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Home My WebLink About20080806 Ver 5_Scoping Comment Deadline - May 7_20200505Strickland, Bev From: Mairs, Robb L Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 10:20 AM To: King, Morella s Cc: Snider, Holley Subject: FW: Scoping Comment Deadline - May 7: Dredging Moratorium Window Relief Attachments: Windows EA Scoping Presentation_23APR.PDF; NEPA_Public_Scoping_WH_MHC_Harbors_Maintenance_Dredging_ EA_7April2020.pdf, Combined WaRO-WiRO comments on Scoping Request for Wilmington and Morehe.... docx Hey Morella, I wanted to keep you in the loop on this request from the US Army Corps of Engineers in regards to dredging moratorium windows for their Wilmington and Morehead City Harbor projects. Holley and I participated in the scoping presentation the other week, and the attached Word document is our collaborated response with the 401 staff in the Washington office. Thanks, Robb Mairs Environmental Specialist II Division of Water Resources North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality 910 796.7303 office robb.mairs@ncdenr.gov https:Hdeq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-resources-perm its/wastewater-branch/401- wetla nds-buffe r-perm its 127 Cardinal Drive Extension Wilmington, NC 28405 Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -----Original Message ----- From: Wojoski, Paul A Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 4:51 PM To: Scarbraugh, Anthony <anthony.scarbraugh@ncdenr.gov>; Mairs, Robb L <robb.mairs@ncdenr.gov>; Snider, Holley <holley.snider@ncdenr.gov> Subject: Scoping Comment Deadline - May 7: Dredging Moratorium Window Relief Hey Anthony, Robb, Holley - Could you work together to provide draft comments on the proposed? Anthony, will you please take the lead? Comments are Due May 7th (next Thursday), so if you can have something to by COB Tuesday, I'd really appreciate it. Sorry for the short deadline. I just spoke with Danny about and he agreed with us providing comments. As these are scoping comments, I believe we can keep our comments short just to ensure water quality is addressed and we keep our seat at the table. Specifically I would ensure the comments stated, at a min: 1. The need to address water quality with specific focus on the standards and classification of the waterbodies and how the moratorium window relief would impact biological integrity, best uses and conditions related to best use that are contained in the relevant standard. 2. The impacts of turbidity during moratoria, as related to water quality and standards described above. I think Robb's comments on the Surf City/North Topsail Beach CSRM EA Scoping are a great example to use. It's important to make these comments as DWR being a regulatory authority "enforces" the compliance with the resource agency comments. Also, commenting now in the scoping phase will ensure water quality issues are in the EA and will preserve our "seat at the table" to react to how the Corps addressed water quality in the EA. Lastly, it's unclear whether they will request a 401 for these projects. Corps Works has in the past, but being as there is no Federal permit to which to attach the 401, it's enforceability is ambiguous. Not sure if we can/should ask that in formal scoping comments, but something to consider. Thanks, Paul Paul Wojoski 401 & Buffer Permitting Branch Supervisor Division of Water Resources Department of Environmental Quality (919) 707-3631 office Paul.Wojoski@ncdenr.gov 512 N. Salisbury Street (Archdale Building), Suite 942-F, Raleigh, NC 27604 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1617 Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.