** CALL TO ORDER
** INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
** APPROVAL OF AGENDA
1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - June 18, 2002 and July 11, 2002
2. PERMITS (Projects over $50,000 with no
objections and with staff recommendation for approval).
3. LEE ANDERSON, #99-2156, requested authorization to install 60
linear feet and bulkhead and 58 linear feet of return walls on his property
situated along the Chesapeake Bay in the City of Hampton. Coastal Primary Sand
Dune and Beach Permit required.
4. REGATTA POINT YACHT CLUB, #01-2177, requests authorization to
install fuel pumps and associated fuel lines to a previously authorized floating
pier at their marina facility located near the mouth of Broad Creek in Middlesex
County. The project is protested by several nearby property owners.
5. NORTHWEST BRANCH OF TANNERS CREEK, L.L.C., #02-0089, requests authorization to dredge, by clamshell method, 8,620 cubic yards of State-owned subaqueous bottom in a 2,900-foot long by 30-foot wide channel with a 950-foot long by 30-foot wide spur channel to maximum depths of minus four (-4) feet at mean low water adjacent to their property situated along the Northwest Branch of Tanners Creek in the City of Norfolk. The material will be placed at Craney Island. The project is protested by an adjoining property owner and a concerned citizen.
6. E. L. BOYCE, #02-0952, requests authorization to extend an existing pier 40 feet channelward and construct a 42-foot by 18-foot open-sided boathouse at the channelward end of the pier situated along Elmington Creek in Gloucester County. The project is protested by an adjacent property owner.7. AMHERST CO. RECREATION AND PARKS DEPARTMENT, #01-1753, requests authorization to convert two existing, abandoned Virginia Blue Ridge Railway bridges which span the Tye River and the Piney River into foot bridges. The crossings are being retrofitted as part of a seven-mile trail through portions of Amherst and Nelson Counties. The Tye River crossing is protested by an adjacent property owner.
8. DONNA W. HOWLETT, #02-1184, requests authorization to install up to 50 linear feet of stone riprap revetment landward of mean low water at her property situated along Wathall Channel of the Appomattox River in Chesterfield County. Wetlands Permit required.
9. WAYNE K. TAYLOR, #01-2142. Restoration Hearing
related to placement of 150 feet of concrete panel bulkhead 7-10 feet
channelward of an existing metal sheet bulkhead and the backfilling of the area
between the two bulkheads within the intertidal area of the applicants property
situated along the Appomattox River in Prince George County.
10. TABBS CREEK CIVIC ASSOCIATION, #95-1672, requests an after-the-fact
permit modification to dredge an additional 48 cubic yards of State-owned
subaqueous material and install two (2) temporary mooring piles in order to
prepare an unauthorized off-load area associated with a current maintenance
dredging permit for a channel into the mouth of Tabbs Creek in Lancaster County.
12. PUBLIC COMMENTS
13. RECOMMENDATIONS of the Recreational Fishing Advisory Board and the Commercial Fishing Advisory Board.
14. PUBLIC HEARING: Proposed amendments to Regulation 4 VAC 20-610-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Commercial Fishing and Mandatory Harvest Reporting," requiring purse seine vessels to submit Captain's Daily Fishing Reports.
15. PUBLIC HEARING: Proposed amendments to Regulation 4 VAC 20-670-30 clarifying provisions pertaining to recreational crabbing.
** DATE OF NEXT COMMISSION MEETING: AUGUST 27, 2002
** ADJOURNMENT
PAGE 2 ITEMS (Projects over $50,000 with no
objections and with staff recommendation for approval)
2A. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY, #02-1079, requests
authorization to construct a 120-foot by 39-foot clear span bridge across
McHenry Creek to facilitate realignment of State Route 745 in Washington County.
Recommend a royalty in the amount of $612.00 for the encroachment over 2,040
square feet of State-owned subaqueous land at a rate of $0.30 per square foot.
2B. U.S ARMY CORPS. OF ENGINEERS, #01-1614, requests a modification to their
existing permit to dredge an additional 2000 cubic yards of sandy material from
the Federal navigation channel at the mouth of the Coan River in Northumberland
County. The Permittee has determined from a more recent bathymetric survey that
the additional material will need to be dredged from channel area to achieve the
desired depth. The additional sandy material will be hydraulically pumped on the
previously permitted Public Ground #78 as part of the oyster replenishment
program.
2C. JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION, #02-0920, requests authorization to
maintenance dredge up to 38,800 cubic yards of State-owned subaqueous material
from an access channel to the Jamestown Settlement within the James River in
James City County. All dredge spoil to be placed in an adjacent, previously
used, dredge disposal site within the James River. Recommend a time of year
restriction from March 15 through June 30 of each year to protect anadromous
fish.
2D. MICHAEL BOGESE, JR., #02-0804, requests authorization to stabilize
approximately 4,400 linear feet of eroding shoreline through the installation of
a series of breakwaters and sills, and associated beach nourishment and to
construct a 12-foot by 38-foot concrete boat ramp at the applicant's property
situated along the James River in Charles City County. The proposed sills will
impact 30,660 square feet of State-owned subaqueous lands; the breakwaters will
impact 10,710 square feet of State-owned subaqueous lands; the beach nourishment
(2,648 cubic yards) will impact 71,500 square feet of State-owned subaqueous
lands; and the boat ramp will impact 240 square feet of State-owned subaqueous
lands. Recommend approval with a proposed royalty of $3,575.00 for the beach
nourishment impacting 71,500 square feet of State-owned subaqueous lands at a
rate of $0.05 per square foot.
2E. VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, #00-2103, requests a permit
modification to install a single, temporary, commercial mooring buoy, located at
36° 51' 23.40 North Latitude and 76° 20' 22.57"West Longitude in the
Western Branch of the Elizabeth River to provide construction barge tie off for
the Route 164 Pinners Point Interchange Bridge project. Recommend approval
provided the buoy is marked in accordance with U. S. Coast Guard requirements.
All other terms and conditions of the original permit are to remain in effect.
2F. WATERMAN'S MUSEUM, #02-0503, requests authorization
to replace an existing pier with a 215-foot long by 8-foot wide open-pile
commercial pier with a 20-foot long by 36-foot wide dock head and a 114-foot
long by 8-foot wide finger pier adjacent to their property situated along the
York River in York County.
2G. YORK RIVER YACHT HAVEN, #02-0978, requests authorization to renovate
piers 2, 3, 4, and 5 located on the south and east sides of the marina located
along Sarah Creek in Gloucester County. Proposed renovations include the removal
of the old pier pilings and decking and replacement with floating piers. The new
floating piers are also proposed to include shellfish aquaculture upweller
units. The new piers are proposed to be slightly re-oriented, but the
channelward encroachment is proposed to be similar to that which has previously
been permitted. The renovation would result in the net reduction of 49 slips.
Recommend approval with the assessment of an annual royalty of $2,294.30
for the encroachment associated with piers 3, 4, and a portion of pier 5 over
45,886 square feet of State-owned submerged land at an annual rate of $0.05 per
square foot.
2H. TOWN OF CHINCOTEAGUE, #02-1030, requests authorization to construct and backfill 384 linear feet of vinyl replacement bulkhead a maximum of two (2) feet channelward of a deteriorating bulkhead adjacent to Town property along Chincoteague Channel, 100 yards north of the bridge in the Town of Chincoteague.
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