Witten Lumber Transmittal ltr-OCR

AVA
MCDEMR
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Waste Management
Pat McCrory
Governor
June 30, 2014
Mr. James D. Marchesano, Vice President
QuikTrip Corporation
4705 South 129 East Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74134
Subject: Conclusion of Brownfields Agreement Process
Witten Lumber Site
310 East Long A venue, Gaston County
Brownfields Project Number 16020-12-036
Dear Mr. Marchesano:
John E. Skvarla, Ill
Secretary
We are very pleased the Brownfields Agreement process regarding this project is
approaching successful conclusion. To that end, please find enclosed the Notice of
Brownfields Property (Notice), the Brownfields Agreement (Agreement) and the plat for this
Property certified by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
(DENR) via the signature of Linda M. Culpepper, Director of the Division of Waste
Management.
Please promptly have all necessary parties on the Prospective Developers' side of the
transaction sign and notarize the Notice and sign the Agreement. Please file the documents
for recordation with the Register of Deeds of Gaston County. Documents to be recorded are:
• The Notice of Brownfields Property (signed and notarized);
• Exhibit A (signed Brownfields Agreement);
• Exhibit B (8 Yz x 11 reduction of the plat);
• Exhibit C (Legal Description);
• Exhibit 1 (Area Map); and
• Full-sized survey plat (signed by DENR).
N.C.G.S. § 130A-310.35(b) requires filing of the Notice within 15 days of Prospective
Developer's receipt ofDENR's approval of the Notice or Prospective Developer's entry into
the Brownfields Agreement, whichever is later.
You are responsible for obtaining the Register of Deeds signature at the end of the Notice,
although the Register of Deeds' stamp at the top of the Notice's first page with the Book and
Page numbers where both the Notice and the plat are recorded will suffice. Upon your filing
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of the Notice, the Register of Deeds is required by N.C.G.S. § 130A-310.35(c) to record and
index it in the grantor index under the names of the owners of the land, and, if different, also
under the name of the Prospective Developer.
Pursuant to paragraph 20 of the Agreement, within three days after the Register of Deeds has
recorded the Notice of Brownfields Property, you must furnish DENR a copy of the Notice
containing a certification by the Register of Deeds as to the Book and Page numbers where
both the Notice and the plat are recorded, and a copy of the actual, full-sized plat with
notations by the Register of Deeds indicating its recordation. (Make sure that the exhibits to
the Notice are attached to the certified copy you furnish DENR.) Please send these items to:
Ms. Shirley Liggins
N.C. Division of Waste Management
Brownfields Program
Mail Service Center 1646
Raleigh, NC 27699-1646
Thank you for your attention to these final administrative matters, and also for your help
during the course of completing the Brownfields Agreement process regarding this site.
~~
Bruce Nicholson
Brownfields Program Manager
Enclosures
ec: Linda Culpepper
Sharon Poissant Eckard, PG
Shirley Liggins
Matthew McDuffie, Genesis Project, Inc.