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  • 408-NAO-2025-0035 (Safe Harbor Bluewater Marina Improvements Project )

    Expiration date: 6/6/2025

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This Section 408 request was submitted by Safe Harbor Bluewater Marina Improvements Project which includes new work and maintenance dredging and the replacement of multiple fixed piers with floating piers for safe ingress/egress to the marina and for the mooring of larger vessels at the marina along Herbert's Creek (Sunset Creek) located at 25 Marina Road, Hampton, VA. This project may alter the Hampton Creek/Herberts Creek Federal Navigation Channel. The area will be dredged to -6.5-ft MLW and -8.0-ft MLW and transported to an approved upland facility. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 6, 2025.

  • 408-NAO-2025-0031 (City of Norfolk Waterside Timber Pier Replacement Project)

    Expiration date: 6/6/2025

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This is a Section 408 request submitted by the City of Norfolk for the demolition and replacement of a portion of the Waterside Timber Pier, in the same footprint as existing structures. The pier is located behind 333 Waterside Drive in Norfolk, VA and may alter the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River portion of the Norfolk Harbor and Channels Federal Navigation Project (NHC-EBER) and Norfolk Coastal Storm Risk Management Federal Project (NCSRM). The existing pier has shown significant deterioration and is currently closed to the public. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 6, 2025.

  • 408-NAO-2024-0127 (Town of Tappahannock Captain Thomas Transient Dock Facility)

    Expiration date: 6/5/2025

    Interested parties are hereby notified that a request for permission to alter a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) federal project pursuant to Section 14 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 408 (Section 408) has been received and is under evaluation by the Norfolk District. This Section 408 Request was submitted by the Town of Tappahannock to construct a canoe/kayak launch and transient boat docking facility situated at the Captain Thomas Site on Hoskins Creek. The overall facility will also offer fuel for transient boaters, a pump-out station, bathhouse, and parking lot. The main purpose of the project is to expand transient boater access along the Rappahannock River and offer a sheltered, deep-water location that is immediately adjacent to a federally maintained navigation channel. The main dock will be a 13-foot-wide by 240-foot-long floating dock that can side moor up to (16) 26-foot-long transient vessels. The floating dock will be ADA accessible and accessed by a 6-foot by 80-foot gangway that connects to a 25-foot by 30-foot fixed timber pierhead. The pierhead will also support the fuel pump and sanitary pump-out station. The pierhead will connect to the landside with an 8-foot-wide by 72-foot-long timber walkway. Upstream from the transient boat dock is a proposed canoe/kayak launch that will be a 10-foot-wide by 20-foot-long floating with an 8-foot by 10-foot gangway support float that is connected to landside with a 5-foot-wide by 40-foot-long gangway. Comments should be received by the close of business on June 5, 2025.

  • NAO-2022-00415 (State Programmatic General Permit, 23-SPGP-PASDO, Virginia)

    Expiration date: 3/30/2023

    The original public notice for this proposed State Programmatic General Permit (SPGP) was published on October 17, 2022. The revised 23-SPGP-PASDO is attached for public comment. Comments on the proposed issuance of the revised 23-SPGP-PASDO should be in writing and should be received by the close of business on March 30, 2023.

    Proposed revised 23-SPGP-PASDO permit
    Appendix I Permit Specific Criteria
    Appendix II Category A Criteria for Pier Structures

  • NAO-2022-00415

    Expiration date: 11/18/2022

    NAO-2022-00415 with revised suspense date : Description: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Norfolk District (Corps) proposes the issuance of a 2022 State Programmatic General Permit (SPGP) to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The SPGP authorizes certain pier, aquaculture, shoreline, dredging, and other (PASDO) activities in tidal or non-tidal waters of the United States (WOTUS), including wetlands, within the geographical limits of the Commonwealth of Virginia and under the regulatory jurisdiction of the Corps. The purpose of the SPGP is to reduce duplicative review for activity-specific projects where local, state, and federal regulations overlap regulatory purview. The SPGP will provide streamlined review of permit applications processed by the Corps, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) and/or Local Wetland Boards (LWB), and the Virginia Department of Environmental (VDEQ).

    SPGP