Nov 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. District Court judge ruled on

Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's Interior Department

may reconsider the Biden administration's approval of the

SouthCoast Wind project planned off the coast of Massachusetts.

The order sends the matter back to Interior's Bureau of

Ocean Energy Management to revisit its decision as part of

Trump's broad review of U.S. offshore wind leasing and

permitting.

Interior has said it identified issues with the project's

environmental analysis and that a review could result in a

withdrawal of the SouthCoast permit.

Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the

District of Columbia issued the ruling in a lawsuit brought by

the island town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, earlier this year,

challenging the agency's approval of the project.

SouthCoast Wind's developer, Ocean Winds, is a joint venture

between Portugal's EDP Renewables and France's ENGIE

.

In the order, Chutkan wrote that the court was not convinced

that the developer was likely to suffer immediate and

significant hardship as a result of the reconsideration.

Ocean Winds was not immediately available for comment.