20041350 Ver 1_Other Agency Comments_20040804

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
WILMINGTON DISTRICT
Action ID. 200430955 County: Transylvania USGS Quad: Pisgah Forest
GENERAL PERMIT (REGIONAL AND NATIONWIDE) VERIFICATION
Property Owner / Authorized Agent: North Carolina Department of Transportation
Address: Attn: J.D. Metcalfe, PE
178 Henry Bird Road
Whittier, North Carolina 28789
Telephone No.: [phone]
Size and location of project (water body, road name/number, town, etc.): The project is located at Bridges 140 (SR
1501) and 141 (SR 1500), over Bryson Creek, approximately 2.3 miles west of Etowah, Transylvania County, North
Carolina.
Description of activity: The project includes impacts to 20 linear feet of perennial stream, Bryson Creek, (10 feet at
each bridge) to replace and widen Bridges 140 and 141. Impacts are associated with the extension of the timber
bulkheads acid wingwalls on the downstream sides of each bridge. The new bridges will be supported by new
timber mudsill footings placed adjacent to the existing footings.
Applicable Law: X Section 404 (Clean Water Act, 33 USC 1344)
_ Section 10 (Rivers and Harbors Act, 33 USC 403)
Authorization: Regional General Permit Number: 198200031
Nationwide Permit Number:
Special Conditions
a) All work authorized by this permit must be performed in strict compliance with the plans received in this office
on April 26, 2004, which are a part of this permit. Any modification to these plans must be approved by the US
Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) prior to implementation.
b) Except as authorized by this permit or any USACE approved modification to this permit, no excavation, fill or
mechanized land-clearing activities shall take place at any time in the construction or maintenance of this project,
within waters or wetlands. This permit does not authorize temporary placement or double handling of excavated
or fill material within waters or wetlands outside the permitted area. This prohibition applies to all borrow and fill
activities connected with this project.
c) Except as specified in the plans attached to this permit, no excavation, fill or mechanized land-clearing activities
shall take place at any time in the construction or maintenance of this project, in such a manner as to impair
normal flows and circulation patterns within waters or wetlands or to reduce the reach of waters or wetlands.
d) All conditions of the attached North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission letter of May 25, 2004 are hereby
incorporated as special conditions of this permit.
Your work is authorized by the above referenced permit provided it is accomplished in strict accordance with the
attached conditions and your submitted plans. Any violation of the attached conditions or deviation from your submitted
plans may subject the permittee to a stop work order, a restoration order and/or appropriate legal action.
Corps Regulatory Official (Initial): A-59
This verification will remain valid until the expiration date identified below unless the nationwide authorization is
modified, suspended or revoked. If, prior to the expiration date identified below, the nationwide permit authorization is
reissued and/or modified, this verification will remain valid until the expiration date identified below, provided it
complies with all modifications. If the nationwide permit authorization expires or is suspended, revoked, or is modified,
such that the activity would no longer comply with the terms and conditions of the nationwide permit, activities which
have commenced (i.e., are under construction) or are under contract to commence in reliance upon the nationwide permit,
will remain authorized provided the activity is completed within twelve months of the date of the nationwide permit's
expiration, modification or revocation, unless discretionary authority has been exercised on a case-by-case basis to
modify, suspend or revoke the authorization.
Activities subject to Section 404 (as indicated above) may also require an individual Section 401 Water Quality
Certification. You should contact the NC Division of Water Quality (telephone [phone]) to determine Section 401
requirements.
For activities occurring within the twenty coastal counties subject to regulation under the Coastal Area Management
Act (CAMA), prior to beginning work you must contact the N.C. Division of Coastal Management.
This Department of the Army verification does not relieve the permittee of the responsibility to obtain any other
required Federal, State or local approvals/permits.
If there are any questions regarding this verification, any of the conditions of the Permit, or the Corps of Engineers
regulatory program, please contact Angie Pennock at [phone] ext. 226.
Corps Regulatory Official lily pzaunal- Date: 4 August 2004
Expiration Date of Verification: 4 August 2006
SURVEY PLATS, FIELD SKETCH, WETLAND DELINEATION FORMS, PROJECT PLANS, ETC., MUST BE
ATTACHED TO THE FILE COPY OF THIS FORM, IF REQUIRED OR AVAILABLE.
Copy Furnished:
North Carolina Department of Transportation
Attn: Mark Davis
253 Webster Road
Sylva, North Carolina 228779
Division of Water Quality
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Attn: Brian Wrenn
1650 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650