1. MINUTES of previous meeting.
** APPROVAL OF AGENDA.
2. PERMITS (Projects over
$50,000 with no
objections and with staff recommendation for approval.)
3. CLOSED SESSION.
4. KENT EARLY,
#02-2344, requests a modification to his permit to construct an
8-foot by 460-foot private pier with a 24-foot by 54-foot open-sided
boathouse and a 15-foot by 18-foot fabric personal watercraft cover
adjacent to his property situated along the York River in Gloucester
County. The requested modification would modify the point of
origin and alignment of the pier. The project is protested by
nearby property owners.
5. CHARLES DAVIS, #03-1147, requests
authorization to construct a community fishing pier, a launch ramp for
personal watercraft, canoes and small boats, and a vinyl bulkhead at
community property situated along Piscataway Creek in Essex County. The
project is protested by several nearby property owners.
6. MAURICE LEVIS, ET AL, #04-0725, request
authorization to construct a 90-foot by 5-foot private pier with a
10-foot by 20-foot pier-head adjacent to their property situated along
Back Creek in Mathews County. The project is protested by several
residents along the creek.
7. MICHAEL JEWETT, #03-0849. Formal restoration hearing
concerning ongoing unauthorized activities at a former seafood
offloading facility located at the terminus of North Lawson Road on
Bennett's Creek in Poquoson.
8. PUBLIC COMMENTS
9. REQUEST FROM INDUSTRY to increase the
vessel possession limits in quarters 1 and 2 of the 2005 offshore (EEZ)
commercial summer flounder fishery and modify the start date of the
quarter 1, 2005 fishery. A December public hearing is requested.
10. PUBLIC HEARING: Consideration of an
amendment to Regulation 4 VAC 20-910-10 et seq. that would increase
allowable landings of scup (porgy), from 2000 to 3500 pounds, during
the Winter II period.
11. PUBLIC HEARING: Consideration for
allowing hardship exception requests to obtain a Summer Flounder
Endorsement License.
12. PUBLIC HEARING: The Commission
proposes to establish procedures associated with a public interest
review, for the licensing of pound nets at new locations.
13. PUBLIC HEARING: Any reissue of a
pound net license, for 2005, to Mr. Ernest L. George of White Stone,
for a pound net currently located in the Rappahannock River
(approximately 1/4 mile east of Windmill Point Marina Channel).
Protested by adjacent property owners.
14. RECOMMENDATIONS of the Recreational
Fishing Advisory Board.
15. PUBLIC HEARING: Consideration given to open
additional areas to oyster harvest in the James River, York River and
Chesapeake Bay for the 2004-2005 harvest season.
16. REPEAT OFFENDERS
2A. BLUE RIDGE
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, #04-1581, requests
authorization to install a concrete spillway and 130 linear feet of
riprap scour protection at the location of the dam's outflow pipe which
will extend one and a half (1.5) feet channelward of ordinary high
water adjacent to Marrowbone Creek in Henry County.
2B. TOWN OF CHINCOTEAGUE, #04-2134, requests
authorization to directional drill a 16-inch water main, (approximately
2,550 linear feet) from the Town boat ramp on Chincoteague Island under
Chincoteague Channel, Marsh Island and Black Narrows to a point west of
the Black Narrows Bridge tying into the existing water mains on each
side of the crossing.
2C. HANOVER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES,
#00-0106, requests reauthorization to install, by the
directional drill method, 75 linear feet of a 30" sanitary sewer force
main under the Chickahominy River between Hanover and Henrico Counties.
2D. REGATTA POINT YACHT CLUB, #02-2375, requests
authorization to modify their permit to allow the construction of 680
linear feet of 9-foot wide floating pier in lieu of a similar length of
8-foot wide open-pile fixed pier adjacent to their facility situated
along Broad Creek in Middlesex County.
2E. DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND INLAND FISHERIES,
#04-2191, requests authorization to remove an existing boat
ramp and tending piers and to construct a new 32-foot by 105-foot
concrete boat ramp, two 6-foot by 105-foot open-pile tending piers with
40-foot by 6-foot L-heads, two 105-foot long timber jetties, and 242
linear feet of riprap revetment at the Gloucester Point public landing
along the York River in Gloucester County.
2F. CITY OF NORFOLK, #04-2262, requests
authorization to extend 12 pile-supported stormwater outfall pipes a
total of 752 linear feet and to install 12 sand causeways totaling
40,180 square feet to be utilized for construction access adjacent to
property situated along the Chesapeake Bay in the Oceanview section of
Norfolk. The sand will be removed and the causeway areas will be
regraded to pre-existing contours.
2G. CITY OF FREDERICKSBURG, ET AL, #02-0353,
requests authorization for modification of their existing permit, to
now construct a temporary causeway immediately upstream of the Embrey
Dam, which will include twelve (12), six-foot diameter culverts in
alignment with the dam's existing breach, for access to the dam during
its removal, and in lieu of the previously authorized causeway and
bridge at the upstream crib dam. All work will be performed in
and along the Rappahannock River in Stafford County and the City of
Fredericksburg.
VMRC DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES; THEREFORE, IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS DUE TO A DISABILITY, PLEASE ADVISE KATHY LEONARD (757-247-2200) NO LATER THAN FIVE WORK DAYS PRIOR TO THE MEETING DATE AND IDENTIFY YOUR NEEDS.
FISHERY MANAGEMENT ITEMS WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE HABITAT MANAGEMENT PROJECTS ON THIS AGENDA.