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Maritime Development Center, LLC has filed an application with the Department of Marine Resources requesting permission to conduct regulated activities under the provision of the Coastal Wetlands Protection Law Act, Title 49, Chapter 27, Mississippi Code of 1972. The applicant is proposing to construct a bulkhead, keyhole boat slip and dredge on the north bank of Bernard Bayou in Gulfport, Harrison County, MS. The project is located at 13085 Seaway Road, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS. The applicant is proposing to install a keyhole boat slip measuring 100 feet in width and 160 feet in length. The creation of the boat slip will involve approximately 10,000 cubic yards of upland excavation. The applicant is also proposing to construct a bulkhead approximately 970 feet in length and to dredge approximately 5,600 cubic yards of waterbottoms adjacent to the proposed bulkhead and boat slip. The applicant is also proposing to remove the existing piers and mooring pilings that are currently located on the project site. The applicant will also be required to request and justify a variance to two guidelines in the Mississippi Coastal Program which state, "Indented boatslips with angled sides shall be used in preference to keyhole boatslips" and "Depths of marina basins, boatslips and access channels shall not be any deeper than the controlling depth of the parent body of water and shall become gradually shallower preceding from the parent body of water to the nearshore area."

In compliance with Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251, 1341), as amended by PL 95-217, the applicant will request certification from the Office of Pollution Control that the above mentioned activity will be in compliance with applicable provisions of Section 301 (33 U.S.C. 1311), Section 302 (33 U.S.C. 1312), Section 303 (U.S.C. 1313), Section 306 (U.S.C. 1316), and Section 307 (U.S.C. 1317) of the Act and appropriate requirements of the State Law.

Any person wishing to make comments or objections to the proposed regulated activity must submit those comments in writing to the Department of Marine Resources at 1141 Bayview Avenue, Biloxi, Mississippi 39530 and the Office of Pollution Control, Post Office Box 2261, Jackson, Mississippi 39225-2261 before 1:00 p.m. on the day April 13, 2012.