1. MINUTES of previous meeting.
** APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
2. PERMITS (Projects over
$50,000 with
noobjections and with staff recommendation for approval.)
3. CLOSED SESSION.
4. DANIEL R. NEWTON,
#03-1389. Commission review of the July 24, 2003, decision
of the Accomack County Wetlands Board to approve the filling 6,000
square feet of vegetated wetlands along Chesconessex Creek in the
Schooner Bay area of Accomack County. Continued from the October
28, 2003 Commission Meeting.
5. JACK KISE,
#03-1859. Commission review of the October 1, 2003,
decision of the Portsmouth Wetlands Board to approve work of unknown
dimensions in wetlands on property situated along the Western Branch of
the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth.
6. JAMES W. WYNE, ET
AL, #03-1113, requests authorization to dredge 748 cubic yards
of subaqueous material to create a 600-foot long by 33-foot wide
channel with maximum depths of minus six (-6) feet at mean low water
into Ewell's Prong of White House Creek in Lancaster County. The
sandy material will be removed by clamshell and transported to a
previously approved upland site off Route 354 in Bertrand. Two
nearby residents protest the project.
7. ARMY CORPS OF
ENGINEERS, #03-0623, requests authorization to hydraulically
place approximately 25,000 cubic yards of sandy dredge material
generated from the Queens Creek Federal Project Channel along the
western and southern shorelines of Hills Bay, adjacent to Queens Creek
in Mathews County. The project is protested by an adjoining
property owner.
8. ARMY CORPS OF
ENGINEERS, #02-0552, requests a modification of their previously
issued permit to allow disposal of dredged materials at the Wolf Trap
Overboard Placement Area located in the Chesapeake Bay in Mathews
County through December 31st.
9. MID-ATLANTIC
HOLDINGS, #03-1107, requests authorization to construct a
372-foot long by 8-foot wide open-pile pier with twelve (12) 10-foot
long by 3-foot wide finger piers, 56 associated mooring piles and a
16-foot by 20-foot deck area to create a 24-slip community facility
situated along Queen's Creek in York County. Recommend a royalty
of $3,656.00 for encroachment over of 3,656 square feet of State-owned
submerged lands at a rate of $1.00 per square foot.
10. JOAN T. KARTER,
#03-1105, requests after-the-fact authorization to retain a
16-foot by 16-foot two-story dock house on a 22-foot by 22-foot
open-pile platform situated adjacent to her property along Chincoteague
Channel in the Town of Chincoteague, Accomack County.
11. PUBLIC COMMENTS
12. Striped Bass: request for public
hearing to consider proposals for the 2004 season.
13. Recommendations of the
Recreational Fishing Advisory Board.
PAGE 2 ITEMS (Projects over $50,000
with no
objections and with staff recommendation for approval)
2A. COLONNA YACHTS,
#98-2040, requests reactivation and extension of a
previously authorized project to replace and backfill a 430-foot long
section of a timber bulkhead with steel sheet-pile bulkheading, 205
feet of which may extend a maximum of two(2) feet channelward of the
existing bulkhead and 225 feet of which may extend a maximum of three
(3) feet channelward of the existing bulkhead, adjacent to the facility
situated along the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk.
2B. VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, #03-1612, requests authorization
to construct four-lane bridges over Thorofare Creek, the Pamunkey
River, West Point Creek and the Mattaponi River adjacent to the
existing Route 33 Bridges, to have 55 foot vertical clearance above the
rivers; construct a temporary construction trestle; install two (2)
mooring buoys in the Pamunkey River and one (1) mooring in the
Mattaponi River in the Counties of New Kent, King William, King and
Queen and the Town of West Point.
2C. VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, #00-0899, requests a three- year
extension of their permit to construct the Route 164/Route 58 Pinner's
Point Interchange project in the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River
in Portsmouth. The access dredging is complete and the extension
will allow the remainder of the 2,500-foot long by 120-foot wide
extension of the West Norfolk Bridge to be completed. Recommend
approval with a new expiration date of February 27, 2007 and with all
terms and conditions of the original permit to remain in effect.
2D. SALEM STONE
CORPORATION, #96-0236, requests a two-year extension of their
permit to relocate 2,200 linear feet of Little Reed Island Creek
adjacent to their quarry near High Rocks in Wythe County.
Recommend approval with a new expiration date of January 5, 2006 and
with all terms and conditions of the original permit to remain in
effect.
FISHERY AGENDA ITEMS WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION AT APPROXIMATELY 12:00 NOON AND WILL BE FOLLOWED WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE HABITAT PERMIT CASES.
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