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Federal Consistency Determination: Salem River Maintenance Dredging

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes to use small dredges to remove spot shoals from a segment of the Salem River navigational channel in Delaware jurisdictional waters over a period of 10 years.


Federal Consistency Certifications Submitted to the Delaware Coastal Management Program

A recent application to the Delaware Coastal Management Program for Federal Consistency Determination.


Delaware’s Climate Impacts

Climate change looks different depending on where you are in the world. In Delaware, climate change primarily takes the form of sea level rise, increasing temperatures and more frequent intense storms, including heavy precipitation and flooding.
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Climate Change Basics

Earth’s climate is changing, resulting in increasing temperatures and precipitation, and contributing to extreme weather and rising seas. The effects of climate change are already being observed in Delaware.
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    Delaware Emissions

    Human activities have increased the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, threatening the health and wellbeing of the people of Delaware.
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    Climate change is a global issue that will require global solutions, but we can all play a part in that greater effort by reducing our energy usage and conserving our resources.
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    Minimizing Impacts

    By maximizing resilience and adapting to climate change impacts now, we are better prepared for extreme and unexpected events.
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    Delaware has taken steps to address the causes and consequences of climate change with the goal of minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and maximizing resilience to the impacts of climate change we are witnessing today.
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    Terms and Definitions

    A glossary of terms used in the Delaware Climate Action Plan and in conversations about climate issues.
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    Minimizing Emissions

    By minimizing greenhouse gas emissions now, we contribute to a worldwide effort to reduce the severity of rapid climate change.
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  • Federal Consistency Determinations

    A list of recent applications to the Delaware Coastal Management Program for Federal Consistency Determinations.


    Federal Consistency Certifications

    A list of recent applications to the Delaware Coastal Management Program for Federal Consistency Determinations.


    Federal Consistency Determination: HUD/ Wilmington Housing

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposes to transfer 37 Scattered Sites from the Wilmington Housing Authority to the Delaware Affordable Housing Group, a non-profit entity.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Village at Pine View

    A-Del Construction Co. proposes to construct a turn lane on Frazer Road to serve the Village at Pine View subdivision, causing impacts to approximately 560 square feet of nontidal wetlands.


    Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board of the State of Delaware Notice of Public Hearing

    Notice of continuation of a hearing of the Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board that began on Sept. 15, 2021.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Mosquito Ditch Maintenance

    The applicant proposes to perform maintenance on an existing mosquito ditch located west of South Bowers Road to restore its drainage functionality by removing accumulated sediment from the channel.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Paese-Kimbrough Docking Facilities

    The applicants propose to build docking facilities consisting of an elevated walkway over vegetated wetlands, a fixed pier, a fixed dock, and a boat lift on the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal, in Lewes.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Bluefish Fishery Management Plan

    The National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to update the Bluefish Fishery Management Plan using the best information available by revising quota allocations and management procedures.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan

    The National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to conduct Amendment 21 to the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan to allow for more controlled access to the scallop resource and increase monitoring to support a growing directed scallop fishery in Federal waters.


    Coastal Zone Act Permit: FujiFilm

    The Coastal Zone Act Program has issued a permit to FujiFilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. to build and operate a new manufacturing plant to produce high-performance aqueous pigment dispersions at its facility at 233 Cherry Lane, New Castle.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Paese Dock and Pier

    The applicant proposes to dredge a portion of the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal and build a fixed pier, fixed dock, boat lift, gangway, floating dock and a wetland walkway.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Reed Docking Facilities

    The applicant proposes to remove two existing fixed piers and to build a new fixed pier with a boat lift, including two catwalks, and to build a fixed pier with a double PWC lift, including three catwalks, at 201 Anglers Road, Lewes.


    Federal Consistency Determination: HUD Heritage Shores Townhomes Bridgeville

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposes to finance construction of a multifamily residential development on a 26.7-acre property located within a larger parent tract at 1 Heritage Shores Circle, Bridgeville.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Garey Grain Storage Bin

    The USDA Farm Service Agency proposes to fund the construction a Grain Storage Bin at 3939 Hopkins Cemetery Road, in Felton.


    Public Hearing: Green Energy Program Regulations

    The Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy will conduct a public hearing to consider comments from the public on proposed revisions to the Regulations for the Green Energy Program.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Murderkill River Channel

    The DNREC Division of Watershed Stewardship is requesting modifications to an existing U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to change the method of dredging for a portion of the Murderkill River and change the volume of material authorized to be disposed in overboard disposal sites.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Emerson Grain Bin and Grain Dryer

    The USDA Farm Service Agency is proposing to fund the construction of a grain storage bin and install a grain dryer on a property in Middletown.


    Federal Consistency Determination: NOAA Atlantic Migratory Group Rulemaking

    The National Marine Fisheries Services is proposing to promulgate a rule that would increase the commercial quota for Atlantic migratory group cobia.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company

    The Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company proposes to relocate a section of buried natural gas pipeline along Polly Drummond Hill Road and Red Mill Road, near Newark, in coordination with a DelDOT road improvement project.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Rose Docking Facility

    The applicant proposes to build a pier and dock adjacent to the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal at 77 Tidewater Road, Henlopen Acres.


    Federal Consistency Determination: HUD River House

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposes to build a new five-story, 150-unit multi-family apartment structure at 401 A Street, Wilmington.


    Public Hearing: FujiFilm Coastal Zone Act Permit

    DNREC will hold a public hearing on an application for a Coastal Zone permit from FujiFilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. to build and operate a new manufacturing plant at its facility at 233 Cherry Lane, New Castle.


    Federal Consistency Certification: ESNG Seaford Offset and Southend Lateral Relocation

    The Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company is seeking a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorization to relocate and/or perform maintenance on existing buried natural gas pipelines, at two locations along U.S. Route 13 in Sussex County.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Emerson Grain Storage Bin

    The USDA Farm Service Agency is proposing to fund the construction of a grain storage bin, involving ground disturbance below the plow line to pour a concrete foundation to be located at 1035 Jamison Corner Rd, Middletown.


    Federal Consistency Certification: ESNG Delaware City

    The Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company is seeking a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorization for a proposed gas-line expansion/improvement project at an existing compressor station facility located on School House Road, Delaware City.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Wilmington Harbor Maintenance Dredging

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposes to extend their authorization to conduct maintenance dredging of the Federal navigation channel and turning basin at the Port of Wilmington for a ten-year period (2021-2030).


    Federal Consistency Determinations Submitted to the Delaware Coastal Management Program

    The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) proposes to fund a grain storage bin near Dover and a Hay storage bin near Middletown.


    Federal Consistency Certifications Submitted to the Delaware Coastal Management Program

    Delaware City Refining Company proposes to dredge the cooling water intake channel and access channel. River View Industrial Park proposes to rectify non-permitted placement of fill by a previous owner.


    Federal Consistency Determinations Submitted to the Delaware Coastal Management Program

    The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) proposes to fund the construction of grain storage bins in Dover and in Townsend.


    Federal Consistency Certification: ESNG Elkton Road Relocation Project

    Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company (ESNG) is proposing to relocate a portion of a 6-inch diameter buried natural gas pipeline in the areas of Elkton Road (SR 279) and Otts Chapel Road, in New Castle County.


    Federal Consistency Certification: ESNG Polk Branch Creek Crossing

    Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company proposes to relocate 680 linear feet of a buried natural gas pipeline adjacent to U.S. Route 13 in the Bridgeville area to allow for a DelDOT remediation project.


    Federal Consistency Determination: USDA Farm Service Agency

    The USDA Farm Service Agency proposes to subordinate a loan by an existing borrower to build a house/shop and install a driveway, parking area, well and septic system on approximately 9 acres of cleared cropland on Chapel Branch Road in Seaford.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Middlesex Beach Nourishment

    Middlesex Beach Association proposes to conduct periodic beach replenishment over 10 years by dredging sand from offshore and depositing it along a stretch of shoreline between Bethany Beach and the Town of South Bethany.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Grain Storage Facility

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency proposes to provide loans for the construction of a new grain storage facility on a farm west of Seaford.


    Federal Consistency Certification: Residences at River Place

    Residences at River Place, LLC proposes to fill 1,982 square feet of non-tidal wetlands as part of a project to construct two apartment buildings with thirty six units each at The Residences at Riverplace Phase 3, Riverplace Drive, Seaford.


    Coastal Zone Act Status Decision: Atlantic Concrete

    The DNREC Secretary has determined that a proposal by Atlantic Concrete to build a new concrete manufacturing plant to replace two existing plants on Old Orchard Rd., Lewes, would not require a permit under the Coastal Zone Act.


    Federal Consistency Certification: MMW Investments, LLC

    MMW Investments, LLC proposes to remove existing, deteriorated docking facilities and construct new docking facilities at 640 Pilottown Road, in Lewes.


    Federal Consistency Determination: Copen / Kirby Docking Additions

    The applicant proposes adding a personal watercraft lift to an existing structure and installing a floating kayak dock with two support pilings at 32 Eleanor Lee Lane East, Rehoboth Beach.


    Public Hearing: Proposed 2021 Weatherization Assistance Program Grant Application

    The DNREC Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy will conduct a virtual public hearing on the proposed Weatherization Assistance Program 2021 grant application.


    Public Participation

    Public participation has been essential to developing Delaware’s Climate Action Plan. In addition to public workshops held in the spring and fall of 2020, online surveys and comment forms soliciting public input, DNREC sought insight from Delaware-based technical stakeholders in the buildings, electric power, industrial transportation and waste sectors —





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