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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20070327 Ver 1_More Info Received_20070320Environmental Services, Inc. Ms. Cyndi Karoly 401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit 1650 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-1650 16 March 2007 Re: DWQ Project # 07-0327, Request for More Information Dear Ms. Karoly: Please find attached copies of the Agent Authorization and EEP acceptance letter per Items 3 and 4 in your Request dated March 14a'. Additional information regarding Items 1 and 2 are forthcoming. Please call or email me at any time. Sincerely i Charles S. J ston Senior Scientist, ESI-Burlington (336) 312-3529 mobile Cc: Kevin Barnett, DWQ Asheville Regional Office Attachment: Agent Authorization Form, Weirbridge Village EEP Acceptance Letter, Weirbridge Village 3661 Alamance Road Burlington, NC 27215 (336) 570-3002, (336) 570-9566 fax v/ww. environmentalservices. cc MAR 2 0 2007 O~Nh - WqT~~ QUALITY -~T1AND8 AND STORI~NyATER BRANCH Ma r. 15. 2007 3:36AM Pulliam Environmental Services, Inc. 3661 Alamance Road Burlington, NC 27215 (336) 570-3002, (336) 570-9566 fax vrww.environmentalservicesinc.com ACCESS AGREEMENT ~t~d AGENT AUTHORIZATION No. 5622 P. 2 p'(- 03 2,~ T, Rusty Puniam ,representing Sizemore Devebpers. LLC (appticmdow~-«>, hereby authori2e representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and/or N.C. Division of 'W'ater Quality to access the subject property, lisped below, for the purpose of performing a jurisdictional wetland, stream, or buffer determination. Environmental Services, Inc. (ESI) is acting as our Authorized Agent for this project and must accompany agency personnel when visiting this site. project Name: Weirbridge Village, Buncombe Co. NC ESr Project #: BURO6-055 DWQ Project #: 07-0327 r ~~ Signature: ~(,~. r a~c.r/,,.~, , bate: o ~ ~riJ<1 ~1r~ ~a~ . ~m~~~~ rR06RAM March 1, 2007 Rusty Pulliam Sizemore Developers, LLC 2 Walden Ridge Drive, Ste.70 Asheville, NC 28803 Project: Weirbridge Village County: Buncombe o~-o3a~ The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (NCEEP) is willing to accept payment for impacts associated with the above referenced project. Please note that this decision does not assure that the payment will be approved by the permit issuing agencies as mitigation for project impacts. It is the responsibility of the applicant to contact these agencies to determine if payment to the NCEEP will be approved. This acceptance is valid for siz months from the date of this letter and is not transferable. If we have not reeved a ropy of the issued 404 Permit/401 CertilicatlodCAMA permit within this time frame, this acceptance will expire. It is the applicant's responsibility to send copies of the permits to NCEEP. Once NCEEP receives a copy of the permits} an invoice will be issued based on the required mitigation in that permit and payment must be made prior to conducting the authorized work. The amount of the In Lieu Fee to be paid to NCEEP by an applicant is calculated based upon the Fee Schedule and policies listed at www.nceep.net. Based on the information supplied by you the impacts that may require compensatory mitigation are summarized in the following table. French Broad 06010105 Stream (feet) Wetlands (acres) Buffer I (Sq. Ft.) Buffer II {Sq. Ft.) Cold Cool Warm Ri 'an Non-Ri 'an Coastal Marsh Innpacts 0 229 0 0.002 0 0 0 0 Credits 0 458 0 0.004 0 0 0 0 Upon receipt of payment, EEP will take responsibility for providing the compensatory mitigation. If the regulatory agencies require mitigation credits greater than indicated above, and the applicant wants NCSEP to be responsible for the additional mitigation, the applicant will need to submit a mitigation roqucst to NCEBP for approval prior to permit issuance. The mitigation will be performed in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between the N. C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers dated November 4,1998. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Kelly Williams at (919) 716-1921. cc: Cyndi Karoly, Wetlands/401 Unit Lori Beckwith, USACE-Asheville Kevin Barnett, DWQ-Asheville Charles ]ohnston, agent File ~ , R~storu-r~... ~ ... Prot~:c~ Orcrr Stag Si erely, illiam D. Gilmore, PE Director ~/] (~ ~_ MAR 2 0 .2007 UE.Nr~ • WATER QUALITY ,r~TIJa1DS MiD STORMWA7ER North CaraNna Ecosystem Enhancoment Program, 1852 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1 652 / 91 9-71 5-0476 / www.nceep.net