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Ridings, Rob
From Ridings Rob
Sent Tuesday May 15 2012 8 29 AM
To Montague Heather W Alsmeyer Eric C SAW (Eric C Alsmeyer @usace army mil)
Cc Capehart Cadmus Poole Brenna E Murray Christopher A
Subject RE B 4522 re initiation of Section 7 consultation
Heather
No I don t feel the need to modify the permits since impacts are actually going down I will dust submit your revisions to
the file as a layout change for the record
Thanks
Rob
From Montague, Heather W
Sent Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8 11 AM
To Ridings, Rob, Alsmeyer, Eric C SAW (Eric C Alsmeyer@usace army mil)
Cc Capehart, Cadmus, Poole, Brenna E, Murray, Christopher A
Subject RE B 4522, re initiation of Section 7 consultation
In my email from yesterday I forgot to reference DWQ Project No 20110145 and ver 2 (issued 02/18/11 WQC and
Tar Pamlico Buffer Authorization)
USACE Action ID 2007 03806 (issued 03/29/11 NWP 3 and
13)
Note proposed temporary stream impacts of 0 05ac (for work pad) have been reduced by this new proposal to involve
less than 0 01ac of temporary stream impacts (for use of barge and mats —with 10 x20 footprint of barge and stack of
mats to take up similar or less area) Since the location of the barge is different than the location of the original
proposed workpad on the south side of the river we need to know whether this current proposal would be covered
under the existing permits or would formal permit modifications be necessary from the NCDWQ or USACE Thanks
From Montague, Heather W
Sent Monday, May 14, 2012 4 30 PM
To Ridings, Rob, Alsmeyer, Eric C SAW (Eric C Alsmeyer(ftsace army mil)
Cc Capehart, Cadmus Poole, Brenna E, Murray, Christopher A
Subject FW B 4522, re initiation of Section 7 consultation
Rob and Eric
Bridge replacement work is currently underway for Bridge No 102 over the Tar River on 1150 (Gooch s Mill Road) in
Granville County within the Tar Pamlico River Basin WBS No 33746 3 1 TIP B 4522 The contractor has removed the
existing in steam piles and concrete footers and work will soon commence on setting the steel girders The NCDOT had
previously provided a construction scenario that involved installation of temporary rip rap work pads in the Tar River A
portion of this temporary rip rap work pad was necessary to set the crane to install the long girders
The contractor for the project has proposed a different method for setting the girders They propose to install a 10 ft x
20 ft steel barge in the stream along the south streambank and wooden mats on fabric in the stream along the north
streambank Long steel mats will then be set on top of the barge and wooden mats to create a temporary bridge in
the Tar River The purpose of this revision is to allow truck carrying the steel girders to set on the steel mat bridge and

then cranes sitting on the adjacent upland floodplain will pick up the girders and properly set them in place on the
caps
This proposed revision does differ from the method previously proposed by the Department and changes the
depiction /footprint of the temporary fill In stream impact However this does reduce the amount of temporary fill in the
river and does eliminate the need for placement (and removal) of Class II rip rap in the river to set the girders which
reduces the overall impact to the streambed
Gary Jordan was presented with this information in order to re initiate the Section 7 consultation In turn he consulted
with Felix Davila of the FHWA and once obtaining approval was able to provide an amendment letter to the November
17 2009 Biological Opinion (see attached for this letter) Also attached within the same pdf file is the FHWA
correspondence For clarity I ve also attached the original versions of the drawings that are shown at the end of the
attached USFWS pdf file
Would this current proposal be covered under the existing permits or would formal permit modifications be necessary
from the NCDWQ or USACE please advise? Thanks
Heather Montague
NCDOT DIV 5 Environmental Specialist
[phone] office
[phone] cell
hwmontague @ncdot gov
From Murray, Christopher A
Sent Monday, May 14, 2012 3 58 PM
To Montague, Heather W
Subject FW B 4522, re initiation of Section 7 consultation
From Gary Jordan @fws cloy Imailto Gary Jordan@fws clovl
Sent Monday, May 14, 2012 2 07 PM k
To Murray, Christopher A, Eric C Alsmeyer @usace army mil, Wilson, Travis W
Subject cc B 4522, re initiation of Section 7 consultation
Gary Jordan
Fish and Wildlife Biologist
US Fish and Wildlife Service
PO Box 33726
Raleigh NC 27636 3726
Phone [phone] ext 32
Fax [phone]
ga[y iordan(cD-fws gov
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