Coastal Barge Corp. v. Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board

McNEILLY, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Superior Court’s affirmance of the Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board’s (“Board”) decision of May 7, 1984 prohibiting the Coastal Barge Corporation (“Coastal Barge”) from engaging in a coal lightering operation in the lower Delaware Bay. The Superior Court and the Board concluded that Coastal Barge’s proposed coal lightering operation was prohibited by the Coastal Zone Act. 7 DelC. §§ 7001-7013. For the reasons hereinafter explained, we affirm.

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This case turns primarily on the issue of statutory interpretation. The facts leading to this suit are…