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Mr. Pete Byers
2779 Mouth of the Creek Road
Blounts Creek, NC 27814
Subject Property:
Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
September 25, 2006
Subject Property: 2779 Mouth of Creek Road, Beaufort County, NC
Blounts Bay [030307, 29-9, SB, NSW]
REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Byers:
Alan W. Klimek, P.E. Director
Division of Water Quality
DWQ Project # 06-1381
County: Beaufort
On August 25, 2006, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated August 22,
2006 to impact 1,500 square feet of Zone 1 of the protected riparian buffers and 1,000 square feet of Zone
2 of the protected riparian buffers to grade and revegetate the slope of the hill on the referenced property
to lessen erosion. The DWQ has determined that your application was incomplete and/or provided
inaccurate information as discussed below. The DWQ will require additional information in order to
process your application to impact protected wetland, streams and/or buffers on the subject property.
Therefore, unless we receive the additional information requested below, we will have to move toward
denial of your application as required by 15A NCAC 2H .0506 and 2B .0259(8) and will place this
project on hold as incomplete until we receive this additional information. Please provide the following
information so that we may continue to review your project.
Additional Information Requested:
Grading and Revegetating the Buffers
You have proposed impacts to Zones 1 and 2 of the protected riparian buffers to grade and
revegetate on your property to alleviate erosion. Grading and revegetating in Zone 2 of the
protected riparian buffers are allowable in the Tar-Pamlico Buffer Rules (15A NCAC 02B.0259).
However grading and revegetating in Zone 1 of the buffers is prohibited. You must stay out of Zone
1 with your grading and revegetating activities or apply for a Major Variance which must be heard
before our Water Quality Committee. You can download our Major Variance application at the
following website: http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands/major.doc
Please respond within three weeks of the date of this letter by sending this information to me in writing
and Kyle Barnes of the DWQ Washington Regional Office. If we do not hear from you within three
weeks, we will assume that you no longer want to pursue this project and we will consider the project as
withdrawn.
401 OversighUExpress Permitting Unit
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevazd, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] /FAX [phone] / Internet: htto://h2o.enr.state.nc us/ncwetlands
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Pete Byers
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September 25, 2006
This letter only addresses the application review and does not authorize any impacts to wetlands, waters
or protected buffers. Please be aware that any impacts requested within your application are not
authorized (at this time) by the DWQ. Please call Cyndi Karoly or Amy Chapman at 919-733-1786 if
you have any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter.
Si ely,
Cyndi Karoly, Supervisor
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cc: Kyle Barnes, DWQ Washington Regional Office
Terry Moore; CAMA; 943 Washington Square Mall; Washington, NC 27889
File Copy
Central Files
Filename: 061381 PeteByers(Beaufort)On_Hold