7 Feb 2023

NAO-2022-02783 (Rapidan Mill Mitigation Bank, Orange County, Virginia)

Expiration date: 3/6/2023

Ecotone, LLC propose to construct a compensatory mitigation bank in Orange County, VA by removing the Rapidan Mill Dam. Public comments should be received by the close of business on March 6, 2023. 

1 Aug 2017

NAO-2016-0633

Expiration date: 9/2/2017

The proposed 110-acre Montebello Mitigation Bank is located on a 680-acre tract on Montebello Road in Orange County, VA. The Bank site is located along the headwaters of the Rapidan River and several tributaries to the Rapidan River. The Sponsor plans to reestablish streambanks and enhance the natural, wider riparian corridor to 200-feet in width along 6,078 linear feet of perennial and intermittent tributaries and restoration, enhancement and preservation of 7.27 acres of wetlands within the bank site. The purpose is to provide off-site compensatory mitigation for projects that result in unavoidable impacts to streams and wetland loss in waters of the United States within the Rapidan – Upper Rappahannock HUC 02080103 watershed and a portion of Lower Rappahannock River Basin HUC 02080104.

19 Nov 2014

NAO-2012-00676

Expiration date: 12/19/2014

Branch Highways, in consultation with VDOT, is proposing to complete the final phase of a three-part expansion on Route 3 from the Orange County line to the Route 3/Route 522 intersection. The applicant is proposing to widen the two-lane road to a four-lane divided highway. The purpose of the widening project is to improve traffic safety along the heavily traveled corridor between the city of Fredericksburg and the town of Culpeper. Public comment period ends Dec. 19, 2014.