20210730_ADI

ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
BRIAN WRENN
Director
Certified Mail
Return Receipt Requested
7019 1120 0002 0065 1238
Vincenzo LaBarbera
Landsdown Earth and Pipe, Inc.
7406 Concord Highway
Monroe NC 28110
RE: Northwest Name
Mining Permit No. 10-82
Brunswick County
Cape Fear River Basin
Dear Mr. LaBarbera:
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
July 30, 2021
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. Please provide a Jurisdictional Determination by the US Army Corps of Engineers for the wetlands.
This is required to determine whether the buffers proposed are sufficient to protect the wetlands.
2. Please provide a dewatering estimated withdrawal rate. Dewatering by pumping from one area of the
mine to another area is considered dewatering and will need to be evaluated for impact to groundwater.
Please clarify the response to question 12 on page 12 of the mine permit application. The response
indicates that no fuel tanks, solvents, or other chemical reagents will be stored onsite, then continues to
explain that fuel tanks already exist and will be stored onsite. Please clearly indicate and label on the
mine map the location of these storage facilities.
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.
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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Certified Mail
Mr. LaBarbera
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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 513.0113, 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
Assistant State Mining Engineer
cc: Mr. Dan Sams, PE