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. VIRGINIA BEACH
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, #03-0641. Commission update by
City representatives regarding the status of their permit to undertake
improvements to the Rudee Inlet infrastructure to reduce shoaling in
the inlet, improve navigation and increase the efficiency of
maintenance dredging operations.
5. CHARLES W. DAVIS,
#03-1147. Commission review on appeal of 25 or more
freeholders of the January 22, 2004 decision by the Essex County
Wetlands Board to approve a permit to construct a community fishing
pier, a launch ramp for personal watercraft and canoes, and a vinyl
bulkhead at community property situated along Piscataway Creek in Essex
County.
6. CITY OF HAMPTON,
et al, #03-0740, requests authorization to dredge, by hydraulic
method, and to a maximum depth of -35 feet below MLW, 522,000 cubic
yards of beach-quality sand from a 38-acre area of Horseshoe
Shoals. 281,000 cubic yards of the material will be pumped and
deposited along 3,785 linear feet of shoreline at Buckroe Beach, and
241,000 cubic yards of the material will be placed on 2,050 linear feet
of public beach located near Salt Ponds.
7. MOBJACK MARINA,
INC., #03-1221, requests authorization to construct one (1)
90-foot long timber bulkhead, one (1) 90-foot long timber jetty, six
(6) 3-foot wide by 45-foot long finger piers, six (6) 3-foot wide by
30-foot long finger piers, install one (1) mooring buoy, creating a
total of 11 mooring spaces, dredging 7,647 cubic yards of subaqueous
material creating a 50-foot wide by 1,000-foot long channel with a
depth of minus eight (-8) feet at mean low water adjacent to their
property situated along the East River in the village of Mobjack in
Mathews County. The project is protested by a nearby property
owners and an oyster ground leaseholder.
8. BUBBA'S MARINA,
#01-1979, requests authorization to construct 2,087 square feet
of open-pile commercial wharf to accommodate a commercial, open-pile
building for a proposed wholesale/retail fish market and commercial
seafood unloading dock, at their existing restaurant and marina
facility situated adjacent to the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach.
9. ED CALL, et al,
#03-2456, requests authorization to install 495 linear feet of
bulkhead on the beach across nine (9) properties situated along the
Chesapeake Bay in Hampton. A Coastal Primary Sand Dune and
Beaches permit is required.
10. SUE ROMAN,
#03-2377, requests authorization to install 55 linear feet of
bulkhead on the beach at her property situated along the Chesapeake Bay
in Hampton. A Coastal Primary Sand Dune and Beaches permit is
required.
11. MARK HEFLIN,
#03-2404, requests authorization to install and backfill 60
linear feet of bulkhead on the beach at his property situated along the
Chesapeake Bay in Hampton. A Coastal Primary Sand Dune and
Beaches permit is required.
12. LEE ANDERSON,
#04-0104, requests authorization to expand an existing elevated
deck on the beach at his property situated along the Chesapeake Bay in
Hampton. A Coastal Primary Sand Dune and Beaches permit is
required.
13. OTIS P. ASAL AND
ROBERT A. SCOTT, #03-027S, request authorization to lease
approximately Five (5) acres of Oyster Planting Ground in the
Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of Old Plantation Creek. The project is
protested by nearby property owners.
14. PUBLIC COMMENTS
15. DISCUSSION:
Request by Staff to set aside an area at the mouth of Plantation Creek
for at least ten (10) years.
16. Public Hearing:
Proposed amendments to regulation 4VAC20-920-10 et seq., "Pertaining to
Landing Licenses" modifying requirements for the transfer of summer
flounder endorsement licenses.
17. Public Hearing:
Proposed amendments to Regulation 4VAC20-720-10 et seq., "Pertaining to
Restrictions on Oyster Harvest" to open an oyster hand scrape area in
Pocomoke Sound and to extend the oyster dredge season in the
Pocomoke-Tangier Sound Management Area.
18. Scup and Black
Sea Bass: Request for public hearing to establish 2004
fishing requirements
19. Summer Flounder:
Request for public hearing to establish 2004 recreational fishing
requirements
20. Consideration
of the 2004 Oyster Restoration Program and approval of the procurement
procedures.
21. Violations of
Mandatory Reporting Requirements.
22. REPEAT OFFENDER
PAGE 2 ITEMS (Projects over $50,000
with no
objections and with staff recommendation for approval)
2A. CITY OF
HARRISONBURG, #03-2438, requests authorization to install a raw
water intake, including a buried intake pipe and submerged intake
screens, approximately 140 feet into the South Fork of the Shenandoah
River in Rockingham County, and to remove the remnants of the
McGaheysville Dam, located approximately 1,500 feet upstream.
Both the intake installation and dam removal will require the
construction of temporary causeways for access into the river.
2B. PRINCE WILLIAM
FOREST PARK, #03-1149, requests authorization to install, by
open-trench method, a 12-inch diameter ductile iron waterline under the
South Fork of Quantico Creek in two locations, 50 linear feet at Scenic
Drive and 62 feet at Mawavi Road, and to stabilize the stream banks at
the construction impact locations with a maximum of 24 linear feet of
riprap per location, within Prince William Forest Park in Prince
William County. Staff recommends standard instream construction
conditions.
2C. U. S. ARMY CORPS
OF ENGINEERS, #03-1365, requests authorization to maintenance
dredge up to 3 million cubic yards of State-owned subaqueous bottom per
year from shoaled areas between Milepost 69 to Milepost 27 within the
James River in the Counties of James City, Isle of Wight, Surry and
Charles City. The dredged material will be placed in overboard
disposal sites adjacent to the dredge areas. Recommend approval
with the following conditions:
2D. LYON'S SHIPYARD,
#99-1789, requests, as a modification to a previously issued
permit, 59,900 cubic yards of additional dredging to create a 332-foot
long by 108-foot long basin to provide maximum depths of -42 feet below
mean low water to accommodate the a new drydock and install three (3)
new mooring dolphins adjacent to their property situated along the
Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk. Dredged
materials will be transported to the Craney Island Disposal
Facility. Staff recommends a royalty of $0.45 per cubic yard for
dredging of new material.
2E. U. S. DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION, #98-1326, requests authorization to modify
their existing permit to construct a 10-foot by 20-foot floating pier
adjacent to a previously authorized concrete pier at the James River
Reserve Fleet Facility within Skiffes Creek at Fort Eustis in the City
of Newport News.
2F. CITY OF
CHESAPEAKE, #98-1015, requests authorization to construct a
450-foot long by 80-foot wide pile supported roadway bridge with 60
linear feet of associated riprap scour protection over New Mill Creek,
and install a stormwater culvert with wingwalls and riprap scour
protection aprons, associated with the construction of the expansion of
Cedar Road in the City of Chesapeake.
2G. CSX
TRANSPORTATION, #03-1647, requests authorization to dredge a
1,496-foot long by 210-foot wide construction access channel with
maximum depths of up to minus seven (-7) below MLW, install channel
fenders, build a temporary construction access pier and construct a
1,750 feet long by 50.5 feet wide open-pile railroad bridge parallel to
an existing span crossing Quantico Creek in Prince William
County. Staff recommends approval with the condition that the
applicant compensate for SAV impacts by planting two (2) acres of SAV
as mitigation for the loss of 1.7 acres of SAV. In the event of
mitigation failure, the applicant has agreed to make a donation to the
Commission's Marine Habitat and Waterways Improvement Fund in the
amount of $100,000 should two successive test plots fail or $50,000
should the two-acre site fail after planting. Staff also
recommends that no dredging occur between March 15 and June 30 to
protect anadromous fish during spawning.
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.
