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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20061904 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20061228p~o~WAT~9PG r ~ -i ~ ~ Michael F. Easley, Governor William G. Ross Jr., Secretary North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources December 28, 2006 CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Fork Township Sanitary District Attn: Mr. Henry Braswell PO Box 1515 Goldsboro, NC 27533 Alan W. Klimek, P.E. Director Division of Water Quality DWQ Project # 06-1904 Wayne County Subject Property: Wal-Mart Force Main & Pump Station Contract 177, Goldsboro, NC UT to Little River [030406, 27-57-(20.2), WSIV, NSW REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION Dear Mr. Braswell: On December 11, 2006, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated December 8, 2006 to impact 25 linear feet of perennial streams, 1,919 square feet (ft) of Zone 1 protected riparian buffers and 1,279 square feet (ft2) of Zone 2 protected riparian buffers to construct the proposed force main and pump station. 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 wetlands and/or streams 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 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: Water Quality Certification You have proposed impacts to streams, but have not stated which 404 Permit or 401 Water Quality Certification you intend to use to impact these streams. Please state which permit and certification you intend to you. You may want to contact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USAGE) to determine which permit they will allow you to use. Please state which Permit (Nationwide, Regional or General) number you intend to use. 2. Please note that beginning January 1, 1999, the N.C. General Assembly passed legislation requiring payment of a fee for all 401 applications, as indicated on page two of the PCN application form. The fee for applications is $200 for projects impacting less than an acre of wetlands and less then 150 linear feet of streams. For projects impacting one or more acres of wetlands or 150 or more feet of streams, the fee is $475. In order to process your request, you must send a check in the appropriate amount made payable to N.C. Division of Water Quality. Please contact the DWQ within three weeks of the date of this letter to verify that you have received this letter and that you remain interested in continuing to pursue permitting of your project and will be 401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit 1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650 2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604 Phone: 919-733-1786 /FAX 919-733-6893 /Internet: h~•/lli2o.enr state nc us/ncwetlands Noe Carolina ~tura!!y An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - 50% Recycled/10% Post Consumer Paper Fork Township Sanitary District Page 2 of 2 December 28, 2006 providing the DWQ the requested information at a later date. Please contact me in wri4ing 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. 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 Ms. Cyndi Karoly or Ms. Amy Chapman at 919-733- 1786 if you have any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter. Sincerely, Cyndi Karoly, Supervisor 401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit CBK/asc cc: Kyle Barnes, DWQ Washington Regional Office DLR Washington Regional Office USACE Washington Regulatory Field Office File Copy Central Files Filename: 061904WalmartForceMain&PumpStation(Wayne)On_Hold