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Environmental
Quality
PAT MCCRORY
Governor
DONALD R. VAN DER VAART
secmrary
Mr. Marc Hamel
Rail Project Development Manager
North Carolina Department of Transportation
1553 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1553
Dear Mr. Hamel:
November 3, 2015
Subject: EEP Mitigation Acceptance Letter:
P-4405UJ/K, Closure of Road Crossings with the NC Raikoad (NCRR), Orange County
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the Division of Mitigation Services (DMS) will provide the
compensatory stream and riparian wetland mitigation for the subject project. Based on the information supplied by
you on October 29, 2015, the impacts are located in CU 03020201 of the Neuse River basin in the Central Piedmont
(CP) Eco-Region, and are as follows:
Neuse
03020201
CP
Impacts
*Some of the stream and/or
for details.
Stream
Cold Cool Warm
0 0 274.0
Wetlands
�Pan� Non- Coastal
Riparian Marsh
Buffer (Sq. Ft.)
Zone 1 � Zone 2
0.15 � 0 � 0 I 0 I 0
may be proposed to be mitigated at a 1:1 mitigation ratio. See pemut application
This impact and associated mitigation need were under projected by the NCDOT in the 2015 impact data.
DMS will commit to implement sufficient compensatory stream and riparian wetland mitigation credits to offset the
impacts associated with this project as detem�ined by the regulatory agencies using the delivery timeline listed in
Section F3.c.iii of the In-Lieu Fee Instrument dated July 28, 2010. If the above referenced impact amounts are
revised, then this mitigation acceptance letter will no longer be valid and a new mitigation acceptance letter will be
required from DMS.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Beth Harmon at 919-707-8420.
Sincerely,
James , tanfill
Credit Management Supervisor
cc: Mr. David Bailey, USACE — Raleigh Regulatory Field Office
Mr. Dave Wanucha, NCDWR — Winston-Salem Office
Ms. Linda Fitzpatrick, NCDOT — PDEA
File: P-4405I / J / K
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