25036_Clariant Corp_SNI_20231024

25036-21-060/Clariant Corp/20231024

SUMMARY OF NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEVELOP A BROWNFIELDS PROPERTY Brownfields Property Name: Clariant Corporation Brownfields Project Number: 25036-21-060 Pursuant to the North Carolina Brownfields Property Reuse Act (the “Act”) authorized by North Carolina
General Statutes (NCGS) § 130A-310.30 through 130A-310.40, and specifically pursuant to NCGS § 130A-
310.34, 4000 Monroe, LLC, as Prospective Developer, has filed with the North Carolina Department of
Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) a Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property (“Property”) located at
4000, 4008, and 4014 Monroe Road, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County. The Brownfields Property consists of
approximately 9.8923 acres and was most recently occupied by Clariant Corporation (formerly Sandoz
Chemicals), a specialty chemical company. Environmental contamination exists on the Brownfields Property in
soil, soil gas, and groundwater. 4000 Monroe, LLC, has committed itself to redevelop the Brownfields Property
for no uses other than office, parking, retail, restaurant, warehousing, beverage or food production facility,
institutional, open space, entertainment and with prior written DEQ approval, other recreational, commercial and
industrial uses. The Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property includes: (1) a proposed Brownfields
Agreement between DEQ and 4000 Monroe, LLC, which in turn includes (a) a map showing the location of the
Property, (b) a description of the contaminants involved and their concentrations in the media of the Property, (c)
the above-stated description of the intended future use of the Brownfields Property, and (d) proposed investigation
and remediation; and (2) a proposed Notice of Brownfields Property prepared in accordance with NCGS § 130A-
310.35.
The full Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property may be reviewed at the Charlotte
Mecklenburg Library – Plaza Midwood located at 1623 Central Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28205, by contacting
Catherine Haydon at [e-mail] or at [phone]; or at the offices of the N.C. Brownfields
Program, 217 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC or by contacting Shirley Liggins at that address, at
[e-mail], or at [phone]. The full Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property
may also be reviewed online at the DEQ public record database, Laserfiche, by entering the project number 25036-
21-060 into the search bar at the following web address:
https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/WasteManagement/Welcome.aspx?dbid=0&repo=WasteManagement

The “Act” requires a public comment period of at least 30 days. The first day of public comment is defined
as the day after which all of the following public notice tasks have occurred: the date this Notice is: (1) published
in a newspaper of general circulation serving the area in which the Brownfields Property is located; (2)
conspicuously posted at the Brownfields Property; and (3) mailed or delivered to each owner of property
contiguous to the Brownfields Property. Written public comments may be submitted to DEQ within 30 days after
the public comment period begins. Written requests for a public meeting may be submitted to DEQ within 21 days
after the public comment period begins. These periods will start no sooner than November 6, 2023, and will end
no sooner than the later of: 1) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after that; or 2) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after
completion of the latest of the three (3) above-referenced tasks, if such completion occurs later than the date stated
herein. All public comments and public meeting requests should be addressed as follows:
Mr. Bruce Nicholson Brownfields Redevelopment Section Chief Division of Waste Management NC Department of Environmental Quality
1646 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1646