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ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
MICHAEL SCOTT
Director
Sent Via Certified Mail and Email
Daniel Robinson
ESC Redevelopment, LLC
129 Fleming Drive
Durham, NC 27701
danielggentiangroup. com
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
March 15, 2023
Subject: Change to No Further Interest Status
News & Record Greensboro
200 East Market Street; 106 & 218 South Church Street
Greensboro, Guilford County
Brownfields Project No. 23029-19-041
Dear Mr. Robinson:
Thank you for your initial interest in the North Carolina Brownfields Redevelopment
Section (NCBRS) for the above -referenced property. Your company, as the Prospective
Developer (PD), submitted a Brownfields Property Application (BPA) on May 2, 2019.
Following review of that BPA, you were found to be eligible, along with the property itself, for
continued evaluation for a brownfields agreement (BFA) under our standard track option. The
Letter of Eligibility (LOE) for this property was provided to you on May 28, 2019.
As specified in your LOE, the next step in the brownfields process following an
eligibility determination is to review available environmental assessment reports and address any
remaining data gaps with additional assessment. An assessment work plan entitled Brownfields
Assessment Work Plan (Terracon Consultants, Inc., October 15, 2019) was approved on October
25, 2019. This project has remained inactive since our approval of the data assessment work
plan. Subsequent project status correspondence with George House of Brooks Pierce on July 28,
2021, confirmed that the project was on hold, and a request for a status update on November 4,
2021, was left unanswered.
Obtaining a BFA requires that the PD provide the NCBRS with any information
necessary to ensure that the brownfields redevelopment is safe for the site's stated reuse. Due to
the inactivity on this project, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is
notifying you that it has updated the status of the referenced Brownfields Property from "Inactive
Eligible" to "No Further Interest" (NFI).
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Although its previous brownfields active eligible status did not preclude a DEQ cleanup
program from seeking assessment or cleanup from parties responsible for the contamination on
the above -referenced property, as a result of this database status change, we are referring
oversight of this property to the appropriate DEQ cleanup program. While this status change to
NFI does not automatically make you a responsible party, depending on your status as a
responsible party under applicable law, various DEQ programs may or may not seek your
cooperation in addressing this site at a future date.
Please be aware that certain regulatory requirements apply to owners of contaminated
sites. You may have statutory obligations to provide notification of a contaminated site to DEQ
Inactive Hazardous Sites Branch (IHSB). For more information about applicable requirements
for inactive hazardous sites, you may contact Janet MacDonald at [phone] or view their
web site at https:Hdeq.nc.gov/about/divisions/waste-management/waste-mana eg ment-permit-
guidance/inactive-hazardous-sites-site-notification-requirements.
If you feel this information is not complete or accurate, please contact us to discuss
further. This property remains a good candidate for a brownfields agreement. If in the future, you
or some other developer desires to pursue a brownfields agreement on this Brownfields Property,
please submit a BPA and signed affidavit. However, please be aware as stated in the LOE, that in
addition to potentially affecting your status as a responsible party under applicable law, any
activities conducted by you on the site without an executed BFA may affect your eligibility
should you choose to apply for eligibility again in the future.
If you have questions about this correspondence or require additional information, please feel
free to contact me by e-mail at holly. samaha(cncdenr.gov or by phone at [phone].
Sincerely, M
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Holly Samaha-Smith, PE
Brownfields Project Manager
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Bruce Nicholson, DEQ
Sharon Eckard, DEQ
Janet MacDonald, DEQ
Mark Miller, Terracon
George House, Brooks Pierce, PA
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