Friends of Eastern Bay v. Department of Marine Resources

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment upholding the Department of Marine Resources’ approval of a reduced-size, twenty-year aquaculture lease that included a permanently moored storage raft. It held that the Commissioner had authority to approve the raft as part of the aquaculture operation, that the record supported the findings concerning interference and noise, and that the application was properly treated as non-discharge. The court also upheld the refusal to reopen the administrative record because the asserted possibility of PFAS discharge was speculative.