20080712 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20080421

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Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
April 21, 2008
CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Phoenix Creek Development, LLC
Attn: Gordon Sadler
280 Settlers Trail
Mars Hill, North Carolina 28754
Subject Property: Phoenix Creek Subdivision
Permitting Fee
® PERMITTING FEE MISSING
Dear Mr. Sadler:
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
DWQ Project # 08-0712
Buncombe County
On April 18, 2008, the Division of Water Quality(DWQ) received your application dated April 11, 2008
for the above referenced project, Please provide the following so that we may continue to review your
project.
Additional Information Requested:
® Permitting fee amount. Please note that beginning July 1, 2007, the N.C. General Assembly
passed an increase for application fees for all regulatory programs administered by DWQ. The
director of DWQ determined that the fee increase would specifically become effective for the
401 Program on September 1, 2007.
The fee for applications is ,$240 for projects impacting less than an acre of wetland and less
than 150 linear feet of streams whether intermittent or perennial). For projects impacting one
or more acres of wetland or 150 or more feet of streams (whether intermittent or perennial),
the fee is $570. Please remit $570 to begin the review and approval process.
Please contact the DWQ within three" weeks of the date of this letter to verify that you have received this
letter and that you remain interested in continuing to pursue permitting of your project and will be
providing the DWQ the requested information at a later date. Please contact this office in writing. If we
do not hear from you within three weeks, we will assume that you no longer want to pursue this project
and we will consider the project as returned.
This letter only addresses the application review and does not authorize any impacts to wetlands, waters
or protected buffers. Please be aware that any impacts requested within your application are not
authorized (at this time) by the DWQ. Please call Mr. Ian McMillan or me at 919-733-1786 if you have
any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter.
401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] / FAX [phone] / Internet: http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands
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cc: Kevin Barnett, DWQ Asheville Regional Office
USACE Asheville Regulatory Field Office
Environmental Services, Inc., Charles Johnston, 3661 Alamance Rd., Burlington, NC 27215
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Filename: 080712Phoen ixCreekSD(Buncombe)_Hold_NeedFee