20070812 Ver 1_Public Comments_20080505 (919)

request for extension for AGPI 401 comments
Subject: request for extension for AGPI 401 comments
From: "Hope Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 17:06:09 -0400
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Dear Mr. Dorney,
Due to a variety of circumstances, including the fact that your address info for our
organization needs further correction, I have only seen the notice of the comment period for
the draft AGPI 401 certification this week. This email is to request an extension of at least one
week for preparation of comments, particularly as neither of you was in the office this week
to respond to my phone calls or requests for access to documents, as well as to ask for a full
correction of my address information for your public notice list. There are no documents or
announcement of this public comment period on DWQ's website that I was able to find.
I also note that your memo on this public comment period is dated April 16th and that
the notice for the Stanly County paper was only to be published on April 17th, which would
provide a comment period of only two weeks. It was my understanding that the public
comment period was required to be 30 days, and that the date of publication was the point at
which that 30 day period was to begin. Mr. John Hennessee, with whom I also left a message
called me back and said that was not the case, that there were other things that triggered the
start of the 30 day period. If the date of publication in a local paper is, indeed the point at
which a public comment period begins, and the required period is 30 days, that would mean
that the published comment period could not end before May 17th.
Please clarify this, and inform me by email if the comment period will be extended
and my comments will be accepted as timely. Mr. Hennessee had offered to contact you
personally to ask about this, but I felt it was much more appropriate, and in keeping with the
mission of CWFNC, that this not be done as a personal favor to me, but that it be done in a
manner that other folks with inadequate notice would also be able to make use of the
additional time to prepare comments.
Many thanks for your kind attention to these requests,
Hope Taylor
Executive Director
Clean Water for NC
2009 Chapel Hill Rd.
Durham, NC 27707
[phone]
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