FW_ _External_ _Mining Permit 92-10_ Please reject Wake Stone Corp's mining permit on Odd Fellows Tract

Johnson, Robert E
From: Sams, Dan
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 9:42 PM
To: NCMiningProgram
Subject: FW: [External] [Mining Permit 92-10] Please reject Wake Stone Corp's mining permit
on Odd Fellows Tract
From: Paul Vrouwenvelder [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 9:33 PM
To: Sams, Dan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [External] [Mining Permit 92-10] Please reject Wake Stone Corp's mining permit on Odd Fellows Tract
l request that the NO DEQ deiny the Wake Stone Corpo ratio in's mi16ling
permit 92 10 and reinstate the Sunset Clause from 1981.
Instead, l wound like sale of the Old F`61Hows tract to The Conservation
Fund to proceed so that the Ilaind cain Ibe Ipreseirved for the Ipuirpose of
Niking and imouintallin bilking tral10s.
As a Iloingfime iresident of the RaIleigh Durham Chapell KH imetro area, ll
Ihave witinessed the ineed to (preserve our area's (precious gireein space.
Green space, oince (paved or mined, is inot coming Ibaclk, and gireein space
is Ipairticullairly (precious liin uirbain areas and train sportatio in corridoirs, such as
we Ihave aIloing l 40. Umstead State Park and IL.alke Crabtree are Ipubllic
spaces that wound Ibe inegafiv6ly lImpacted Iby mi16ling operations, and this liin
itself is a ireasoin to deiny Wake Stone's Ipeirmit. (Ref: Section '74 51 (d) of
the 1971 Mi6ling Act (Mine Safety and Heafth Act of North Cairofina): DEQ
imay deiny the Ipeirmit upoin fiin6ing: (5) That the operation will Ihave a
sig16ificaintly adverse effect oin the Ipuirposes of a publicly owined Ipairk,
forest or irecreation area.)
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