20161033 Ver 1_Waterstone DMS acceptance letter_20161031

PAT MCCRORY
Governor
DONALD R. VAN DER VAART
Secreta?i
Mitigation Services
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
October 28, 2016
Mitch Brown
Lennar Carolinas, LLC
909 Aviation Parkway Suite 700
Morrisville, NC 27560 Expiration of Acceptance: April 28, 2017
Project: Waterstone County: Orange
The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the NCDEQ Division of Mitigation Services (DMS) is willing to accept
payment for compensatory mitigation for impacts associated with the above referenced project as indicated in the
table below. Please note that this decision does not assure that participation in the DMS in-lieu fee mitigation
program will be approved by the permit issuing agencies as mitigation for project impacts. It is the responsibility
of the applicant to contact permitting agencies to determine if payment to the DMS will be approved. You must
also comply with all other state, federal or local government permits, regulations or authorizations associated with
the proposed activity including G.S. § 143-214.11.
This acceptance is valid for six months from the date of this letter and is not transferable. If we have not
received a copy of the issued 404 Permit/401 Certification/CAMA permit within this time frame,this
acceptance will expire. It is the applicant's responsibility to send copies of the permits to DMS. Once DMS
receives a copy of the permit(s)an invoice will be issued based on the required mitigation in that permit and
payment must be made prior to conducting the authorized work. The amount of the in-lieu fee to be paid by an
applicant is calculated based upon the Fee Schedule and policies listed at http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/eep.
Based on the information supplied by you in your request to use the DMS, the impacts that may require
compensatory mitigation are summarized in the following table. The amount of mitigation required and assigned
to DMS for this impact is determined by permitting agencies and may exceed the impact amounts shown below.
CU Location Stream(feet) Wetlands(acres) Buffer I Buffer II
River Basin (8-digit HUC) (Sq. Ft.) (Sq. Ft.)
Cold Cool Warm Riparian Non-Riparian Coastal Marsh
Impact Neuse 03020201 0 0 0 0.53 0 0 0 0
Upon receipt of payment, DMS will take responsibility for providing the compensatory mitigation. The mitigation
will be performed in accordance with the In-Lieu Fee Program instrument dated July 28, 2010 and 15A NCAC
02B .0295 as applicable. Thank you for your interest in the DMS in-lieu fee mitigation program. If you have any
questions or need additional information, please contact Kelly Williams at(919) 707-8915.
Since
s. B Stanfill
t Management Supervisor
cc: Tomas Will, agent
State of North Carolina Environmental Quality Mitigation Services
1652 Mail Service Center I Raleigh.NC 27699-1652 1 217 W.Jones Street,Suite 3000
919 707 9976 T