29 Jan 2025

NAO-2024-02816 (USFWS - Chincoteague NWR, Chincoteague, Virginia)

Expiration date: 3/3/2025

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Beach Parking Relocation project is designed to relocate infrastructure and facilities needed to support the recreational beach including parking, access road, and facilities. The current recreational beach and parking lots have experienced severe damage over the years due to strong winds, waves, and storm surges in conjunction with high tides. Destruction of the existing recreational beach and parking lots is expected to reoccur on a regular basis in the future and more frequently. Therefore, to continue providing recreational beach access to visitors, relocation of the recreational beach is recommended. Comments should be received by the close of business on March 3, 2025.

12 Nov 2013

NAO-2005-05265/13-V1650

Expiration date: 12/13/2013

Navy Region Mid-Atlantic proposes to upgrade a section of the existing tactical vehicle trail located along the southern boundary of the Small Arms Testing and Evaluation Compound (SATEC) at Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story in Virginia Beach to create an approximately 2,000-foot roadway section that replicates an improved road surface. The purpose of the project is to upgrade the straightway section of the trail network to replicate an improved roadway layout and surface to develop more realistic scenarios that work in concert with the existing SATEC facilities. The project would impact approximately 2.25 acres of historically disturbed nontidal, emergent wetlands. The applicant proposes to provide compensatory mitigation by purchasing credits at a 1:1 ratio from the Middle Peninsula Environmental Properties Inc.’s Wetland Mitigation Bank. The comment period ends on December 13, 2013.