AGENDA July 28, 2020

** 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. TREAVOR A. GREEN, #20-0363 Review of the Gloucester County Wetland Board's June 10, 2020, decision to approve the filling of 500 square feet of vegetated wetlands and 25 square feet of non-vegetated wetlands as part of a bulkhead replacement project along Sarah's Creek at Tax Map #51CC(1)-11.

6. CITY OF SALEM, #19-1802 Requests authorization to install two (2) temporary cofferdams within the Roanoke River to provide access for maintenance activities of the Mill Lane Roadway Bridge in the City of Salem. The project is protested by adjacent property owners.

7. BRG LITTLE CREEK, LLC, #20-0226 Requests authorization to retain and improve a previously constructed 33-foot by 30-foot enclosed open-pile platform to be used for restaurant activities, and to install a 16-foot by 30-foot oyster reef below the platform along Little Creek at 4707 Pretty Lake Avenue in the City of Norfolk.

8. OSCAR HARRELL, #19-0182 Requests authorization to construct a private open-pile pier with a 36-foot by 18-foot open-sided boathouse and a 20-foot by 20-foot open-sided gazebo roof, at property (5232 Ivey Lane) situated along the York River in James City County. The project is protested by two (2) adjacent property owners.

9. JANE PAWELSKI, Oyster Planting Ground Application #2016-244 Requests authorization to lease one (1) acre of oyster planting ground in Chincoteague Bay, Town of Chincoteague in Accomack County. The project is protested by an adjacent property owner.

10. ROBERT ROWE, Oyster Planting Ground Application #2018-002 Requests authorization to lease approximately six (6) acres of oyster planting ground in the East River in Mathews County. The project is protested by an adjacent property owner.

11. PUBLIC COMMENTS

12. PUBLIC HEARING Proposal to amend Chapter 4 VAC 20-280-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Speckled Trout and Red Drum" to modify seafood buyer reporting requirements for purchases of speckled trout during the period of August 1 through November 30 of each year.

13. PUBLIC HEARING Proposal to amend Chapter 4 VAC 20-252-10 et seq., "Pertaining to the Taking of Striped Bass" to require the use of non-offset, non-stainless steel circle hooks when fishing for striped bass recreationally with bait, to clarify that the captain or operator of any recreational boat or vessel shall be responsible for any minimum or maximum size limits, and to repeal section 4VAC 20-252-115 Exemptions from size limits and closed fishing seasons for recreational striped bass fishing tournaments.

14. PUBLIC HEARING Proposal to amend Chapter 4 VAC 20-1090-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Licensing Requirements and License Fees" to establish a license fee for the new Commercial Electrofishing License.

15. REQUEST FOR AN EMERGENCY AMENDMENT Proposal to amend Chapter 4 VAC 20-540-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Spanish Mackerel and King Mackerel," to establish a 500 pound daily per vessel bycatch provision in state waters for the Spanish mackerel commercial fishery to coincide with federal waters closures as announced by the National Marine Fisheries Service.

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A. RRHOLDCO, LLC, #20-0385 Requests authorization to replace an existing 5-foot wide by 70-foot long tending pier and replace existing floating piers consisting of 60 wet slips at Rivers Rest Marina (9100 Wilcox Neck Road) along the Chickahominy River in Charles City County. Staff recommends approval with an encroachment royalty in the amount of $200.00 for the encroachment of the tending pier over 200 square feet of subaqueous bottom at a rate of $1.00 per square foot.

B. JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, #20-0522 Requests authorization to construct approximately 590 linear feet of steel sheet pile bulkhead no more than two (2) feet channelward of an existing, failing bulkhead, and replace existing finger pier piles as necessary at the Third Port Facility on Fort Eustis adjacent to Skiffes Creek in the City of Newport News.

C. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, #20-0525 Requests authorization to place approximately 110,000 cubic yards of sandy dredge material per dredge cycle, from the maintenance dredging of the Chincoteague Inlet Federal Navigation Channel, within the previously used overboard placement site located in the Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Chincoteague Inlet in Accomack County. The placement site is centered at N37º 50.6514', W75º 27.2058'.

D. HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC - NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING, #20-0557 Requests authorization to add a 336-foot by 84-foot open-pile mooring standoff platform and a new mooring dolphin system to Pier 3 at Newport News Shipbuilding along the James River in the City of Newport News.

E. CITY OF HAMPTON, #20-0790 Requests authorization to construct 261 linear feet of replacement bulkhead, 230 linear feet of 10-foot wide wharf, and 74 linear feet of 4-foot wide wharf at the end of South King Street along the Hampton River in the City of Hampton.

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