(a) You must submit a SAP, COP, or GAP and receive BOEM approval before you conduct activities on your lease or grant as set forth in the following table:
| Before you:
| You must submit and obtain approval for your:
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| (1) Conduct site assessment activities on your commercial lease, such as meteorological towers or other facilities that are installed on the seabed using a fixed-bottom foundation requiring professional engineering design and assessment of sediment, meteorological, and oceanographic conditions as part of the design | SAP under §§ 585.605 through 585.613.
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| (2) Conduct any activities pertaining to construction of facilities for commercial operations on your commercial lease | COP under §§ 585.620 through 585.628.
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| (3) Conduct any activities on your limited lease or grant in any OCS area | GAP under §§ 585.640 through 585.648. |
(b) BOEM may waive certain types of information or analyses that you otherwise must provide in your proposed plan when you demonstrate that:
(1) Sufficient applicable information or analysis is readily available to BOEM;
(2) The coastal or marine resources that are the subject of the information requirement are not present or affected;
(3) Other factors affect your ability to obtain or BOEM's need for the required information; or
(4) Information is neither necessary nor required for a State to determine consistency with its coastal management program.