Current through December 27, 2023
The following are water dependent industries to the extent
that they comply with the siting criteria below:
101.01 Commercial and sportfishing
facilities, including finfish and shellfish processing plants and large
commercial docking facilities.
101.02 Shipbuilding and repair for barges,
cargo vessels, combat ships, dredges, tugboats, floating dry docks, ferry
boats, landing ships, marine lighters, marine rigging, passenger-cargo vessels,
trawlers, sailing vessels, submarine tenders tankers, towboats, houseboats, and
other marine vessels and transportation.
101.03 Fabrication of steel and concrete
structural assemblies or components requiring water transport because of their
size, including barge sections, ship sections, large metal buoys, offshore
platforms and subassemblies, bridge sections, hoists, trusses, beams, and other
such structural components.
101.04
Commercial, industrial or manufacturing activities that receive or ship raw
materials or products by waterborne commerce.
101.05 Siting Criteria
101.05.01 The production site is on the
landward side of its water access facility and has its smaller dimension on the
waterfront. The production site is that area occupied by manufacturing
facilities, including material storage yards, piping, conveyors, other handling
facilities used in production, and outbuildings housing related manufacturing
activities. Administration and other detached buildings not integrally related
with production processes must be located either within the production site or
on its landward side. The waterfront is the general shoreline of the site,
notwithstanding inlets, finger canals, and the like. On corner lots, and on
other parcels having more than one shoreline, the waterfront is a shoreline on
which a water access facility is located.
101.05.02 To the extent that technical,
safety, or economic requirements prevent compliance with these guidelines, a
water dependent industry may site in accordance with such requirements in lieu
of the criteria in the Guidelines for Water Dependent Industries. Technical
requirements must be based on professionally accepted design standards or on
physical requirements that stem from the size, weight, or configuration of raw
materials or finished products. Safety requirements must be based on either
laws, rules, regulations or ordinances promulgated by a public entity, or on
safety standards promulgated by trade, industrial, or engineering associations.
Economic requirements are considered when compliance with these guidelines will
preclude an activity's products from being competitive in its usual markets.
The demonstration that compliance with these guidelines is simply more costly
than other alternatives will not in and of itself be considered economic
requirement.
101.05.03 Where
existing roads, rail lines, structures, or other physical barriers prevent an
activity from complying with these guidelines by restricting the size of the
area available for production facilities, structures may be built in a larger
area to the extent necessary to accommodate the production facilities.
101.05.04 Where a suitable site
for water dependent industry is covered by special management area plans
incorporated into the Mississippi Coastal Program, and where the plan
specifically treats water dependency criteria, the provisions of the special
management area plan will be used in lieu of the siting criteria in these
guidelines.
Adopted
10/22/2018
