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SUMMARY OF NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEVELOP A BROWNFIELDS PROPERTY Brownfields Property Name: Former MillerCoors Brownfields Project Number: 24046-20-079 Pursuant to the North Carolina Brownfields Property Reuse Act (the “Act”) authorized by North Carolina General
Statutes (NCGS) § 130A-310.30 through 130A-310.40, and specifically pursuant to NCGS § 130A-310.34, Nestle Purina
Petcare Company, as Prospective Developer, has filed with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
(“DEQ”) a Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property (“Brownfields Property”) located at 863 East Meadow
Road, Eden, Rockingham County. The Brownfields Property is the former site of MillerCoors where beer production,
packaging, and distribution occurred until 2016. The Brownfields Property consists of approximately 1,358 acres.
Environmental contamination exists on the Brownfields Property in soil and groundwater. Nestle Purina Petcare Company
has committed itself to redevelop the Brownfields Property for no uses other than industrial, office, warehouse, parking,
retail, open space, amenity space, restaurant, entertainment, brewery, food production facility, or solar farm, and with prior
written DEQ approval, other commercial and recreational uses (with appropriate measures as required by DEQ). The Notice
of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property includes: (1) a proposed Brownfields Agreement between DEQ and Nestle
Purina Petcare 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 at the Eden Library, located at 598 S. Pierce
Street Eden, North Carolina 27288 (phone number 336-623-3168); or at the offices of the N.C. Brownfields Redevelopment
Section, 217 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC or by contacting Shirley Liggins at that address, at shirley.liggins@ncdenr.gov,
or at (919) 707-8383. 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 24046-20-079 into the search bar at the following web
address: https://edocs.deq.nc.gov/WasteManagement/
The Act requires a public comment period of at least 30 days. The first day of public comment is defined as the day
after which all of the following public notice tasks have occurred: 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 public comments may be submitted to DEQ within 30 days after the public comment period begins. Written requests
for a public meeting may be submitted to DEQ within 21 days after the public comment period begins. These periods will
start no sooner than August 4, 2023, and will end no sooner than the later of: 1) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after that; or
2) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after completion of the latest of the three (3) above-referenced tasks, if such completion
occurs later than the date stated herein. All public comments and public meeting requests should be addressed as follows:
Bruce Nicholson, Chief Brownfields Redevelopment Section Division of Waste Management NC Department of Environmental Quality 1646 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1646Rede