Sept 12 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has asked a

federal judge to cancel the Interior Department's 2024 approval

of a wind farm off the coast of Maryland, according to court

documents filed on Friday.

In the motion, attorneys for the agency said Interior's

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management had underestimated both

impacts to search and rescue operations within the project area

and potential harm to commercial fisheries.

The action is the latest in a series of moves the

administration has made to stymie development of offshore wind

and other clean energy facilities.

Attorneys for the Interior Department filed the motion in

U.S. District Court in Maryland in a lawsuit brought by the

mayor and city council of Ocean City, Maryland, that challenged

the agency's approval of the US Wind project.

US Wind said it would defend the project's permits in

court.

"After many years of analysis, several federal agencies

issued final permits to the project," spokesperson Nancy Sopko

said in a statement. "We intend to vigorously defend those

permits in federal court, and we are confident that the court

will uphold their validity and prevent any adverse action

against them."

US Wind is a subsidiary of Renexia SpA, the renewable

development arm of Italian infrastructure firm Toto Holding.