NCG060282_ROS Approval_20191230

ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
S. DANIEL SMITH
Director
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
December 30, 2019
Murphy -Brown LLC dba Smithfield Hog Production Division / Bladenboro Feed Mill
Attn: M. Kevin Weston, Environmental Resource Specialist
PO Box 856
Warsaw, NC 28398
Subject: Representative Outfall.Status Request
Smithfield Hog Production Division / Bladenboro Feed Mill
NPDES Stormwater Permit NCG060000, Certificate of Coverage NCG060282
Bladen County
Dear Mr. Weston:
The Fayetteville Regional Office of the Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources (DEMLR) has reviewed your
request received on December 27, 2019 for a determination that stormwater discharge outfall (SDO) 3, which was
previously approved on October 26, 2015 to be representative of stormwater outfalls 1, 2, 4 and 5, also be granted
representative outfall status for newly added stormwater discharge outfalls 6 and 7. Based on the information and updated
site map provided, we are approving this request. In accordance with 40 CFR §122.21(g)(7), you are authorized to
monitor stormwater discharge outfall 3 as a representative outfall. This approval is effective with the next sampling event.
Please be reminded that the permit requires Qualitative (visual) Monitoring to be performed at all stormwater discharge
outfalls, regardless of representative outfall status.
Please remember that any actions you initiate in response to benchmark exceedances as directed in the tiered response
provisions of your permit must address all drainage areas represented by SDO 3, where appropriate.
Please append this letter to your Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SPPP) to document that representative outfall
status has been approved. If changes in drainage areas, structures, processes, storage practices, or other activities occur
that significantly alter the basis of this approval, representative outfall status is no longer valid. In that case, you should
resume sampling at all SDOs, or reapply to this office for representative outfall status based on updated information. If
you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at [phone] or via e-mail at [e-mail].
Sincerely,
Michael Lawyer, CPSWQ
Environmental Program Consultant
DEMLR
cc: Allen King, Feed Mill Manager — Bladenboro Feed Mill (via e-mail)
Suzanne McCoy, Stormwater Program Assistant — DEMLR Stormwater Program (via e-mail)
FRO — DEMLR, Stormwater Files
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Energy. Mineral and Land Resources
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