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Orange County Coastal Regional Sediment Management Plan • Runs of steelhead trout; and • Particularly high human use times, and not interrupt beach access. Placement Rate Placement rates have been restricted on previous beach nourishment projects to control turbidity levels on projects occurring near sensitive species or beach uses. Controlled or limited beach nourishment placement rates may also extend the sand placement period and thus the period of turbid conditions. The restriction has been applied to dredging projects and is typically expressed as a quantity of sand placed per year or month. Limiting the placement rate will also limit the number of truck or train trips per day required to transport land-based material. The number of trucks and trains must be controlled to minimize adverse impacts to air quality, traffic and circulation, public safety, and noise. Project Monitoring Physical and biological monitoring may be done prior to project construction to develop a baseline for comparison of potential effects, and during and after construction to quantify changes and enable analyses of project effects. Please refer to Section 7 for a detailed description of project monitoring requirements. 3.6.3 Other Regulatory Considerations or Guidance General Permits The Plan covers a range of project types that may qualify under a nationwide permit, regional general permits, or may require standard individual permits. All three types of permits are issued by the USACE regulatory program. Nationwide and regional general permits are discussed below. Nationwide permits are one type of general permit that authorizes a category of activities throughout the nation. They are issued for five year periods, most recently in 2007 (USACE, 2007a). As of 2012, there were 50 nationwide permits covering a broad array of topics regulated under the USACE mission. Regional general permits provide a process to streamline permitting, reviews and approvals, for projects generally considered to have minimal adverse environmental incremental or cumulative impacts on waters of the United States and, therefore, not requiring individualized permit review. For replenishment projects within Newport Bay that are less than 1000 yd 3 (plus other conditions), the Newport Beach Harbor Resources Division maintains a Regional General Permit No. 54 (RGP 54). As issued by USACE (City of Newport Beach, no date; USACE, no Everest International Consultants, Inc. 3.56
Orange County Coastal Regional Sediment Management Plan date), RGP 54 is valid for five years, with the most recent permit ending on October 4, 2011. The permit is currently in the process of being renewed. The RGP 54 simplifies the permitting process, condensing the individual homeowner documentation into a four page dredging application (with supporting documents) submitted to the Harbor Resources Division. General information such as locations, project description, quantities, depths, grain sizes, and environmental habitat information are required. For the Harbor Resources Division, the RGP 54 permitting application process typically requires five years to carry out, so once a new permit is granted, a new application process must begin immediately. In addition, once homeowners submit their dredging application it cannot be approved by the Harbor Resources Division, but must instead go before the CCC for review. This process would likely benefit from streamlining. USACE (2005b) issued RGP 66 for the City of San Clemente to allow five years of beach nourishment at North Beach, Linda Lane, and T-Street. This permit ended in January 24, 2010, and is in the process of being renewed. Sand Compatibility and Opportunistic Use Program (SCOUP) SCOUP is a California-wide opportunistic beach nourishment program developed by the CSMW as a template to facilitate the development of local opportunistic sand programs (Moffatt & Nichol, 2006). SCOUP provides this template by identifying relevant and appropriate: • Jurisdictional regulatory agencies, required permits and informational needs; • Specific considerations needed to establish and rank potential receiver sites within the littoral cell or other regional area; • Types of anthropogenic activities that could produce viable potential sources of sediment if located within an economic distance of the receiver site; • Testing protocols, criteria and checklists required to assess potential physical, chemical and biological impacts associated with the use of opportunistic materials, as well as establish compatibility between potential sediment sources and the approved receiver site(s); • Project design considerations including maximum volume, placement techniques, placement rates and location (typically based on biological or recreational concerns), and transportation methods/impacts (often associated with disturbance of nearby residents and economic considerations); • Biological and physical monitoring concerns and testing needed before, during and after project construction, as well as reporting requirements; • Description of user steps required to successfully implement a regional opportunistic program, including additional informational needs and project design considerations when using less-than-optimum source sands; and Everest International Consultants, Inc. 3.57
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