HomeMy WebLinkAbout19052_Burnsville Hosiery Mill SNI_2020_08_12SUMMARY OF NOTICE OF
INTENT TO REDEVELOP A BROWNFIELDS PROPERTY
Site Name: Former Burnsville Hosiery Mill
Brownfields Project Number: 19052-15-00
Pursuant to NCGS § 130A-310.34, The Winter Star Company, as Prospective Developer, has filed with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) a Notice of Intent to
Redevelop a Brownfields Property (“Property”) in Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina. The Brownfields Property, which is the former site of a hosiery mill that manufactured boot
socks for the United States Army and consists of 3.609 acres is located at 54 Ferguson Hill Road. Environmental contamination exists on the Brownfields Property in soil and groundwater.
The Winter Star Company has committed itself to office, industrial, parking and, with prior written DEQ approval, other commercial uses on the Brownfields Property. The Notice of
Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property includes: (1) a proposed Brownfields Agreement between DEQ and The Winter Star Company, which in turn includes (a) a map showing the location
of the Property, (b) a description of the contaminants involved and their concentrations in the media of the Property, (c) the above-stated description of the intended future use of
the Brownfields Property, and (d) proposed investigation and remediation; and (2) a proposed Notice of Brownfields Property prepared in accordance with NCGS § 130A-310.35.
The full Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property may be reviewed online at the DEQ public record database, Laserfiche, by entering the project number 19052-15-00 into the
search bar at the following web address: http://edocs.deq.nc.gov/WasteManagement.
Written public comments may be submitted to DEQ within 30 days after the latest of the following dates: the date this Notice is (1) published in a newspaper of general circulation
serving the area in which the Brownfields Property is located, (2) conspicuously posted at the Brownfields Property, and (3) mailed or delivered to each owner of property contiguous
to the Brownfields Property. Written requests for a public meeting may be submitted to DEQ within 21 days after the period for written public comments begins. Those periods will start
no sooner than September 9, 2020, and will end on the later of: a) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after that; or b) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after completion of the latest of the
three (3) above-referenced dates. All public comments and public meeting requests should be addressed as follows:
Mr. Bruce Nicholson
Brownfields Program Manager
Division of Waste Management
NC Department of Environmental Quality
1646 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1646