20221122_ADI_00-35

�diHESiAT-Q,
ROY COOPER
Governor
? i' - r
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Q
Secretary
AM VIOL
BRIAN WRENN NORTH CAROLINA
Director Environmental Quality
November 23, 2022
Certified Mail
Return Receipt Requested
7001 0360 0000 5313 0812
Lisa Denise Butner dba TriCounty Rock
TriCounty Rock
374 Murphy Road
Spruce Pine, NC 28777
RE: L&B Mine - Mining Permit No. 00-35
Yancey County - French Broad River Basin
Dear Ms. Butner:
We have reviewed the modification request your company submitted for the referenced mine site. In order for this
office to complete its review of the referenced project in accordance with N.C.G.S. §74-50 and §74-51 of the Mining
Act of 1971, please provide the additional or revised information in accordance with the following comments:
1. Please clearly identify the existing and proposed mine permit boundary.
2. Please clarify and provide proof that permits for watershed and flood zone development permits from
Yancey County cover the entire proposed mine permit boundary.
3. Streams, buffers, permit boundaries and contours are not easily distinguishable. Please provide a color
map similar to the last permitted map received February 1, 2021 or consider changing line weights or
symbology to make the map more legible.
4. Please refer to Section D of the mine permit application and provide a reclamation map that clearly
illustrates the reclamation plan for the entire site. The map should clearly illustrate the post mining use
of the entire site. It should also include all italicized items listed in the application.
5. Please provide a reclamation map showing post mining contours and cross sections.
6. Please provide a map showing the proposed state of the site once the riparian buffers have been repaired.
7. Please clearly label and indicate on the mine map the lay down yard identified in question D.6 of the
mine permit application.
Please clarify the screening activity on site. The narrative in the cover letter states that there will be
wet screening, however the response in C.3 of the application states that there is no washing.
9. Please clarify how mining is occurring below the water table without dewatering.
10. Please clearly identify and label on the mine map all structures on the mine map that are 300 ft from
the permitted and proposed excavation.
11. Please provide proof, such as copy of the signed return receipts from certified mail, that Doris Darlene
Hollfield has been properly notified.
D E Q North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 North Salisbury Street 1 1612 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
NORhI CAROLINA -
oaaatunemaienmronmenmiuuality /`� 919.707.9200

Certified Mail
Ms. Butner
Page 2
12. Your response to C.3.b states that there will be no discharge of water from the permitted area. Please
clarify where the wash water from the wet screen is going to be discharged. Please clarify where the
proposed sediment basin is discharged.
Please note, this office may request additional information, not included in this letter, as the mining application
review progresses. Be advised that our review cannot be completed until all of the items listed above have been
fully addressed.
In order to complete the processing of your application, please forward two (2) copies of the requested information
to my attention at the following address:
Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
Department of Environmental Quality
1612 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1612
If hand delivering or delivering by shipping company (e.g., FedEx, UPS), please deliver to our physical address:
Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources
Department of Environmental Quality
512 N. Salisbury Street, 5th Floor
Raleigh, NC 27604
As required by 15A NCAC 513.0113, you are hereby advised that you have 180 days from the date of your receipt
of this letter to submit all of the requested information. If you are unable to meet this deadline and wish to request
additional time, you must submit information, in writing, to the Director clearly indicating why the deadline cannot
be met and request that an extension of time be granted. If an extension of time is not granted, a decision will be
made to grant or deny the mining permit based upon the information currently in the Department's files at the end
of the 180-day period.
Though the preceding statement cites the maximum time limit for your response, we encourage you to provide the
additional information requested by this letter as soon as possible. Your prompt response will help us to complete
processing your application sooner.
Please contact me at [phone] if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Adam Parr, PE
Assistant State Mining Engineer
cc: Ms. Shawna Riddle