AGENDA May 28, 2024

** 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. DISCUSSION Commission review of applications to the Abandoned or Derelict Vessel Grant Program.

6. ZAPATA HAYNIE-OMEGA PROTEIN INC., #23-1783 requests after-the-fact authorization to retain a 181 linear foot replacement bulkhead constructed channelward of the previously permitted alignment. Additional work to include the construction and backfilling of a 194 linear foot replacement bulkhead and a 114-foot long by 10-foot wide replacement commercial pier section, adjacent to property situated along Cockrell Creek at 610 Menhaden Road in Northumberland County.

7. TIG ADVISORS LP, ET AL, #23-2870 requests authorization to install armor stone over two (2) existing 60-foot timber groin structures along the Potomac River at 356 Devils Wood Yard Road Northumberland County. The project is protested by a nearby waterfront property owner.

8. SHELLFISH RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER OYSTERS, LLC. #2022-2254, Requests authorization to install 300 floating oyster cages (3'x5') within the boundaries of the oyster planting ground lease area #22489 within 3 acres of the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County. The request is protested by nearby property owners.

9. PUBLIC COMMENTS

10. PUBLIC HEARING Proposal to amend Chapter 4VAC20-510-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Amberjack and Cobia", to streamline the cobia aquaculture permitting process.

PAGE 2 ITEMS

A. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, #23-2277 requests authorization to place up to 3,500,000 cubic yards of dredge spoil material, per annual dredge cycle, from the Tribell Shoal Federal Channel, Goose Hill Shoal Channel, Dancing Point - Swann Point Shoal, Jordan Point Harrison Bar Windmill Point Shoal, and City Point Shoal on adjacent previously approved and utilized open-water disposal areas in the James River in James City County, Surry County, Charles City County, Prince George County, and the City of Hopewell. Staff recommends approval of the project with a permit expiration date of May 31, 2026, and reconsideration of the project by the Commission following staff review of a sediment fate modeling study as required by the James River Federal Channel Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Commissioner and the US Army Corp of Engineers Norfolk District.

B. ALYSON SCHLOBOHM, #23-2496 requests authorization to replace an existing groin with a 48-foot long timber low profile groin, install 14 linear feet of new bulkhead return wall and construct a 6-foot by 6-foot access stair structure along the Rappahannock River shoreline at 158 Pops Lane in Essex County. The project requires a VMRC subaqueous and wetlands permit.

C. JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH, #24-0133 requests authorization to construct a timber low profile groin extending 48 feet channelward of mean high water adjacent to an existing boat ramp along the Rappahannock River at 218 Garnett Lane in Essex County. The project requires a VMRC beaches and dunes permit.

D. STEVEN WILKINSON, #24-0429 requests authorization to construct a new 105-foot long bulkhead a maximum of two (2) feet channelward of an existing, failing bulkhead and three (3) low profile timber groins extending 48 feet channelward of the bulkhead along the Piankatank River at 101 Wildwood Place in Essex County. The project requires a VMRC beaches and dunes permit.

E. BUSH PARK CAMPING RESORT LLC, #24-0233 requests authorization to replace a 1,800 square foot boat ramp in the existing footprint, remove and replace three (3) existing jetties with two (2) parallel 62-foot low profile jetties encompassing the boat ramp, construct two (2) new 6-foot by 72-foot piers along the jetties, and remove an existing pier and replace it with a new 6-foot by 423-foot community pier with 15 4-foot by 30-foot finger piers and 30 mooring piles, two (2) within each slip, along Bush Park Creek at 724 Bushy Park Road in Middlesex County.

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



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