These are public comments Wild Virginia made on projects related to our campaigns on PFAS, Virginia’s water quality, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), our habitat connectivity work, and other comments to protect wildlife. Included are appeals for legal notices and official letters to agencies or other important stakeholders in the regulatory process.
Pipelines
Letter to DEQ Director re: Emergency Enforcement Action and Stop Work Instruction Required for Mountain Valley Pipeline (February 8, 2024)
Report: MVP’s Record of Pollution Incidents is Predictive of Future Water Quality Threats (July 28, 2022)
Documenting the Damage: Wild Va. letter to State Water Control Board (December 13, 2021)
Response to Public Notice about Mountain Valley Pipeline (November 19, 2021)
Comments on Mountain Valley Pipeline Draft VWP Permit/401 Water Quality Certification (October 27, 2021)
Response to Public Notice about Mountain Valley Pipeline (May 28, 2021)
Analysis of Impacts from Mountain Valley Pipeline Waterbody Crossings (May 28, 2021)
Scoping Comments, Mountain Valley Pipeline (April 15, 2021)
Comments on Permitting for Mountain Valley Pipeline (July 27, 2020)
Response to Public Notice about Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline Projects (April 27, 2018)
Response to Public Notice about Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline Projects (April 27, 2018)
Forest Service Must Clarify, Limit Scope of Closure for Pipeline (March 12, 2018)
Letter to Members of the Virginia State Water Control Board (October 25, 2017)
Comments to Virginia Outdoors Foundation (November 16, 2017)
Objection to Draft Record of Decision, Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project Special Use Permit/Land and Resource Management Plan Amendments
(September 5, 2017)
Comments on MVP WQC (August 22, 2017)
Comments on FEIS for the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Proposed Grant of a Right-of-Way to Cross the Jefferson National Forest (July 31, 2017)
Comments Black Bear Management (May 10, 2017)
Nettle Patch DEA Comments (April 24, 2017)
Wild Virginia ACP DEIS Comments (April 9, 2017)
Appalmad ACP DEIS Comments (April 10, 2017)
Wild Virginia Comments on MVP DEIS (December 22, 2016)
Comments on DEIS for Atlantic Sunrise Project (June 2016)
Wild Virginia – Motion to Reject Application – ACP (June 2, 2016)
Right of Way Permit for The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Survey (March 21, 2016)
Army Corps Letter: regarding ACP (October 8, 2015)
Mountain Valley Pipeline Comments (June 9, 2015)
Final FERC Comments – ACP (April 28, 2015)
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Comments- Monongahela NF (February 2, 2015)
Mountain Valley Pipeline Comments (February 2, 2015)
ACP Pipeline Survey Comments GWNF (January 23, 2015)
Cove Point FERC Comments (June 2014)
Water Quality
Comments on Reissuance of VPDES General Permit (June 24, 2022)
Comments on Permit for Discharges of Stormwater from Construction Activities (April 27, 2022)
Comments on Triennial Review Proposed Rulemaking to Adopt New, Update or Cancel Existing Water Quality Standards (March 18, 2022)
Comments on DEQ Draft 2022 Water Quality Assessment Guidance Manual (February 18, 2021)
Comments Mount Storm DEA (January 27, 2021)
Comments on DEQ Water Quality Assessment (July 9, 2020)
Response to Scoping Notice for North Shenandoah Mountain Restoration and Management Project (November 6, 2017)
Big Run Road Decommissioning Comments (June 6, 2016)
Nettle Patch Project (May 2, 2016)
Forest Roads Comments to EPA (February 12, 2016)
Lower Cowpasture Objection (September 14, 2015)
Lower Cowpasture EA Comments (June 15, 2015)
Lower Cowpasture – Scoping Comments (July 31, 2014)- James River Ranger District, & Warm Springs Ranger District
Lower Cowpasture Restoration Project – Additional Wild VA Comments (June 13, 2014) – James River Ranger District, & Warm Springs Ranger District
Lower Cowpasture Restoration Project – Wild VA Preliminary Comments (February 6, 2014) – James River Ranger District, & Warm Springs Ranger District
Peters Mountain Appeal (March 11, 2013) – James River Ranger District
Wildlife
Comments on Archer Knob Project (January 18, 2022)
Comments VDGIF Migratory Birds (May 16, 2020)
Letter to Governor Northam re: urgent action needed to save Virginia sea birds (January 21, 2020)
Comments Duncan Knob Project (April 24, 2019)
Comments White Pine Thin No. River Dist. (March 8, 2019)
Duncan Knob Gypsy Moth Project Scoping Comments (October 15, 2018)
Duncan Knob Gypsy Moth Project Scoping Comments (July 26, 2018)
Tub Run Objection (January 19, 2017)
Gypsy Moth – Slow the Spread Comments (January 17, 2017)
Pulaski Grouse Comments (January 6, 2017)
Gypsy Moth Suppression Project (December 12, 2016)
Hearthstone Dam Scoping Comments (December 12, 2016)
Lockridge Scoping Comments (November 8, 2016)
Comments on Forest Maint. of Open Lands (November 3, 2016)
Wallace & Marshall Prescribed Burn Response (February 11, 2016)
Other
Reject Wheeler Nomination (February 4, 2022)
Comments on Proposed Rule, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Compliance (August 26, 2019)
Caseknife Commercial Thinning Comments (February 6, 2017)
Brady Hill Thin Comments (December 12, 2016)
Monitoring Admin Plan Changes GWNF and JNF Wild VA (April 29, 2016)
Moreland Gap Scoping Comments (April 15, 2016)
Lee Ranger District Range Management Project (March 2, 2016)
Tub Run Project Scoping Comments (December 17, 2015)
First Mountain Salvage Comments (August 19, 2015)
Breakneck Timber Sale (April 2010) – Lee Ranger District
Peters Mountain Road Relocation (August 2010) – James River District
Prescribed Burn, Spruce Ridge & Grindstone Mountain (April 2010) – North River (formerly Deerfield & Dry River) Ranger District
Rocky Spur Timber Sale (August 2009) – North River (formerly Deerfield & Dry River) Ranger District
Big Run Project – Summary (April 2009) – North River (formerly Deerfield & Dry River) Ranger District
Big Run Project (March 2009) – North River (formerly Deerfield & Dry River) Ranger District
Back Draft Timber Sale (August 2008) – North River (formerly Deerfield & Dry River) Ranger District
Marshall Run Timber Sale – Summary (February 2008) – North River (formerly Deerfield & Dry River) Ranger District
Marshall Run Timber Sale (October 2007) – North River (formerly Deerfield & Dry River) Ranger District
Great Little Timber Sale – Summary (April 2007) – Lee Ranger District
Prescribed Burn-Wood Turtle Proposal – Summary (December 2007) – Lee Ranger District
Robinson Hollow Timber Sale (March 2006) – Glenwood/Pedlar Ranger District