20210615_ADI_07-01

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ROY COOPER
Governor
DIONNE DELLI-GATTI � •
Secretary
BRIAN WRENN NORTH CAROLINA
Director Environmental Quality
June 16,2021
Certified Mail
Return Receipt Requested
Certified Mail#7016 2140 0000 4368 3391
Mr. Jeffrey C. Furness
PCS Phosphate Company, Inc
1530 NC Hwy 306 South
Aurora,NC 27806
RE: Aurora Phosphate Mine
Mining Permit No. 07-01
Beaufort
Tar-Pamilco River Basin
Dear Mr. Furness:
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 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. The application states the Company wants to add 1,232 acres to the permitted and affected areas. When
these amounts are added to the amounts listed in your current permit, the totals come to 17,744
permitted acres and 16,797.75 affected acres.
Page 5 of the application states that the affected acreage will be 15,206 acres. DWG 1 states the Total
mining area is 17,847 acres but does not state what the total affected area is.
a. What are the correct amounts for permitted and affected areas? How were these amounts
determined?
b. Please supply a new DWG-I showing the correct amounts of permitted and affected areas.
2. Not all of the affected neighbors appear to have been notified.N.C.G.S. §74-50(b 1)(2)states:
(bl) At the time of an application for a new mining permit or for a modification of a mining permit
to add land to the permitted area, the applicant or operator shall make a reasonable effort,satisfactory
to the Department, to notes
(2) The owners of record of land adjoining that lies within 1,000 feet of the permit boundaries.
Page 27 and page 28 of the application supplies a list of the people and where their property lies in
relation to the expansion. The list is far from being complete. Furthermore,there are several properties
shown on page 28 that do not state who owns them.
a. Please supply proof that owners of record of land adjoining the permit boundary or that lie within
1,000 feet of the permit boundary but are adjacent to PCS property boundary were notified.
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512 North Salisbury Street 11612 Mail Service Center I Raleigh.North Carolina 2 769 9-1612
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b. Please supply a map(s) showing where the properties of the owners lie in relation to the permit
boundary. It would also be helpful if the map(s) delineates where the 1000-feet outside of the
permit boundary lines.
c. If there are property owners on the new map(s) that you did not notify which are adjacent to the
permit boundary, please explain why.
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
As required by 15A NCAC 513.01 13, 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(919) 707-9228 if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
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David Miller
State Mining Engineer
cc: Samir Dumper, PE, Regional Engineer