Vineyard Wind officials said they are “thankful” that the project can get “back on track” under an updated suspension order from the feds as a Nantucket resident warned Congress of the project’s dangers to the island.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has given the green light to Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova to resume “certain limited additional activities,” on the installation of towers and components  of the project off the coast of Nantucket.

A joint release from the companies highlighted how the towers and nacelles, which house the turbines, are “components not associated with the blade event” on July 13.

Blade installation and power production are still on hold, following what island officials and residents have described as a “crisis,” with debris – shards of fiberglass and foam – falling into the ocean and washing ashore.

Last month’s incident also prompted island officials to close beaches for a day as a response.

Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova said they have also begun to execute “controlled cutting activities on turbine AW-38, substantially reducing the amount of the damaged blade that presents a risk for additional debris falling into the ocean.”

”Our primary focus continues to be removing the parts of the blade that pose any risk of contributing further debris into the ocean,” GE Vernova Chief Sustainability Officer Roger Martella said in a statement Tuesday.  “We are thankful for our stakeholders, partners, and the skilled professionals at the site and behind the scenes for their unrelenting commitment to safe execution of these plans and the progress and risk mitigation of the last few days.”

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s updated order reflects that the two companies “have satisfied the safety and risk assessment conditions to continue” certain activities, including installing inter-array cables and conducting surveys outside the damaged turbine’s safety exclusion zone.”

“The updated Order issued by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement reflects the unity of effort, extensive planning, independent third-party validation, and relentless focus on safety that went into developing our action plan to secure the remainder of the damaged blade and get this critical project back on track,” Vineyard Wind CEO Klaus S. Møller said in a statement.

Island resident Amy DiSibio, a member of the ACK4Whales community group fighting the project, traveled to southern New Jersey for a Tuesday congressional field hearing on “offshore wind industrialization.”

ACK4Whales last week called for a moratorium on all offshore wind development and is preparing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal on a lawsuit that looks to block the Vineyard Wind project.

“Everybody is concerned,” DiSibio said during the hearing, of how island residents feel about the planned 62-turbine, 806-megawatt wind farm. “The beaches were a disaster, the residents are concerned … It’s a tourism-driven economy, and when you shut beaches that’s a disaster.”

U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican from southern New Jersey, hinted that he believes the Nantucket incident is “nothing” compared to what may arise during hurricane season.

“Slivers of fiberglass, is that what we want in our ocean? Are you kidding me?” he said. “I can’t even believe we’re talking about this.”