Virginia Administrative Code › Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Agency 20 - MARINE RESOURCES COMMISSION › Chapter 1340 - FAST-TRACK PERMITTING PROGRAM FOR DISPOSAL OF DREDGED MATERIAL › Section 4VAC20-1340-20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Coastal resilience" means the ability of natural and built
				  coastal environments to withstand and recover from hazardous events such as
				  extreme weather, storm surge, and recurrent flooding.
"Joint Permit Application" means the current standard
				  application utilized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Virginia Marine
				  Resources Commission, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, and local
				  wetlands boards to evaluate projects involving submerged lands, wetlands, and
				  coastal primary sand dunes and beaches for permit review.
"Living shoreline" means the same as defined in §
									28.2-104.1
				  of the Code of Virginia, that is, a shoreline management practice that provides
				  erosion control and water quality benefits; protects, restores, or enhances
				  shoreline habitat; and maintains coastal processes through the strategic
				  placement of plants, stone, sand fill, and other structural and organic
				  material.
"Local government" means counties, cities, towns, and
				  political subdivisions of the Commonwealth.
"Sand" or "beach sand" means material that is SM (silty
				  sands), SP (poorly graded sand), or SW (well graded sand), using the Unified
				  Soil Classification System, with a minimum median grain size of around 0.25 mm
				  with no more than 20% passing through a #100 sieve (0.149mm) and no more than
				  10% passing through a #200 sieve (0.074mm).
"Sand dunes and beaches" means the jurisdictional areas
				  defined as "coastal primary sand dunes" and "beaches" in §
									28.2-1400 of the Code
				  of Virginia.
"Submerged aquatic vegetation bed" or "SAV bed" means those
				  areas of submerged aquatic vegetation identified and annually mapped by
				  Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) during at least one of the previous
				  five years. "Submerged aquatic vegetation" means any of a diverse assemblage of
				  underwater plants found in the shoal areas of the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's
				  coastal bays and river tributaries, that are primarily eelgrass (Zostera
				  marina), widgeon grass (Ruppia maritima), or may include Eurasian watermilfoil
				  (Myriophyllum spicatum), redhead grass (Potamogeton perfoliatus), wild celery
				  (Vallisneria americana), common elodea (Elodea canadensis), water stargrass
				  (Heteranthera dubia), coontail (Ceratophyllum demersum), water-weed (Egeria
				  densa), muskgrass (Najas minor), pondweeds (Potamogeton sp.), Hydrilla
				  (Hydrilla verticillata), and naiads (Najas sp.).
"VMRC" means the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.
"Wetlands" means the jurisdictional areas defined as
				  "vegetated wetlands" and "nonvegetated wetlands" in §
									28.2-1300 of the Code
				  of Virginia.
Statutory Authority: §
											28.2-103
					 of the Code of Virginia.