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April 16, 2008
Stanly News and Press
237 W. North Street
Albemarle, NC 28001
Attn: Legal Ad Department
Dear Sir or Madam:
Re: Public Notices
Please publish the attached Public Notice one time in the sections set aside for Legal Advertisements in
your newspaper. The publication should run on or before April 17, 2008. Please send the invoice for the
publications and three copies of the affidavit of publication to the address given below. Payment cannot be
processed without the affidavit of publication.
N.C. Division of Water Quality
Attn: John Dorney
Water Quality Section
2321 Crabtree Boulevard
Raleigh, NC 27604
If you have any questions, please telephone me at 919-733-9646.
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cc: Don Laton, NC Attorney General's ffice -Environmental Section
Kathy Matthews, US Environmental Protection Agency
Alan Johnson, Mooresville Regional DWQ Office
Ken Averitte, Fayetteville Regional DWQ Office
Mike Lawyer, Fayetteville Regional DWQ Office
Jim Mead, NC Division of Water Resources
Central Files
File Copy
William Bunker, V.P. APGI Hydro Operations, Alcoa Generating, Inc., 300 North Hall Rd, Alcoa, TN
37701-2516
Randall Benn, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae, LLP, 1875 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 1200,
Washington, DC 20009-5728
Randall Tinsley, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey and Leonard, LLP, P.O. Box 26000,
Greensboro, NC 27420
Thomas Griffin, Parker Poe, Three Wachovia Center, Suite 3000. 401 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
28202-1935
Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Coleen H. Sullins., Director
Division of Water Quality
N. C. Division of Water Quality, 401 Wetlands Certification Unit,
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1650 (Mailing Address)
2321 Crabtree Blvd., Raleigh, NC 27604-2260 (Location)
[phone] (phone), 919-733-6893 (fax), (http:l/h2o.enr.state.nc.uslncwetlands

NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
401 Certification for High Rock Reservoir, Tuckertown Reservoir, Narrows Reservoir and Falls
Reservoir for FERC relicensing
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. has applied to the North Carolina Division
of Water Quality for a Water Quality Certification pursuant to Section 401 of the Federal Clean Water Act and
Water Quality Commission rules in 15A NCAC 2H .0500. The activity for this Certification is sought to issue a
401 Certification for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project
(FERC No. 2197) in Stanly County for dams at High Rock Reservoir, Tuckertown Reservoir, Narrows
Reservoir and Falls Reservoir. The application for the project includes plans to address dissolved oxygen issues
in the Yadkin River downstream of the dams, modify the minimum low flow in the river and conduct flow
monitoring in the river. In addition, water quality-related items in the Relicensing Settlement Agreement dated
February 2007 are also proposed to be incorporated into the 401 Certification as well as a condition related to
the removal of sedimentation at the City of Salisbury water intake on the Yadkin River. Further, the 401
Certification issued by the Division on November 16, 2007 is hereby revoked in accordance with 15A NCAC
2H .0507(d)(2) because of a change of the conditions under which that 401 Certification was issued. The
change of conditions is a determination by the Division that the prior public notice of this 401 Certification
apparently did not conform with the public notice provisions of 15A NCAC 2H .0503. The Division plans to
reissue a Certification for this project after the public comment period has closed and after we have considered
all information submitted to the Division in response to this Public Notice.
The public is invited to comment on the above-mentioned application to the Division of Water Quality.
Comments shall be in writing and shall be received by the Division no later than May 2, 2008. Please refer to
DWQ Project Number 2007-0812 in your response. Comments should be sent to the N.C. Division of Water
Quality, Wetlands and Stormwafer Branch, 2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Raleigh, NC 27604, Attn: John Dorney
(919-733-9646 Fax: [phone] or via email at [e-mail]). A copy of the application is on
file at the Division office at Mooresville, North Carolina 28115 (Mooresville Regional Office fax 704-663-
6040) during normal business hours and may be inspected by the public.
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
N.C. Division of Water Quality
DATE: April 16, 2008