New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Env - Department of Environmental Services
Subtitle Env-Wt - Wetlands Programs
Chapter Env-Wt 600 - COASTAL LANDS AND TIDAL WATERS/WETLANDS
Part Env-Wt 611 - SAND DUNES
Section Env-Wt 611.06 - Project Classifications: Major Impact Projects
Universal Citation: NH Admin Rules Env-Wt 611.06
Current through Register No. 13, March 27, 2025
(a) Any activity that would destroy, raze, deface, reduce, alter, build on, or remove any sand or vegetation from any sand dune shall be a major impact project unless it does not require a permit as specified in Env-Wt 611.02 or is a project that qualifies as a minimum impact project as specified in Env-Wt 611.07.
(b) Major projects shall be subject to the mitigation requirements specified in Env-Wt 311, Env-Wt 313, Env-Wt 605, and Env-Wt 800.
(c) Major projects shall include, but are not limited to:
(1)
Development of an undeveloped in-fill lot located contiguous to the fore
dune;
(2) Removal with heavy
equipment or other tracked or wheeled machinery of a portion of a formed or
vegetated sand dune that has encroached on an existing dwelling to a degree
that cannot be remedied by use of hand tools;
(3) Changes to the morphology of an existing
or forming dune or removal of established dune vegetation;
(4) Previously developed in-fill lots found
to have threatened or endangered species located on the lot; and
(5) Any other proposal to alter by regulated
activity any area of fore dune or back dune.
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