I-3306 A 2022-06-21 DMS Mitigation Acceptance

ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
MARC RECKTENWALD
Director
Mr. Philip S. Harris, III, P.E.
Environmental Analysis Unit
North Carolina Department of Transportation
1598 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1598
Dear Mr. Harris:
Subject: Mitigation Acceptance Letter:
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
June 21, 2022
I-3306A, I-40 Improvements from I-85 to Durham County Line, Orange County
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality — Division
of Mitigation Services (NCDEQ-DMS) will provide the wetland and buffer mitigation for the subject project. Based on the
information received from you on June 20, 2022, the wetland impacts are located in CU 03030002 of the Cape Fear River
basin and the buffer impacts are located in CU 03020201 Upper Falls of the Neuse River basin in the Central Piedmont
(CP) Eco-Region, and are as follows:
Cape Fear
03030002
Stream
Wetlands
Buffer (Sq. Ft.)
Cold
Cool
Warm
Riparian
Non -Riparian
Coastal Marsh
Zone 1
Zone 2
Impacts (feet/acres)
0
0
0
0.200
0
0
0
0
All buffer mitigation requests and approvals are administrated through the Riparian Restoration Buffer Fund. The
NCDOT will be responsible to ensure that appropriate compensation for the buffer mitigation will be provided in the agreed
upon method of fund transfer. Upon receipt of the NCDWR's Buffer Authorization Certification, DMS will transfer funds
from the NCDOT 2984 Fund into the Riparian Restoration Buffer Fund. Upon completion of the transfer payment,
NCDOT will have complete its riparian buffer mitigation responsibility for TIP I-3306A.
Neuse
03020201
Upper Falls Lake
Stream
Wetlands
Buffer (Sq. Ft.)
Cold
Cool
Warm
Riparian
Non -Riparian
Coastal Marsh
Zone 1
Zone 2
Impacts (feet/acres)
0
0
0
0
0
0
571.000
0
This mitigation acceptance letter replaces the mitigation acceptance letter issued on July 29, 2021. If you
have any questions or need additional information, please contact Ms. Beth Harmon at 919-707-8420.
Sincerely,
for Jame Stanfill
DMS Asset Management Supervisor
cc: Mr. Monte Matthews, USACE — Raleigh Regulatory Field Office
Ms. Amy Chapman, NCDWR
Mr. Brad Chilton, NCDOT — EAU
File: I-3306A
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