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North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Division of Waste Management
Pat McCrory Donald R. van der Vaart
Governor Secretary
1646 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1646
Phone/Fax 919-707-8200 Internet: http://www.ncdenr.gov
An Equal Opportunity \ Affirmative Action Employer
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
DIVISION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT
SOLID WASTE SECTION
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY
Permit No. 8106
DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC
is hereby issued a
PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT
Not Applicable
PERMIT TO OPERATE
8106-INDUS-2009, DUKE ENERGY, ROGERS CCP LANDFILL
PERMIT FOR CLOSURE
Not Applicable
Located within the James E. Rogers Energy Complex (formerly Cliffside Steam Station) property
boundaries, at NCSR 1002 (Duke Power Road), Cliffside Community, Rutherford County, North
Carolina, in accordance with Article 9, Chapter 130A, of the General Statutes of North Carolina and all
rules promulgated thereunder and subject to the conditions set forth in this permit. The legal description
of the site is identified on the deeds recorded for this property listed in Attachment No. 1 of this permit.
Edward F. Mussler, III, P.E., Supervisor
Permitting Branch, Solid Waste Section
Division of Waste Management, NCDEQ
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ATTACHMENT 1
GENERAL PERMIT CONDITIONS/INFORMATION
PART I: GENERAL FACILITY
Permit to Operate Date Table
Permit Status Issuance Expiration DIN
8106-INDUS-2009, Duke Energy,
Rogers CCP Landfill
Active JUNE 13, 2016 September 7, 2020 25702
General Conditions
1. This permit is issued by the North Carolina Department Environmental Quality, Division of
Waste Management, Solid Waste Section (Section). In accordance with North Carolina Solid
Waste Management Rule 15A NCAC 13B .0201(d), a solid waste management facility
permit shall have two parts: a Permit to Construct and a Permit to Operate. The Permit to
Construct must be implemented in accordance with Attachment 2 of this permit. The Permit
to Operate must be implemented in accordance with Attachment 3 of this permit.
2. The persons to whom this permit is issued (“permittee”) are the owners and operators of the
solid waste management facility.
3. The Permit to Construct for this facility dated June 4, 2009, was recorded in the Rutherford
County Register of Deeds on July 15, 2009, in Deed Book 985, Pages 695 – 702 (DIN 8645).
4. When this property is sold, leased, conveyed, or transferred in any manner, the deed or other
instrument of transfer shall contain in the description section in no smaller type than that
used in the body of the deed or instrument, a statement that the property has been used as a
solid waste management facility and a reference by book and page to the recordation of the
permit.
5. By beginning construction or receiving waste at this facility the permittee shall be considered
to have accepted the terms and conditions of this permit.
6. Operation of this solid waste management facility shall be in accordance with the Solid
Waste Management Rules, 15A NCAC 13B, Article 9 of the Chapter 130A of the North
Carolina General Statutes (NCGS 130A-290, et seq.), the conditions contained in this permit,
and the approved plan. Should the approved plan and the rules conflict, the Solid Waste
Management Rules shall take precedence unless specifically addressed by permit condition.
Failure to comply may result in compliance action or permit revocation.
7. This permit is issued based on the documents submitted in support of the application for
permitting the facility including those identified in Attachment 1, List of Documents for
Approved Plan, and which constitute the approved plan for the facility. Where discrepancies
exist, the most recent submittals and the Conditions of Permit shall govern.
8. This permit may be transferred only with the approval of the Section, through the issuance of
a new or substantially amended permit in accordance with applicable statutes and rules. In
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accordance with NCGS 130A-295.2(g) the permittee must notify the Section thirty (30) days
prior to any significant change in the identity or business structure of either the owner or the
operator, including but not limited to a proposed transfer of ownership of the facility or a
change in the parent company of the owner or operator of the facility.
9. The permittee is responsible for obtaining all permits and approvals necessary for the
development of this project including approval from appropriate agencies for a general or
individual NPDES Stormwater Discharge Permit. Issuance of this permit does not remove
the permittee’s responsibilities for compliance with any other local, state or federal rule,
regulation or statute.
Properties Approved for the Solid Waste Management Facility
Rutherford County, N.C. Register of Deeds
Book Page Acres
940 93-97 Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 182.47±
Total Site Acreage: 182.47±
PART II: MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART III: CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART IV: INDUSTRIAL LANDFILL UNIT(S)
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Permitting History
Permit Type Date Issued DIN
Site Suitability approved. November 18, 2008 6074
Permit to Construct, Phase I, original issuance. June 4, 2009 7421
Permit to Construct, Phase I, modification of approved plans,
GCL Longitudinal Seaming Procedures and Leachate Force
Main Alignment.
December 2, 2009 8916
Permit to Operate, Phase I, original issuance. September 7, 2010 11354
Permit to Construct Phase II, amendment. September 17, 2012 16709
Permit to Construct Phase II, modification of permit, extension
of the 18 month substantial construction requirement.
March 19, 2014 20715
Permit to Operate, Phase II, Modification June 13, 2016 25702
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List of Documents for Approved Plan
DIN Description
5957 Duke Energy – Cliffside Steam Station, New CCP Landfill, Site Application Submittal.
Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. January 7, 2008.
6059 Site Suitability – Cliffside CCP Landfill – Phase 1, Duke Energy, Rutherford County,
Response to Comments. Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. September 22,
2008.
7797 Duke Energy Corporation, Cliffside CCP Landfill – Phase 1, Construction
Application. Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. December 2008, Revised
June 2009.
7420 Response to Review Comments on Construction Plan Application, Review letter dated
March 13, 2009, Duke Energy Corporation, Cliffside Steam Station, Rutherford
County, North Carolina, Cliffside CCP Landfill, Construction Plan Application, DIN
6990. Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. May 13, 2009.
7695 Duke Energy Corporation, Cliffside Steam Station, Permit No. 81-06 Rutherford
County, North Carolina, Cliffside CCP Landfill, Permit to Construct Modification.
Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. June 2009.
8833 Duke Energy Corporation, Cliffside CCP Landfill – Phase 1, Permit Modification,
GCL Longitudinal Seaming Procedures and Leachate Force Main Alignment.
Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. November 3. 2009.
10699 Duke Energy, Cliffside Steam Station, Cliffside CCP Landfill, Phase I Construction
Quality Assurance Report, Final Submittal. Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke
Energy. July 2010.
11433 Duke Energy, Cliffside Steam Station, Cliffside CCP Landfill, Operations Plan.
Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. December 2008, Revised August 2010.
17193 Duke Energy, Cliffside Steam Station, CCP Landfill – Phase II, Construction Plan
Application. Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. December 2011. Revised
August 2012.
20677 Cliffside Steam Station, Coal Combustion Products (CCP) Landfill Phase II, Permit
No. 8106-INDUS-2009, Phase II PTC Modification Request. Prepared by Duke
Energy. March 2014.
25731 Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, Rogers CCP Landfill Facility Permit No. 8106, Water
Quality Monitoring Plan, (updated February 2016). Prepared by CDM. Prepared for
Duke Energy. February 2016.
25732 Duke Energy, Rogers Energy Complex (Formerly Cliffside Steam Station), Rogers
CCP Landfill Operations Plan Permit No. 8106. Prepared by CDM. Prepared for
Duke Energy. March 2016.
25730 Duke Energy, Rogers Energy Complex, (Cliffside Steam Station), Cliffside CCP
Landfill, Permit No. 8106-INDUS-2009, Phase II Construction Quality Assurance
Report. Prepared by CDM. Prepared for Duke Energy. March 2016.
25924 Supplement to Application for Permit to Operate - Construction Quality Assurance
Report, Permit No. 8106-INDUS, Rogers Energy Complex (formerly Cliffside Steam
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Station), 573 Duke Power Road, Mooresboro, NC 28114. Prepared by CDM. Prepared
for Duke Energy. March 2016.
PART V: LAND CLEARING AND INERT DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VI: TRANSFER STATION/TREATMENT & PROCESSING UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VII: MISCELLANEOUS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Not Applicable
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ATTACHMENT 2
CONDITIONS OF PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT
PART I: GENERAL FACILITY
Not Applicable
PART II: MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART III: CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART IV: INDUSTRIAL LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART V: LAND CLEARING AND INERT DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VI: TRANSFER STATION/TREATMENT & PROCESSING UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VII: MISCELLANEOUS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Not Applicable
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ATTACHMENT 3
CONDITIONS OF PERMIT TO OPERATE
PART I: GENERAL FACILITY
1. Financial assurance must be continuously maintained for the facility in accordance with
NCGS 130A 295.2. The owner and operator must annually adjust cost estimates for inflation.
2. All sedimentation and erosion control activities must be conducted in accordance with the
Sedimentation Control Act NCGS 113A-50, et seq., and rules promulgated under 15A
NCAC 4. All required sedimentation and erosion control measures must be installed and
operable to mitigate excessive on-site erosion and to prevent silt from leaving the area of the
landfill unit during the service life of the facility.
3. Copies of this permit, the approved plans, and all records, required to be maintained in the
operating record by the permittee, must be maintained at the facility, unless otherwise
approved by the Section, and made available to the Section upon request during normal
business hours.
4. All forms, reports, maps, plans, and data submitted to the Section must include an electronic
(pdf) copy.
5. The facility must be adequately secured by means of gates, chains, berms, fences, or other
security measures approved by the Section to prevent unauthorized entry.
6. Interior roadways must be of all-weather construction and maintained in good condition.
7. The edge of the waste footprint for all disposal units must be identified and maintained with
permanent physical markers.
8. The owner or operator must maintain a record of the amount of solid waste received at the
landfill unit, compiled on a monthly basis, utilizing installed and well maintained truck
scales. Any alternative methods for establishing truck weights must be approved in writing
by the Section.
9. The following, at a minimum, must not be accepted for disposal at the facility: hazardous
waste, yard trash, liquid wastes, regulated medical waste, sharps not properly packaged, PCB
waste as defined in 40 CFR 761, and wastes banned from disposal by NCGS 130A-309.10(f).
Monitoring and Reporting Requirements
10. Groundwater locations must be established and monitored as identified in the List of
Documents for Approved Plan.
11. A licensed geologist must be present to supervise the installation of groundwater monitoring
wells. The exact locations, screened intervals, and nesting of the wells must be established
after consultation with the Section Hydrogeologist at the time of well installation.
12. Groundwater monitoring wells must be sampled for the constituents in the approved
monitoring plan, at least semi-annually, according to the specifications outlined in the
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approved Water Quality Monitoring Plan and the current policies and guidelines of the
Section in effect at the time of sampling.
13. Reports of the analytical data for each monitoring event must be submitted to the Section
within 120 days of the respective sampling event. Analytical data must be submitted in a
manner prescribed by the Section. Records of all groundwater and leachate analytical data
must be kept as part of the permanent facility record.
14. Untreated leachate must be sampled and analyzed at least semi-annually concurrently with
the groundwater sampling, one sample per event. The leachate must be analyzed for the
same constituent list as the groundwater monitoring wells outlined in the approved Water
Quality Monitoring Plan. Test results must be submitted to the Section along with
groundwater test results. In the event leachate is recirculated, additional leachate sampling
may be required.
15. A readily accessible unobstructed path must be cleared and maintained so that four-wheel
vehicles may access monitoring well locations at all times.
16. A log which details all development, sampling, repair, and all other pertinent activities
associated with each monitoring well and all sampling activities associated with each surface
water and leachate sampling location must be kept as part of the permanent facility record.
17. All well construction records and soil boring logs for new wells must be submitted to the
Section Hydrogeologist for review within 30 days of completion.
PART II: MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART III: CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART IV: INDUSTRIAL LANDFILL UNIT(S)
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18. The Permit to Operate shall expire September 7, 2020. Pursuant to 15A NCAC 13B
.0201(e), no later than March 7, 2020 the owner or operator must submit a request to the
Section for permit review and must update pertinent facility plans including, but not limited
to, the facility operation and waste screening plans.
19. This permit approves the operation of Phase I and II, of the industrial landfill, as well as the
onsite environmental management and protection facilities as described in the approved
plans.
20. This facility is permitted to receive solid waste generated by or at any and all Duke Energy
Corporation facilities, as described in the approved plan and as defined in NCGS 130-290
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(a)(2b), except where prohibited by NCGS 130A, and the rules adopted by the
Environmental Management Commission. Waste types include, but are not limited to:
a. Coal combustion residuals (CCRs) (including fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, coal mill
rejects/pyrites, flue gas desulfurization sludge, gypsum, leachate basin sludge,
nonhazardous sandblast material, limestone, lime, ball mill rejects, coal, carbon, sulfur
pellets, cation and anion resins, sediment from sumps, cooling tower sludge, filter bags,
conditioning agents (e.g., lime kiln dust), soil material that contains any of the above
material and soil used for operations.);
b. Incidental amounts of geotextile used in the management of CCP's. The geotextile
materials are to be porous in nature and may include but are not limited to: silt bags, bag
house bags, geotubes, and geotextile fabric used to manage CCP material.
c. And vacuum truck waste.
21. The following conditions must be met prior to approval for operation of any phase, cell or
construction sequence of the structural fill;
a. Financial assurance must be made current if any adjustment is warranted.
b. A construction quality assurance documentation report shall be prepared in accordance
with the approved plan and submitted to the Section for review prior to placement of
waste.
c. New groundwater monitoring wells associated with each new phase or cell shall be
installed and background sampling shall be completed for the constituents listed in the
approved Water Quality Monitoring Plan listed in Attachment 1, List of Documents for
Approved Plan.
23. On or before August 1 annually, the permittee must submit an annual facility report to the
Section, on forms prescribed by the Section.
a. The reporting period shall be for the previous year beginning July 1 and ending June 30.
b. The annual facility report must list the amount of waste received and landfilled in tons
and be compiled:
i) On a monthly basis.
ii) By specific waste type.
iii) By disposal location within the facility.
iv) By county of origin.
c. A measurement of volume utilized in the landfill cells must be performed during the
second quarter of the calendar year. The date and volumes, in cubic yards, must be
included in the report.
d. The amount of waste, in tons from scale records, disposed in landfill cells from
September 7, 2010 through the date of the annual volume survey must be included in the
report.
e. The completed report must be forwarded to the Section Environmental Senior Specialist
for the facility by the date due on the prescribed annual facility report form.
f. A copy of the completed report must be forwarded to each county manager for each
county from which waste was received at the facility. Documentation that a copy of the
report has been forwarded to the county managers must be sent to the Section
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Environmental Senior Specialist by the date due on the prescribed annual facility report
form.
24. The facility operator must complete an approved operator training course in compliance with
NCGS 130A-309.25.
a. A responsible individual certified in landfill operations must be on-site during all
operating hours of the facility to ensure compliance with operational requirements.
b. All pertinent landfill-operating personnel must receive training and supervision necessary
to properly operate the landfill units.
25. The following table lists the estimated gross capacity, acreage and status details for the
landfill units. Gross capacity is defined as the calculated volume from the elevation of initial
waste placement to the top of the final cover.
Duke Energy, Rogers CCP Landfill Waste Capacity
Construction Sequence Waste Capacity
(cubic yards)
Area
(acres)
Status
Phase I 2,415,000 23.3 Constructed
Phase II 1,922,000 15.3 Constructed
Phase III 3,654,000 16.9 Proposed
Phase IV 3,327,000 16.2 Proposed
Phase V 2,025,000 14.3 Proposed
Total 13,343,000 86.0
PART V: LAND CLEARING AND INERT DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VI: TRANSFER STATION/TREATMENT & PROCESSING UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VII: MISCELLANEOUS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Not Applicable
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ATTACHMENT 4
CONDITIONS OF PERMIT FOR CLOSURE
PART I: GENERAL FACILITY
1. Closure or partial closure of any landfill unit must be in accordance with the closure plans
described in the approved plans. Proposed changes to the approved closure plans must be
submitted to the Section at least 90 days prior to implementation.
2. Closure construction quality assurance reports must be submitted to the Section at least
annually and maintained in the operating record of the facility.
3. Final closure of the landfill and initiation of the 30-year post-closure period commences upon
the engineer’s certification that the closure of the fill is complete.
4. Post-closure use of the property must not disturb the integrity of the cap system, base liner
system, or any other components of the containment system or the function of the monitoring
systems. The Section may approve disturbance if the constructor or operator demonstrates
that disturbance of the cap system, base liner system, or other component of the containment
system will not increase the potential threat to public health, safety, and welfare; the
environment; and natural resources.
PART II: MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART III: CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART IV: INDUSTRIAL LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART V: LAND CLEARING AND INERT DEBRIS LANDFILL UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VI: TRANSFER STATION/TREATMENT & PROCESSING UNIT(S)
Not Applicable
PART VII: MISCELLANEOUS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Not Applicable
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