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. RAPPAHANNOCK
RIVER PRESERVATION SOCIETY, #03-1649, requests authorization to
install a 2,800-foot long by 1,000-foot wide concrete debris oyster
reef in the James River near the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge
Tunnel in Newport News.
5. JOSEPH GUBELI,
III, #02-2155, requests authorization to construct a private,
noncommercial pier extending 300 feet channelward of mean high water
with an 18-foot by 32-foot open-sided boathouse adjacent to his
property situated along the Piankatank River in Gloucester
County. The project is protested by the adjoining property owners.
6. VULCAN
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, LP, #03-2110, requests authorization to
construct and backfill a 30-foot by 40-foot pre-cast piling bulkhead to
replace an existing truck body hopper; replace 12 mooring dolphins; and
to add 634 linear feet of riprap revetment along the James River
shoreline at their Richmond Quarry and Lower Dock facilities in the
City of Richmond. Both subaqueous and wetlands permits are
required. The project is protested by the City of Richmond.
7. ARMY CORPS OF
ENGINEERS, #04-0269, requests authorization to hydraulically
place up to 100,000 cubic yards of dredged material, per dredge cycle,
from the Swash Bay Federal Navigation Channel in Accomack County, on a
previously used 23-acre site in Swash Bay involving State-owned
non-vegetated wetlands and submerged lands. Both wetlands and
subaqueous permits are required.
8. DON WILLIAMS,
#03-2368, requests after-the-fact authorization to retain a
48-foot long by 3-foot wide storage shed and an 8-foot by 8-foot
rooftop cupola at his property situated along Willoughby Bay in Norfolk.
9. JULES A. FREEMAN
REVOCABLE TRUST, #04-0545, requests after-the-fact authorization
to retain 76 linear feet of timber bulkhead and to install an
additional 82 linear feet of bulkhead adjacent to their property
situated along Willoughby Bay in Norfolk.
10. PUBLIC COMMENTS
11. Public Hearing:
Pertaining to crab regulations 4VAC20-270,370,670,750, and 1040 to
establish 2004 crab harvest rules.
12. Spiny Dogfish:
Request for emergency regulation to adjust 2004 trip limits.
2A. HONEYWELL
INTERNATIONAL, INC., #04-0314, requests authorization to install
and backfill up to 140 linear feet of steel sheetpile bulkhead aligned
up to two (2) feet channelward of an existing deteriorated bulkhead at
the Honeywell Plant river pumphouse intake along the James River in the
City of Hopewell. Recommend a royalty of $560.00 for the
encroachment over 280 square feet of State-owned subaqueous bottomland
at a rate of $2.00 per square foot.
2B. DEPARTMENT OF
THE ARMY, #04-0071, requests authorization to install, on an
annual basis, and up to 12 times per year, temporary floating
causeways that will extend approximately 1,200 feet into the James
River, which will necessitate the excavation of both intertidal and
subaqueous lands (up to 592 cubic yards per exercise) to facilitate the
causeway installation as part of military training along the Anzio
Beach area of the U. S. Army Transportation Center, Fort Eustis in the
City of Newport News. The excavated area will be restored
to original contours after each exercise.
2C. ROUTE 28
CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENTS, INC., #04-0021, requests authorization to
remove the existing bridge over Beaverdam Run, a tributary of Broad
Run, and construct a new four-lane bridge in its place in Loudoun
County. The new bridge will be 141 feet wide and span a maximum
length of 60 feet of water, precluding the necessity of in-stream
piers, and remain approximately 20 feet above ordinary high
water. An overhead electrical line will cross a minimum of 15
feet above ordinary high water and two underground utilities, a fiber
optic line and a gas line, will be installed by directional drilling a
minimum of five (5) feet below the streambed. Access into the
stream may be necessary to remove the sections of the existing
bridge.
2D. BLUE RIDGE
PASSAGE RESORT, #01-2171, requests authorization to reconstruct
the Cockram Mill Dam to be 20 feet high by 150-feet long to create a
7.02 acre impoundment known as Cockram Millpond located on the Dan
River at Meadows of Dan in Patrick County. Recommend approval
with standard instream conditions and time-of-year restrictions from
October 31 - May 15 to protect Brown and Rainbow Trout spawning.
Recommend a royalty of $2,000.00 for the filling of 1,000 square feet
of State-owned bottom at a rate of $2.00 per square foot.
2E. GLOUCESTER BANKS
ASSOC., #03-2548, requests authorization to rebuild their
600-foot community pier with the addition of a 165-foot by 5-foot lower
platform and to construct two (2) 100-foot by 16-foot riprap
breakwaters with 1500 cubic yards of sand, placed landward of the
breakwaters, as beach nourishment adjacent to their property situated
along the York River in Gloucester County. Staff recommends
approval with a condition that the material for the beach nourishment
must be comprised of at least 90 percent sand and with the assessment
of a royalty of $750.00 for the encroachment of the beach nourishment
on 15,000 square feet of state-owned submerged land at a rate of $0.05
per square foot.
2F. MARINE RESOURCES
COMMISSION, #03-2585. The Fisheries Management Division
requests authorization to construct an intertidal oyster reef (E-11)
measuring 400 feet long by 40 feet wide with maximum heights of
approximately 6 feet off the bottom, constructed of oyster and clam
shell, with endpoints at 36° 47' 55" N Latitude 76° 17' 54" W
Longitude and 37° 47' 54" N Latitude and 76° 17' 57" W
Longitude located in Paradise Creek in Portsmouth. The proposed
reef is to be marked in accordance with U.S. Coast Guard requirements.
2G. MARINE RESOURCES
COMMISSION, #03-2586. The Fisheries Management Division
requests authorization to construct an intertidal oyster reef (E-12)
measuring 150 feet long by 40 feet wide with maximum heights of
approximately 6 feet off the bottom, constructed of oyster and clam
shell, with endpoints at 36° 48' 36" N Latitude 76° 17' 16" W
Longitude and 36° 48' 37" N Latitude 76° 17' 16" W Longitude
located in Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake.
The proposed reef is to be marked in accordance with U.S. Coast Guard
requirements.
2H. MARINE RESOURCES
COMMISSION, #03-2587. The Fisheries Management Division
requests authorization to construct an intertidal oyster reef
(E-13) measuring 400 feet long by 60 feet wide with maximum heights of
approximately 6 feet off the bottom, constructed of oyster and clam
shell, with endpoints at 36° 44' 43" N Latitude 76° 17' 54" W
Longitude and 36° 44' 45" N Latitude and 76° 17' 54" W
Longitude located in Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in
Chesapeake. The proposed reef is to be marked in accordance with
U.S. Coast Guard requirements.
2I. DEPARTMENT OF
THE NAVY, #03-1659, requests authorization to install 16 mooring
piles and construct a dual-slip boathouse, boat ramp, new bulkhead, and
dredge to -22 feet below mean low water adjacent to property situated
along the Elizabeth River in Norfolk.
2J. CITY OF NORFOLK,
#04-0356, requests authorization to nourish 1300 linear feet of
shoreline from 14th Street to Ocean View Park. The beach will
extend a maximum of 150 feet channelward of mean low water adjacent to
the property situated along the Chesapeake Bay.
2K. MARINE RESOURCES
COMMISSION, #97-1807. The Fisheries Management Division
requests reactivation and extension of a previously issued and modified
permit to construct, a circular, artificial reef that maintains a
12-foot clearance between the reef structures and mean low water in
conjunction with a 72-acre hard clam broodstock sanctuary site within a
1,000-foot radius around Newport News Middle Ground Light in Hampton
Roads.
2L. MARINE RESOURCES
COMMISSION, #00-1837. The Fisheries Management Division
requests reactivation and extension of a previously issued permit to
construct a square artificial fishing reef centered at 37º 14'24"'
N Latitude and 76º 13' 45" W Longitude, that maintains a 15-foot
clearance between the reef structures and mean low water, approximately
7.35 miles ENE of Tue Point.
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.
