24042_Standyne Corp_NFI_20230216

February 16, 2023

Sent Via Certified Mail and Email

Mr. Justin Mallon
Pamlico, LLC
813 Graham Street
Emporia, KS 66801
[e-mail]

Subject: Change to No Further Interest Status
Stanadyne Corporation
230 Clarks Neck Road
Washington, Beaufort County
Brownfields Project No. 24042-20-007

Dear Mr. Mallon:

Thank you for your initial interest in the North Carolina Brownfields Redevelopment
Section (NCBRS) for the above-referenced property. Your company, as the Prospective
Developer (PD), submitted a Brownfields Property Application (BPA) on August 19, 2020.
Following review of that BPA, you were found to be eligible, along with the property itself, for
continued evaluation for a brownfields agreement (BFA) under our standard track option. The
Letter of Eligibility (LOE) for this property was provided to you on September 24, 2020.

As specified in your LOE, the next step in the brownfields process following an
eligibility determination is to review available environmental assessment reports and address any
remaining data gaps with additional assessment. We reviewed a draft assessment work plan
entitled Work Plan for Environmental Services (Progress Environmental, October 5, 2021),
provided comments to you on this work plan on November 30, 2021, and conducted a site visit
on December 16, 2021 with your tenant representatives and environmental consultant. During
the site visit, we provided additional comments regarding proposed sampling locations, and
requested a revised assessment work plan. To date, we have yet to receive this revised work
plan, even after submitting follow on email requests on January 12, 2022, April 7, 2022, August
1, 2022, and November 2, 2022. It is now over a full year from when we issued our initial
comments on the draft work plan.

Obtaining a BFA requires that the PD provide the NCBRS with any information
necessary to ensure that the brownfields redevelopment is safe for the site’s stated reuse. Due to

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the inactivity on this project, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is
notifying you that it has updated the status of the referenced Brownfields Property from “Active
Eligible” to “No Further Interest” (NFI).

Although its previous brownfields active eligible status did not preclude a DEQ cleanup
program from seeking assessment or cleanup from parties responsible for the contamination on
the above-referenced property, as a result of this database status change, we are referring
oversight of this property to the appropriate DEQ cleanup program. While this status change to
NFI does not automatically make you a responsible party, depending on your status as a
responsible party under applicable law, various DEQ programs may or may not seek your
cooperation in addressing this site at a future date.

Please be aware that certain regulatory requirements apply to owners of contaminated
sites. You may have statutory obligations to provide notification of a contaminated site to DEQ
Inactive Hazardous Sites Branch (IHSB). For more information about applicable requirements
for inactive hazardous sites, you may contact Janet MacDonald at [phone] or view their
web site at https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/waste-management/waste-management-permit-
guidance/inactive-hazardous-sites-site-notification-requirements.

If you feel this information is not complete or accurate, please contact us to discuss
further. This property remains a good candidate for a brownfields agreement. If in the future, you
or some other developer desires to pursue a brownfields agreement on this Brownfields Property,
please submit a BPA and signed affidavit. However, please be aware as stated in the LOE, that in
addition to potentially affecting your status as a responsible party under applicable law, any
activities conducted by you on the site without an executed BFA may affect your eligibility
should you choose to apply for eligibility again in the future.

If you have questions about this correspondence or require additional information, please feel
free to contact me by e-mail at [e-mail] or by phone at [phone].

Sincerely,

Stephanie Graham
Brownfields Project Manager

ec: Central Files, DEQ
Bruce Nicholson, DEQ
Sharon Eckard, DEQ
Janet MacDonald, DEQ
Keith Snavely, DEQ
Jeffrey Ballsieper, Progress Environmental