AGENDA April 25, 2017

** APPROVAL OF AGENDA.

1. MINUTES of previous meeting.

2. PERMITS (Projects over $500,000.00 with no objections and with staff recommendation for approval).

3. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS.

4. CLOSED MEETING FOR CONSULTATION WITH, OR BRIEFING BY, COUNSEL.

5. DONALD and MARY PADGETT, #17-0022 Request authorization to install approximately 50 linear feet of 5-foot tall interlocking PVC sheet piling, immediately adjacent to an exposed concrete house foundation, situated at 347 Villa Road, adjacent to the James River in Surry County. The project requires a dune/beach permit.

6. VIRGINIA BEACH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, #17-0174 Requests authorization to retain two (2) existing channel marker buoys in the Keelings Drain section of the City's Eastern Branch of the Lynnhaven River municipal channel.

7. DISCUSSION Update of Regulation 4 VAC 20-120-10 ET SEQ. "Pertaining to the Promulgation of a Public Notice on Applications to Encroach In, On, or Over Subaqueous Lands of the Commonwealth"

8. PUBLIC COMMENTS

9. OFFENDERS

10. PUBLIC HEARING Proposed amendments to Chapter 4 VAC 20-450-10 et seq., "Pertaining to the Taking of Bluefish", to establish the 2017 Virginia commercial bluefish quota as 1,014,773 pounds.

11. DISCUSSION Presentation of 2016-2017 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Study results.

12. REQUEST FOR AN EMERGENCY AMENDMENT Chapter 4 VAC 20-910-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Scup (Porgy)", to establish the 2017 Virginia Summer period commercial quota as 11,812 pounds.

13. REQUEST FOR AN EMERGENCY AMENDMENT Request for an emergency amendment to Chapter 4 VAC 20-720-10 et seq., to modify the timing when oyster harvesters may pay the oyster resource user fee.

PAGE 2 ITEMS

A. LEHIGH CEMENT CO. LLC, #17-0321 Requests authorization to construct 300 linear feet of new bulkhead two (2) feet channelward of an existing bulkhead, including a concrete cap, along Hampton Roads, at the Lehigh Cement Company facility at 8791 Hampton Boulevard in Norfolk. Staff recommends approval with a royalty of $3,000.00 for the filling of 600 square feet of State-owned subaqueous land at a rate of $5.00 per square foot and $1,200.00 for the encroachment over 600 square feet at a rate of $2.00 per square foot.

B. CITY OF HAMPTON, #17-0304 Requests authorization to install an 8-foot wide open-pile pier extending 90 feet channelward of mean low water with a 7.5-foot wide by 55-foot long aluminum gangway attached to a 30-foot wide by 209-foot long floating pier designed to cradle sailing vessels along Mill Creek at the Hampton Recreation Center on Fort Monroe in the City of Hampton.

C. TELXIUS, #16-1304 Requests authorization to install a trans-Atlantic fiber optic telecommunications cable extending from a previously permitted and existing submerged conduit within the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to 920 Vanderbilt Avenue (Croatan Beach Municipal Parking Lot) in Virginia Beach to the Commonwealth's three (3) nautical mile offshore boundary. The submerged cable will be installed by a cable sea plow within a 100 meter corridor to a depth of approximately 1.5 meters below the seabed. Staff recommends approval with a royalty of $45,570.00 for the encroachment under 15,190 linear feet of State-owned submerged bottom at a rate of $3.00 per linear foot.

FISHERY MANAGEMENT ITEMS WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE HABITAT MANAGEMENT PROJECTS ON THIS AGENDA.



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