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ELIZABETH S.BISER
Secretary
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WILLIAM E.TOBY VINSON,JR. NORTH CAROLINA
Interim Director Environmental Quality
October 25, 2023
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7022 0410 0003 1130 7595
Dustin Faulkner
Barnhill Contracting Company
PO Box 7948
Rocky Mount, 27804
RE: Small Sand Pit
Chowan County
Chowan River Basin
Dear Mr. Faulkner:
We have reviewed the application 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 provide proof of registration with the Division of Water Resources Groundwater Management
Branch for your proposed water withdrawal.
2. Please provide additional details for your Erosion & Sediment Control Measures. Please provide
dimensions for your sediment basin. Please clearly identify and label on the mine map the vegetated
earthen berm, silt fence, diversion ditches, and check dams. Please include a typical detail for those
items.
3. 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.
4. Please clarify your pumping plan. Your response in question C.3.b states that you will pump to an
existing pond. Please clarify if you intend to pump first to the sediment basin,then to the existing pond.
5. Please provide a pumping operations and maintenance plan (O&M) for the proposed pumping
activities.
6. Please clarify the label on the mine map for the mine permit boundary. You've indicated an undisturbed
buffer, however there is a note and leader that identifies the mine permit boundary as the limits of
disturbance.
7. Please provide proof of notice to the adjoining landowner Joseph Wallace Godwin III.
8. Please provide proof of application for your NPDES non-discharge permit for mine dewatering.
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
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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(919) 707-9220 if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Adam Parr,PE
State Mining Engineer
cc: Mr. Samir Dumpor,PE