rico's Environmental Quality Board. The public only learns at a short noticed public hearing moving through an expedited planning process, that the proposed wind generators are in fact 370 feet tall. The No Hazard determinations included in the EIS had already been terminated at the time of the public hearing, and replaced by others not available to the public online at the FAA website, forcing public to depend on a lengthy Freedom of Information Act process to evaluate a large wind generation project that would change the nature and character of the entire island, and that was proceeding via an expedited local Government planning process. The FOIA response failed to produce any of our communications to the FAA regarding these concerns and on record with your agency prior to the date of the FOIA request. The FOIA response makes no mention of determinations involving wind meters already installed on the ridge above the airport approach. The FOIA response failed to include documentation of public notice associated with any and all required determinations near Culebra's airport. This should be of serious concern to the FAA. One is forced to question such a complicated federal process that involves multiple branches of the Federal Government and public oversight, including the military, that could in any way conclude, and then also re-conclude new determinations, with no raised eye brows, given that the proposed site for these wind turbines lies inside or adjacent too Culebra's fly zone, and small air port. This intuitively seems reflexive of either a flawed or corrupted system, which warrants investigation by experts familiar with FAA rules, and local Government abuse of an expedited permitting process for renewable energies or otherwise, where the outcome could result in such obvious impacts to the safety of the local islanders, Culebra's medical emergencies and tourists that depend on air travel. We are re-writing again for all documentation including record of our email communications with your personnel and documentation and or negative certification of public notice regarding this FOIA. Any inconsistencies regarding documents included in files copied on the CD are noted and highlighted in the enclosure entitled: List of Files Submitted in FAA FOIA response to Lucking dated Feb 25, 2013 with online links to documents provided for the public's benefit. Sincerely,

Mary Ann Lucking Director c. e.

List of Files Submitted in FAA FOIA response to Lucking dated Feb 25, 2013.
2012 WTE_1048_OE (Lucking) FOLDER
Analysis Report Folder
DOD_DHS_LRR_158820875.pdf DOD_MILOPS_158820889.pdf Military Conflicts_USA.pdf Military Conflicts_USAF.pdf Military Conflicts_USN.pdf MVA_MIA_158820869.pdf NASWATCH_AF_15_158820854.pdf NASWATCH_DOD_155820865.pdf NOAA_NEXRAD_158820886.pdf POS_158820855.pdf Traffic_PATTERN_158820861.pdf

Case Notes Folder

PRJT.pdf **No CASE.pdf?

Division Responses.pdf Documents Folder

159384400_12_1048-1053.pdf 159386375_12_1048 thru 1053.pdf 163369196_12_1048-1053-wte.pdf 178295679_BISCO...042019530012.pdf

Letters Folder
**NO CIR file? DNH_167063337.pdf NPH_161005630.pdf TER_169026390.pdf

OeQuickView.pdf Part 77 Analysis Reports

Part 77_CIV_158820842.pdf Part 77_CIV_160409632.pdf Part 77_CIV_167063155.pdf Part_77_MIL_158820848.pdf

**Missing CIV file?

............................................................... 2012 WTE_1049_OE (Lucking) FOLDER

Analysis Report Folder

DOD_DHS_LRR_158820879.pdf DOD_MILOPS_158820890.pdf Military Conflicts_USA.pdf Military Conflicts_USAF.pdf Military Conflicts_USN.pdf MVA_MIA_158820874.pdf NASWATCH_AF_15_158820857.pdf NASWATCH_DOD_155820859.pdf NOAA_NEXRAD_158820887.pdf POS_158820851.pdf Traffic_PATTERN_158820853.pdf

Case Notes Folder

No CASE.pdf ? PRJT.pdf

Division Responses.pdf **NO DOCUMENTS FOLDER

Letters Folder
**NO CIR file. DNH_167063335.pdf NPH_161005912.pdf TER_169026394.pdf

OeQuickView.pdf Part 77 Analysis Reports

Part 77_CIV_158820840.pdf Part 77_CIV_160410071.pdf Part 77_CIV_167063362.pdf Part_77_MIL_158820844.pdf **Missing CIV file?

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2012 WTE_1050_OE (Lucking) FOLDER

Analysis Report Folder

DOD_DHS_LRR_158820998.pdf DOD_MILOPS_158821007.pdf Military Conflicts_USA.pdf Military Conflicts_USAF.pdf Military Conflicts_USN.pdf MVA_MIA_158820993.pdf NASWATCH_AF_15_158820976.pdf NASWATCH_DOD_1558208785.pdf NOAA_NEXRAD_158821004.pdf POS_158820972.pdf Traffic_PATTERN_1588208974.pdf

Division Responses.pdf Case Notes Folder

CASE.pdf PRJT.pdf

LETTERS Folder
CIR_163371250.pdf DNH_167062971.pdf NPH_161006176.pdf TER_169026395.pdf

**No Documents FolderDocuments OeQuickView.pdf Part 77 Analysis Reports

Part 77_CIV_158820961.pdf Part 77_CIV_163371223.pdf Part 77_CIV_163371231.pdf Part 77_CIV_ 167062685.pdf Part_77_MIL_158820963.pd

2012 WTE_1051_OE (Lucking) FOLDER

Analysis Report Folder

DOD_DHS_LRR_158820996.pdf DOD_MILOPS_158821020.pdf Military Conflicts_USA.pdf Military Conflicts_USAF.pdf Military Conflicts_USN.pdf MVA_MIA_158820990.pdf NASWATCH_AF_15_158820987.pdf NASWATCH_DOD_1558820988.pdf NOAA_NEXRAD_158821005.pdf POS_158820979.pdf Traffic_PATTERN_158820983.pdf

Case Notes Folder

CASE.pdf PRJT.pdf

Division Responses.pdf LETTERS Folder **Same files as letters folder in 1050)

CIR_163370863.pdf DNH_167061445.pdf NPH_161004853.pdf TER_169026391.pdf

**No Documents FolderDocuments OeQuickView.pdf Part 77 Analysis Reports

Part 77_CIV_158820962.pdf Part 77_CIV_163371116.pdf Part 77_CIV_163370609.pdf Part 77_CIV_ 167069786.pdf Part_77_MIL_158820966.pdf

2012 WTE_1052_OE (Lucking) FOLDER

Analysis Report Folder

DOD_DHS_LRR_158821106.pdf DOD_MILOPS_158821131.pdf Military Conflicts_USA.pdf Military Conflicts_USAF.pdf Military Conflicts_USN.pdf MVA_MIA_158821103.pdf NASWATCH_AF_15_1588210937.pdf NASWATCH_DOD_1558820988.pdf NOAA_NEXRAD_158821091.pdf POS_158821089.pdf (same as 1051) Traffic_PATTERN_158821091.pdf

Case Notes Folder

** NO CASE.pdf PRJT.pdf

Division Responses.pdf LETTERS Folder

**NO CIR_file? DNH_167062472.pdf NPH_161004194.pdf TER_169026392.pdf

**No Documents FolderDocuments OeQuickView.pdf Part 77 Analysis Reports

Part 77_CIV_158821079.pdfgf Part 77_CIV_160410142pdf Part 77_CIV_167062261.pdf Part 77_CIV_158821083.pdf **Missing MIL file?

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2012 WTE_1053_OE (Lucking) FOLDER

Analysis Report Folder

DOD_DHS_LRR_158821127.pdf DOD_MILOPS_158821155.pdf Military Conflicts_USA.pdf Military Conflicts_USAF.pdf Military Conflicts_USN.pdf MVA_MIA_158821108.pdf NASWATCH_AF_15_158821100.pdf NASWATCH_DOD_1558821101.pdf NOAA_NEXRAD_158821138.pdf POS_158821096.pdf Traffic_PATTERN_158821098.pdf

Case Notes Folder

** NO CASE.pdf? PRJT.pdf

Division Responses.pdf LETTERS Folder

**NO CIR_.pdf? DNH_167062073.pdf NPH_161004428.pdf TER_169026393.pdf

**No Documents Folder OeQuickView.pdf

Part 77 Analysis Reports Part 77_CIV_158821082.pdf Part 77_CIV_160410164.pdf Part 77_CIV_167061590.pdf Part 77_MIL_ 158821086.pdf
**Missing a CIV file?

Internal Project Documents File 58820030

Documents File
159886328_2012-WTE-1048thru1053-OELRR.txt