NCG110125_Renewal Issuance Notification Letter_20180612

Energy, Mineral &
Land Resources
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
June 12, 2018
City of Gastonia
Attn: Michael Peoples
PO Box 1748
Gastonia, NC 28053
ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
WILLIAM E. (TOBY) VINSON, JR.
Interim Director
Subject: NPDES Stormwater Permit Coverage Renewal COC #NCG110125
Dear Permittee:
For coverage under Stormwater General Permit NCGI 10000, the Division of Energy, Mineral,
and Land Resources (DEMLR) is notifying you that your reissued Certificate of Coverage
(COC) is available. This permit is reissued pursuant to the requirements of North Carolina
General Statute 143-215.1 and the Memorandum of Agreement between the state of North
Carolina and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, dated October 15, 2007 (or as
subsequently amended.)
You must access and print a copy of your new Certificate of Coverage (COC) via this website:
h!Ltps://edocs.deq.nc.gov/Forms/SW-COC-Renewal
Also, you must obtain a copy of the new NCG110000 General Permit from our website here:
https://deq.nc. gov/about/divisions/energy-mineral-land-resources/npdes-stormwater-gps. In
addition to the full permit, the 2018 print package on the website includes revised monitoring
forms.
The General Permit authorizes discharges of stormwater, and it specifies your obligations with
respect to discharge controls, management, monitoring, and record keeping. Please review the
new permit to familiarize yourself with all changes in the reissued permit. Significant changes
to the General Permit are outlined in documents available on the website above. Your
facility has six months from receipt of the permit to update your Stormwater Pollution
Prevention Plan (SPPP) to reflect any new permit requirements.
State of North Carolina I Environmental Quality I Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 N. Salisbury Street 1 1612 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
919 707 9200

How does the new General Permit affect Tier Status?
If vehicle maintenance activities (VMA) at your site trigger analytical monitoring, the first
sample period of your permit began on June 1, 2018. Tier 3 actions in Part IV of your permit
are triggered by benchmark exceedances on four occasions beginning on the effective date of
this permit and do not count prior exceedances. Likewise, Tier 2 actions are triggered by two
consecutive benchmark exceedances beginning on the effective date of this permit and do not
count prior exceedances. However, if your facility is already in Tier 2 (monitoring stormwater
discharges monthly) or Tier 3, you must continue monthly monitoring until relieved through
conditions of the permit or by DEMLR staff approval.
When does electronic DMR reporting start?
We recognize that many permittees under this permit do not have activities that trigger analytical
monitoring. However, for those that do, note that permittees will receive notification when
our eDMR system is ready for registration to begin reporting monitoring data
electronically. We are setting up our database with final parameters and the outfalls that
permittees submitted on-line. If you have any questions about the status, please contact Bethany
Georgoulias at [phone].
Your coverage under the General Permit is transferable only through the specific action of
DEMLR. This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain other permits which may
be required by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), nor does it relieve the
permittee from responsibility for compliance with any other applicable federal, state, or local
law, rule, standard, ordinance, order, judgment, or decree.
If you have any questions regarding this permit package please contact the DEMLR Stormwater
Program at [phone].
Sincerely,
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for William E. (Toby) Vinson, Jr., P.E., CPM
Interim Director, Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
cc: Stormwater Program files
State of North Carolina I Environmental Quality I Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 N. Salisbury Street 1 1612 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
919 707 9200