The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Coastal Management (DCM) will conduct a spring training workshop May 20-21 in Swansboro for local permit officers in the central and southern regions of its 20 coastal county service area.
Cooperative state and local government programs are an important component of the Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA). Locally adopted Implementation and Enforcement Plans allow local governments to process CAMA minor permits in-house, giving them an active role in the management of the coastal resources within their jurisdictions, as well as providing an additional public service to residents.
Participants will learn about:
CAMA rule updates
Policy updates & minor permit processing
Legal updates, adjacent riparian property owners’ notifications
CAMA Major Permit Section updates
Planning & Resiliency to Planning and Resilient Coastal Communities Program
Riparian buffer rules
Compliance and enforcement
Field work on identifying coastal wetlands/Section 404 Wetlands, normal high water (NHW) boundary, first line of stable natural vegetation and dune system
Learn more about the types of permits issued by the Division of Coastal Management online.