The permit applicant, Suffolk County Department of Public Works, has requested Department of the Army authorization to perform dredging with ten-year maintenance with placement of all resultant dredged material at a designated beach placement area. The project is located at Miamogue Lagoon at Flanders Bay, Great Peconic Bay; and the Flanders Bay shoreline west of the Miamogue Lagoon entrance to Flanders Bay; all within the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. The stated purpose of this project is to provide safe navigation for recreational marine vessels transiting between Miamogue Lagoon and Flanders Bay as well as to provide sand nourishment for the Flanders Bay shoreline for erosion and flood protection. DA Permit Number NAN-2004-01343, issued to the Suffolk County Department of Public Works on 12 September 2007 for ten-year maintenance dredging of the Miamogue Lagoon entrance to Flanders Bay, expires on 12 September 2017.