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. WILLIAM
McDONOUGH, #02-1839. Restoration hearing to consider the
unauthorized construction of 83 linear feet of replacement vinyl
bulkhead aligned up to five and one-half (5.5) feet channelward of an
existing bulkhead and three and one-half (3.5) feet farther than that
permitted at his property situated along Chincoteague Channel.
The VMRC permit authorized the construction of a 64-foot long vinyl
replacement bulkhead, aligned a maximum of two (2) feet channelward of
the deteriorating bulkhead.
5. NORFOLK YACHT AND
COUNTRY CLUB, #03-2469, requests authorization to construct a
51-foot long by 15-foot wide open-pile commercial pier with a 78-foot
by 78-foot pier head to support a 58-foot by 58-foot 8,668 square
foot two-story building over State-owned subaqueous bottom for use as a
sailing center at their property situated along the Lafayette River in
Norfolk.
6. STAFFORD COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, #99-2064, requests authorization to
install a 40 mgd water intake structure that will impact up to 3,750
square feet of State-owned subaqueous bottomland within the
Rappahannock River in Stafford County.
7. TOWN OF COLONIAL
BEACH, ET AL, #02-1950, requests after-the-fact
authorization to retain an open-pile pier with a 27-foot by 10-foot
L-head, extending 35 feet channelward of mean high water adjacent to
Monroe Bay for the exclusive private, noncommercial use of the property
owners of 912 Monroe Bay Avenue in the Town of Colonial Beach.
8. PUBLIC COMMENTS
9. PUBLIC HEARING:
Request to incorporate emergency amendments that adjusted 2004 trip
limits for spiny dogfish into Regulation 4 VAC 20-490-10 et seq.
10. Additional
discussion and recommendations from the CMAC on replacing the
current ban on possessing dark-colored (late-stage) sponge crabs with a
short-term ban on the possession of any sponge crabs. A public hearing
was held last month.
11. DISCUSSION:
Review of FMAC recommendations on allowing exceptions to limited
fisheries.
12. Recommendations
of the Recreational Fishing Advisory Board.
2A. ARMY CORPS OF
ENGINEERS, #04-0038, requests authorization to hydraulically
place approximately 7,500 cubic yards of sandy dredged material, per
dredge cycle, from the Narrows channel in Virginia Beach, on a
previously used site along 1,000 linear feet of the First Landing
Seashore State Park shoreline in Virginia Beach.
2B. NORFOLK SOUTHERN
RAILWAY, #04-0333, requests authorization to reconstruct four
(4) railroad trestle crossings of the North Fork Clinch River to
increase stream channel openings and eliminate track washouts near the
community of Jasper in Lee County. Recommend standard instream
permit conditions and an encroachment royalty of $448.00 for the
encroachment over 448 square feet of State-owned subaqueous land at a
rate of $1.00 per square foot.
2C. HENRY COUNTY
PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY, #03-2332, requests authorization to
install a sanitary sewer line beneath Blackberry Creek and its
tributaries at 39 locations in Henry County. Recommend our
standard instream construction conditions.
2D. VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, #03-1612, requests authorization
to modify an existing permit to bury 220 feet of electric cables and a
2-inch waterline beneath the Pamunkey River between the proposed
opening bridge piers; replace two (2) proposed mooring buoys with four
(4) 7-pile mooring dolphins located in the Pamunkey River and replace
one (1) proposed mooring buoy with four (4) 7-pile mooring dolphins
located in the Mattaponi River; remove an existing culvert and restore
West Point Creek to existing contours; bury a 12-inch water main and a
20-inch sewer force main beneath West Point Creek and relocate an
existing submerged sewer outfall to be located 215 feet from the
shoreline in the Mattaponi River.
2E. COUNTY OF
ALLEGHANY, #04-0960, requests authorization to install, by
trenching, a new 120 foot long sewer force main crossing under the
Jackson River in Alleghany County. Recommends our standard
instream construction conditions.
2F. CITY OF NORFOLK,
#04-0356, request authorization to modify their previously
Commission authorized permit to include the dredging of 550,000 cubic
yards of State-owned submerged lands from the Thimble Shoals Federal
Navigation Channel to maximum depths of -58 feet below mean low water
for the purposes of obtaining material for beach nourishment purposes
in Norfolk. Recommend a post dredge bathymetric survey be
required.
2G. VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, #00-0899, requests a modification
to an existing permit to authorize the temporary placement of 140
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) seed deployment buoys on 25-foot
centers within a previously authorized two-acre mitigation area in
Judith Sound in Northumberland County. The buoys (i.e. crab pot
floats) will be in place for a maximum of four (4) weeks and are
intended to satisfy the Department of Environmental Quality and Army
Corps of Engineers SAV compensation requirements associated with the
Woodrow Wilson Bridge replacement project in the City of Alexandria.
2H. HENRICO COUNTY
DIVISION OF RECREATION AND PARKS, #03-2572, requests
authorization to install a 36-inch by 30-foot long concrete culvert,
two pedestrian bridges, and to remove three derelict vessels at an
unnamed tributary of, and along the James River, at Osborne Park in
Henrico County. Staff recommends a time-of-year restriction on
any work within the James River between February 15 through June 30 to
protect anadromous fish species.
2I. VIRGINIA BEACH
FISHING PIER, #00-2079, requests reactivation and extension of
their permit which authorized the construction of a 200-foot long by
21-foot wide extension to an existing commercial fishing pier situated
along the oceanfront at 15th Street in Virginia Beach.
2J. VIRGINIA
INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE, #04-1155, requests authorization to
conduct experimental submerged aquatic vegetation restoration projects
in the Piankatank River and on the seaside of the Eastern Shore in
South Bay and Cobb Bay. Four-foot long mesh bags, containing
eelgrass reproductive shoots, will be tied to anchored floats at a
density of approximately 30 bags per acre (about 33 feet apart) and
located in waters less than three (3) feet deep at mean low
water. The bags will be deployed at three (3) sites in the
Piankatank River totaling 30 acres. Two (2) sites are along the
southern shoreline between Queens Creek and Burtons Point and between
Iron Point and Cobbs Creek in Mathews County. A third Piankatank
River site is located on the northern shore between Healy Creek and
Fishing Bay in Middlesex County. A similar number of bags will be
deployed on six (6) five-acre areas in South Bay and Cobbs Bay on the
Seaside of the Eastern Shore in Northampton County. The Burton's
Pointe site will be located on additional Public Ground (§
28.2-642). The Eastern Shore sites will be located on Public
Ground 13 and 26 and within an area set aside by the Commission in 2003
for VIMS' SAV restoration activities. The bags and associated
anchored floats are to be deployed approximately June 1 and will remain
in the water between three (3) and four (4) weeks to allow for the
seeds to be released from the shoots. Recommend approval pending
expiration of the public comment period on June 1, 2004.
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.