TENTATIVE AGENDA October 27, 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. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY, #19-1217 Requests authorization to remove two (2) 230kV overhead electric transmission circuits and associated support structures and to install, by micro-tunneling technology, two (2) 60-inch diameter steel conduits housing for two (2) 230kV electric transmission circuits a minimum 16-feet beneath 344-foot and 379-foot wide sections of Four Mile Run, including temporary impacts to tidal wetlands and State-owned subaqueous bottom from the installation of timber mat access roads, floating work platforms, and sheet pile cofferdams immediately upstream of the Route 1 bridge crossing in Arlington County and the City of Alexandria. This project requires a tidal wetlands and subaqueous permit.

6. PORTABAGO BAY HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., #20-1526 Requests authorization to install 194 linear feet of stone-filled gabion basket breakwater, with clean sand fill and wetland planting to create a living shoreline on the Rappahannock River at 29481 Goose Point Court in Caroline County. This project requires a tidal wetlands and subaqueous permit.

7. YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS, #19-1496 Requests authorization to install two (2) offshore stone breakwaters totaling approximately 676 linear feet, extend an existing breakwater approximately 30 linear feet, install a 100-foot long by 24-inch diameter stormwater outfall pipe, and nourish the area landward of the breakwaters with beach quality sand. This projects is situated along the Chesapeake Bay adjacent to the YMCA Camp in the Silver Beach area of Northampton County. The project is protested by adjacent and nearby property owners. Continued from the February 25, 2020, Commission meeting.

8. RAPPAHANNOCK WHARF, LLC, #20-0920 Requests authorization to re-develop a deteriorated commercial wharf to include removal of a failed timber bulkhead and concrete slab, installation of a 70-foot long quarry stone and rubble breakwater with associated clean sand fill and wetland plants to create a living shoreline, 452 linear feet of timber replacement bulkhead, a 16-foot wide gravel boat ramp with flanking timber jetties, a 32-foot long timber wave screen, repair of one 12-foot wide pier, replacement of two (2) other piers at 8-feet wide, and installation of 205 linear feet of quarry stone riprap revetment to create a commercial marine construction facility base of operation on Town Creek at the end of Callis Road in Lancaster County. The project is protested by an adjoining property owner and another individual in the area.

9. DEREK OWENS, #20-1009 Requests authorization to install a 5-foot wide by 148-foot long open-pile private pier with a 10-foot by 12-foot deck, attached to an existing permitted boathouse structure, along Free School Creek at 4442 School House Road in Gloucester County. The project is protested by an adjacent property owner.

10. BALLARD BROTHERS FISH AND OYSTER COMPANY INC., #20-0141 Requests authorization to place up to 1,050 floating oyster cages, within an area up to 1,650 feet by 355-feet, over existing lease #13637 within Cherrystone Creek in Northampton County. The request is protested by a nearby property owner.

11. PUBLIC COMMENTS

12. PUBLIC HEARING Proposal to amend Chapter 4 VAC 20-270-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Blue Crab Fishery" to extend the season for the hard crab pot fishery through December 19, 2020.

13. DISCUSSION Upcoming Fisheries Management Division public hearings and information for the December 2020 commission meeting.

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A. COLONNA SHIPYARD, #19-1957 Requests authorization to mechanically dredge up to 365,000 cubic yards of State-owned submerged lands to achieve a maximum depth of -48 feet and -28 feet at mean low water for the construction a 595-foot by 135-foot dry dock basin; construct a 100-foot by 27-foot concrete cap dolphin, a 260-foot by 27 foot concrete pier, and a 140- foot by 20-foot access ramp to relocate Colonna Shipyard's Dry Dock # 3 along the Eastern Brach Elizabeth River at 400 East Indian River Road, in the City of Norfolk. Dredge material will be transported by barge to the Craney Island Dredge Material Management Area. Staff recommends approval with a permit condition to conduct shellfish resource harvesting with placement on Larchmont Sanctuary reef, and a royalty of $164,250.00 for the dredging of 365,000 cubic yards of State-owned submerged lands at a rate of $0.45 per cubic yard.

B. WAGMAN HEAVY CIVIL, INC., #20-1415 Requests authorization to install temporary bridges, reconfigure the existing I-95 Southbound construction causeway, construct three (3) new traffic lanes parallel and adjacent to the I-95 northbound bridge across the Rappahannock River and construct improvements over Falls Run to provide additional capacity and facilitate construction of the I-95 Northbound Rappahannock River Crossing Project in the City of Fredericksburg and Stafford County. Recommend approval contingent on our standard instream permit conditions, a mussel survey and relocation prior to construction and an instream work time-of-year restriction of February 15 to June 30, and August 15 to September 30 of any given year, to protect anadromous fishes and freshwater mussels, unless specifically waived in writing by the Department of Wildlife Resources. Permittee shall execute a transfer of this permit to the Virginia Department of Transportation upon their acceptance of the permitted structures.

VMRC DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES; THEREFORE, IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS DUE TO A DISABILITY, PLEASE ADVISE MICHELE GUILFORD (757-247-2206) 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.