20180641 Ver 1_DCM Fisheries Resource Specialist Comments_20180530

ROY COOPER
Governor
RECEIVED MICHAEL S. REGAN
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ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY WARD
May 2, 2018
MEMORANDUM
TO: Shane Staples, Fisheries Resource Specialist
Division of Coastal Management, WaRO
FROM: Doug Huggett, Major Permits Coordinator
c/o Gregg Bodnar, Assistant Major Permits Coordinator
Division of Coastal Management
SUBJECT: CAMA/DREDGE & FILL Permit Application Review
Applicant: Bill Belter
Project Location: 47382 Rocky Rollinson Road in Dare County
Proposed Project: Construct a pier with platform, an elevated wooden bridge, a covered
platform, nursery building, storage/packaging building and gravel
drive for an oyster hatchery adjacent to the Pamilco Sound.
Please indicate below your agency's position or viewpoint on the proposed project and return this
form by 05/23/18 to 400 Commerce Avenue Morehead City, NC 28557 (fax: [phone]).
If you have any questions regarding the proposed project, please contact Cynthia Rountree at (252)
264-3901. When appropriate, in-depth comments with supporting data are requested.
REPLY: This agency has no objection to the project as proposed.
90 This agency has no comment on the proposed project/S Ire-
Thisagency approves of the project only if the recommended changes are
incorporated. See attached.
This agency objects to the project for reasons described in the attached
comments.
SIGNED' DATE
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State of North Carolina I Environmental Quality I Coastal Management
401 S. Griffin St., Ste 300 1 Elisabeth City, NC 27909
252-264-39011252-331-2951 [fax]

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MEMORANDUM:
TO: Gregg Bodnar, Assistant Major Permits Coordinator
FROM: Shane Staples, DCM Fisheries Resource Specialist
SUBJECT: Bill Belter
DATE: 5/30/18
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A North Carolina Division of Coastal Management (DCM) Fisheries Resource Specialist has reviewed
the subject permit application for proposed actions that impact fish and fish habitats. The applicant
proposes to construct an oyster hatchery and associated infrastructure adjacent to the Pamlico Sound at
47382 Rocky Rollinson Road in Buxton, NC. The project includes a 160'x 6' pier terminating in 12' x
32' L -head platform with 4 slips, a 53' x 6' elevated walkway over wetlands leading to a 16' x 32'
covered platform on high ground with nursery tanks, an 86' x 10' gravel driveway and turnaround on high
ground, a 250' x 10.5' elevated bridge over coastal wetlands to access the pier and covered platform, as
well as a storage and packing building on uplands outside of the AEC.
DCM fisheries and DWR conducted a site visit and SAV survey on 10/5/17 and dense beds of Ruppia
maritima were found in the project area but also identified an area where little to no SAV (submerged
aquatic vegetation). Recommendations for avoidance and minimization of shading impacts as well as
potential prop scaring from boating access have been incorporated into the project plan. Additionally,
concerns addressed in the scoping meeting over fill of coastal wetlands have been addressed by the
bridging of coastal wetlands in the project application. Since recommendations and concerns have been
address in the project application DCM fisheries does not believe this project would have significant
adverse impacts to fisheries resources as proposed. However, due to the dense beds of SAV observed
waterward of the proposed L -head platform the project should have a condition that no future dredging
should occur at the project as such a request would constitute new dredging in SAV and would have a
significant impact on fisheries habitat in the area.
Contact Shane Staples at [phone] or shane.sta llees(Anedenr.gov with further questions or
concerns.
State of North Carolina I. Ernfronmentalquality I Coastal Management
Washington Office 1943 Washington Square Mall I Washington, North Carolina 27889
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