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MVN-2014-2122-EPP

Published Sept. 8, 2014

Expiration date: 10/8/2014

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NAME OF APPLICANT: Valero Refining-Meraux, c/o Lanier & Associates, 4101 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70115.

LOCATION OF WORK: The project is located on the left descending bank of the Mississippi River, at about 87.0 miles above Head of Passes, at 2500 East St. Bernard Highway, in Meraux, Louisiana, in St. Bernard Parish, as shown on the attached drawings.

Latitude: 29.92521/Longitude: -89.94594Hydrologic Unit Codes: 08090100 Lower Mississippi-New Orleans.

CHARACTER OF WORK: Install and maintain a new ship dock, piperack with walkway, and mooring structures and dredge within the batture directly behind the new ship dock to allow access to the existing inshore barge berth and removal of existing mooring dolphin. Project implementation will require the excavation and deposition of 91,000 cubic yards of native material. Approximately 1.5 acres of jurisdictional wetlands will be impacted by the proposed activities. The applicant proposed to contract with an approved mitigation bank in order to offset the adverse impact to jurisdictional wetlands.