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Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Marine Trades Industrial Park (North Cedar Street in Port Angeles, Washington)
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2023
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Series: ESA Section 7 Consultation
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Alternative Title:Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Marine Trades Industrial Park (North Cedar Street in Port Angeles, Washington)
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Description:The EDA proposes to partially fund, through grant assistance, the construction of a new ship building and repair facility for the applicant, the Port, at a vacant lot currently owned by the Port. The facility, called the Marine Trades Industrial Park, would encompass 17.3 acres of waterfront in Port Angeles at Lat/Long 48.122874, -123.440290. As of the time of this Biological Opinion, the EDA had already distributed these funds to the Port. However, the project is still in planning stages and funding was provided, in part, for design and planning. A Corps section 404 Clean Water Act (CWA) permit would also be required for this project. NMFS is therefore consulting with the EDA on the proposed Marine Trades Industrial Park receiving federal funding from the EDA, as well as permitting by the Corps, as the late arriving action agency. The following summarizes the proposed action per Section 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8 of the HIP and Sections 1-2.4 of the BE: The Port would convert an existing vacant lot, adjacent to Port Angeles Bay, into a ship repair and building facility. The project would consist of primarily upland/riparian area activities, without a work window. This would include grading of the site, construction of an asphalt boat hoist access road, asphalt vehicle access road, asphalt work pad sites, gravel building pad sites, installation of upland utilities (water, sewer, and power), and the installation of the stormwater infrastructure to support industrial park development. Stormwater infrastructure would include catch basins, piping, bioretention treatment and the replacement of an existing outfall to Port Angeles Harbor. This treatment facility would be sized to treat stormwater from the entire 16.9‐acres of impervious surface at the project site up to the 50-year rain event. Three phases or cells of the treatment system include a pretreatment phase (pea gravel), a treatment phase (standard Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) stormwater compost and sand biofiltration mix) and a third polishing phase (up‐flow through expanded shale and bio‐char). The treated stormwater would then discharge at the shoreline through a repaired 30‐inch diameter outfall, located in a rip-rap revetment, to Port Angeles Harbor (Strait of Juan de Fuca) at an elevation of +7.06 feet mean lower low water (MLLW). The outfall construction activities are planned for the 2024 in‐water construction season. Outfall construction would occur during the in-water work window, July 15 through February 15. At the east side of the site, adjacent to the Valley Creek Pocket Estuary on the shoreline, 11,200 square feet of riparian zone restoration/planting would occur.
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