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RESOLUTION NO. 2011-059 A RESOLUTION OF Inc BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA URGING THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT TO ADDRESS CONCERNS RAISED BY COUNTY CITIZENS ABOUT DREDGED MATERIAL MANAGEMENT AREA IR -2. WHEREAS, the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND) is responsible for providing all lands required by the Federal government for the -periodic dredging of the channel of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) for navigation maintenance purposes; and WHEREAS, in the mid 1990s.(1995-97); FIND underwent a site selection process to identify storage locations for material to be dredged from the ICW, during which time the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners appointed the County Marine Advisory/Narrows Watershed Action Committee (MANWAC) to serve as a citizens advisory committee to provide feedback to FIND for the site selection process, and FIND held multiple public meetings for public input on dredged material management site selection; and WHEREAS, FIND, as part of its site selection process, collected limited sediment samples, conducted studies, and compiled other data, all of which was incorporated in reports made available to the public; and WHEREAS, as a result of the site selection process -and the input from MANWAC and the public meetings, FIND identified three primary sites and five secondary sites, all of which were identified in the County 2020 Comprehensive Plan, Policy 20.1 of the Future Land Use Element of the 2020 Comprehensive Plan included five criteria for selection of dredge spoil disposal sites. Using these criteria, FIND selected and acquired an approximately 180 acre dredged material management area (DMMA) now known as DMMA IR -2; and WHEREAS, FIND and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as part of their permitting process, recently updated some of the data collected during the site selection process; and WHEREAS, recently, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction of DMMA IR -2, prompting questions from county residents about the site selection, scope, need, design, and environmental sensitivity of the DMMA I R-2 project;, and WHEREAS, at a meeting of the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners on June 7, 2011, the Executive Director of FIND provided an update on the. status of the DMMA IR -2 project to the Board and to citizens in 1 F:\Community Development\Users\ROLAND\MANWAC\FIND DMMA IR-2\FIND DMMA IR -2 BCC Res revised draft.doc