faa foia respn draft

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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 de-pend 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 andattached 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
http://www.aaepr.net/detalle_rotator.asp?cnt_id=57http://www.aaepr.net/detalle_rotator.asp?cnt_id=57


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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.pdfDOD_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.pdf163369196_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_MIL_158820848.pdf


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**Missing CIV file?

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Analysis Report FolderDOD_DHS_LRR_158820879.pdf

DOD_MILOPS_158820890.pdf








POS_158820851.pdfTraffic_PATTERN_158820853.pdf

Case Notes Folder

No CASE.pdf ?

PRJT.pdf


**NO DOCUMENTS FOLDER

Letters Folder

**NO CIR file.

DNH_167063335.pdf

NPH_161005912.pdf

TER_169026394.pdf

OeQuickView.pdf






**Missing CIV file?

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DOD_DHS_LRR_158820998.pdf









POS_158820972.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_CIV_ 167062685.pdf

Part_77_MIL_158820963.pd



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Military Conflicts_USN.pdfMVA_MIA_158820990.pdf




POS_158820979.pdf


Case Notes Folder

CASE.pdf

PRJT.pdf


LETTERS Folder **Same files as letters folder in 1050)

CIR_163370863.pdf

DNH_167061445.pdf

NPH_161004853.pdf

TER_169026391.pdf


OeQuickView.pdf





Part 77_CIV_ 167069786.pdf




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Military Conflicts_USN.pdfMVA_MIA_158821103.pdf




POS_158821089.pdf (same as 1051)


Case Notes Folder

** NO CASE.pdfPRJT.pdf


LETTERS Folder

**NO CIR_file?

DNH_167062472.pdf

NPH_161004194.pdf

TER_169026392.pdf


OeQuickView.pdf


Part 77_CIV_158821079.pdfgf

Part 77_CIV_160410142pdf



**Missing MIL file?

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POS_158821096.pdf


Case Notes Folder

** NO CASE.pdf?

PRJT.pdf


LETTERS Folder

**NO CIR_.pdf?

DNH_167062073.pdf

NPH_161004428.pdf

TER_169026393.pdf

**No Documents Folder

OeQuickView.pdf





Part 77_MIL_ 158821086.pdf

**Missing a CIV file?

Internal Project Documents File 58820030

Documents File

159886328_2012-WTE-1048thru1053-OELRR.txt


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