FW_ _External_ _Mining Permit 92-10_ DEQ should deny mining permit 92-10 modification to stop the quarry next to Umstead State Park

Johnson, Robert E
From: Sams, Dan
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 11:56 AM
To: NCMiningProgram
Subject: FW: [External] [Mining Permit 92-10] DEQ should deny mining permit 92-10
modification to stop the quarry next to Umstead State Park
From: Matthew Takas [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 10:37 AM
To: Sams, Dan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [External] [Mining Permit 92-10] DEQ should deny mining permit 92-10 modification to stop the quarry next to
Umstead State Park
This Ipeirmit should Ibe denied inow and unto Ipeirpetulity. The current stone
quarry, rejected Iby the Department of Natu14l Resources lin 1981, was a
use that just doesn't Ibelloing here lin this sanctuary. The Department deini4l
was overturned Iby a lindustry frieindlly Miinlling Commission. The result is a
quarry.
Despite the objections of the Department and the IpubBlic it was Ipeirmitted.
There was one con6tion... a 50 year sunset Iprovlisioin that required the
mine to close Iby 2032 and the land added to the Ipairk.
For 30 years Ibotlh the department and the mine accepted that agreement.
Then lin 2011, the mine operator clallimed he just "discovered a clerical)
error". Seems he found a old copy of the mi6ling commissioners report that
said later vs sooneir and asked that the one word Ibe chainged. The director
of inatuir4ll resources Ikinew Ibetteir; Jairnes &imoins had firsthand IknoWedge
of the Ipeirmit and rejected this clever clerical) argument, he renewed the
permit lin 2011 with sooner, as it had always Ibeen with the sunset clause.
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After he was goine, llin 2018 a inew acting director uii 37 years of the
�permit and Ibought the argument, wiping away the suinset clause as just a
cleidcall imistalke. He also approved a chainge that gutted the Ibuffeirs
protecting the creelk at the same time. The chainge was completed llin just
weeks with ino notice to the Ipubllic, or state parks! No notice to anyone Ibut
the mine operator. This is just flat out wiroing and ino doubt imoiney
exchainged hands llin some form or ainotheir for this to Ihave happened!
Now the operator waints to destroy 106 acres of forest oin the otheir side of
the creelk, Iprovlide smaEleir Ibuffeirs and mine some moire.
But this is Ipulbllic Ilaind, our Ilaind.
Uinfoirtuii the RIDU Airport authority board is the cairetalkeir of it, and
they agreed to this destruction for a 5% cut of the ireveinues. Public Ilaind
destroyed, llin the eind the miiii company gets $400,000,000.00 llin sales,
5% for the Ipulbllic. We get the h6le... llin our Ipairk.
Flease do eveirytNling you cain to reject this application! This is inot right for
the Ipairk and inot ir9ight for the citizens that utifize that Ipairk for what it is
meant to Ibe .... a Ipeacefull sanctuary llin the midst of all the lhustle and
bustle of the area that cain Ibe ain escape inot fair from home.
Thaii you for your coin sid eiration and please do right Iby your constituents
who are agallinst this proposition.
M
matthew.takasCcD_qmail.com
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