C. Will The lease will not unreasonably interfere with fishing or other uses of the area taking into consideration the number and density of aquaculture leases in an area. For the purposes of this paragraph, "fishing" includes public access to a redeemable shellfish resource, as defined by the department, for the purpose of harvesting, provided that the resource is commercially significant and subject to a pollution abatement plan that predates the lease application, that includes verifiable activities in the process of implementation and that is reasonably expected to result in the opening of the area to the taking of shellfish within 3 years;.

D. Will The lease will not unreasonably interfere with significant wildlife habitat and marine habitat or with the ability of the lease site and surrounding marine and upland areas to support existing ecologically significant flora and fauna;.

E. The applicant has demonstrated that there is an available source of organisms to be cultured for the lease site;.

F. The lease does not unreasonably interfere with public use or enjoyment within 1,000 feet of municipally owned, state-owned or federally owned beaches and parks or municipally owned, state-owned or federally owned docking facilities; a beach, park or docking facility owned by the Federal Government, the State Government or a municipal governmental agency or certain conserved lands.__For purposes of this paragraph, "conserved lands" means land in which fee ownership has been acquired by the municipal government, State Government or Federal Government in order to protect the important ecological, recreational, scenic, cultural or historic attributes of that property.

The Executive Department, State Planning Office shall maintain a list of conserved lands.__The commissioner shall request this information from the State Planning Office prior to holding a preapplication proceeding.

G. Will The lease will not result in unreasonable impact from noise or light at the boundaries of the lease site; and.

H. Upon the implementation of rules, the lease must be in compliance with visual impact criteria adopted by the commissioner relating to color, height, shape and mass.