AGENDA
Semi-Monthly Meeting – Full Council
Tuesday, April 12, 2022; 6:00 p.m.

Administration Building, Conference Room A
One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting — Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Subcommittee Reports

Staff Reports

APPLICATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN OUT TO NOTICE AND ARE BEFORE THE COUNCIL FOR FINAL DECISION:

2021-09-056 KENNETH & ELVIRA GUARINO -- To construct and maintain a 4’x109’ pier with accompany 4’ x 20’access section. The dock extends approximately 110 linear ft seaward of MLW. A boat lift capable of hosting 25,000 lbs is proposed for the end of pier.

Located at plat 1, lot 109; 50 Fort Avenue, Cranston, RI.

2021-08-011 RI WATERFRONT ENTERPRISES, LLC -- The construction of a state of the art maritime port facility for shipping, commodity transport, heavy lift component transfer and assembly. The project will include a new cellular coffer dam wall that is 1380 linear feet (LF) along the channel and has a 380 foot long return at each end of the wall. The wall consists of 25 – 61 foot (ft) diameter cells with 24 – 22ft x 61ft interconnect cells. There will be a 150’ Roll-on / Roll-off ramp at the southwestern end of the bulkhead.

The area in front of the wall will be dredged to elevation -32’ MLLW. The approximate volume of dredging is 169,800 cubic yards (CY) including all overdredge. Approximately 111,000 CY will be reused upland with the remaining material to be disposed in the CAD cell. The site will be elevated to elevation +20 ft MLLW. To accomplish this grade the site will be filled with approximately 193,000 CY of material, some of which will be reused dredge material. The fill material needed will be imported to the site. The site will have areas where the fill is compacted and/or amended to allow heavy loads. The upland area will include 4560 LF of new waterline and 4440 LF of new electrical line. The project will impact 21,278 SF of fringe saltmarsh and 5,549 SF of uppermarsh.

Located at plat 7, lot 3; South Quay; 649 Waterfront Avenue, East Providence, RI.

Public Hearing: CRMC Management Procedures 650-RICR-10-00-1 amendment:

The CRMC proposes to amend its Management Procedures at § 1.5.12(A) to require the filing of any permit extension request at least 60 days prior to permit expiration for consistency with existing CRMC Assent stipulations and the new CRMC Freshwater Wetland regulations at 650-RICR-20-00-9.14.2(D) requiring same. Public notice was issued on March 29, 2022 and the 30-day comment period ends April 29, 2022.

Council Review and Action on Proposed Rulemaking:

Repeal of 650-RICR-20-00-2 CRMC Rules and Regulations Governing the Protection and Management of Freshwater Wetlands in the Vicinity of the Coast. The CRMC proposes to repeal the current existing CRMC Freshwater Wetlands Rules to be effective July 1, 2022. The effective date of this repeal will coincide with the implementation of the new CRMC Freshwater Wetlands Rules (650-RICR-20-00-9) that will be effective on July 1, 2022. Public notice for the repeal was issued on February 21, 2022 and the 30- day comment period ended March 24, 2022.

Request for an Executive Session pursuant to RIGL § 42-46-5 (a)(1) Personnel matter - The employee has been notified.

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