NCG200427_Renewal Letter with COC_20100211

NDER
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Beverly Eaves Perdue
Governor
Cherokee County
75 Peachtree St
Murphy, NC 28906
Dear Permittee:
Division of Water Quality
Coleen H. Sullins
Director
February 11, 2010
Dee Freeman
Secretary
Subject: NPDES Stormwater Permit Coverage Renewal
Cherokee County Recycling Facility
COC Number NCG200427
Cherokee County
Your facility was previously granted coverage under stormwater general permit NCG200000. This letter serves
as your notification that the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) has reissued the general permit and that your
facility's coverage will continue under the conditions of the reissued general permit. Please review the new permit
to familiarize yourself with the changes in the reissued permit. 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.)
The following information is included with your permit package:
• A new Certificate of Coverage
• A copy of stormwater General Permit NCG200000
• A copy of a Technical Bulletin for the General Permit
• Five copies of the regular and annual summary Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Forms
• Five copies of the Qualitative Monitoring Report Form
The General Permit authorizes discharges of stormwater only, and it specifies your obligations with respect to
stormwater discharge controls, management, monitoring, and record keeping. Please review the new permit to
familiarize yourself with all the changes in the reissued permit.
The more significant changes in the General Permit since your last Certificate of Coverage are as follows:
• Semi-annual analytical monitoring with benchmarks replaces annual monitoring with cut-off concentrations
• Refinements and clarifications to the SPPP requirements; refer to Part II, Section A
• New analytical monitoring parameters including pH, Cu, Fe, Zn and O&G
• Tiered response requirements for benchmark exceedences based on analytical results, and direction to
notify the DWQ Regional Office in the event of four benchmark exceedances (Fe not included);
benchmarks are not limits
• Semi-annual qualitative monitoring during a representative storm event
• Semi-annual (instead of annual) vehicle maintenance analytical monitoring with benchmarks (if required)
• Requirement to use forms provided by the Division to record qualitative monitoring results
• Requirement to submit an annual monitoring summary to the DWQ Regional Office by March 1 of each
year
Wetlands and Stormwater Branch
1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
Location: 512 N. Salisbury St. Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] FAX: [phone] Customer Service: 1-877-623-6748
Internet: www.ncwaterquality.org
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Permit Reissuance — Permit Number NCG200427
February 11, 2010
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Your coverage under the General Permit is transferable only through the specific action of DWQ.
This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain other permits which may be required by DENR, 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 Bill Diuguid of the Stormwater Permitting
Unit at [phone].
Sincerely,
for Coleen H. Sullins
cc: DWQ Central Files
Stormwater Permitting Unit Files
Asheville Regional Office

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY
GENERAL PERMIT NO. NCG200000
CERTIFICATE OF COVERAGE No. NCG200427
STORMWATER, MINE DEWATERING WATER AND/OR PROCESS WASTEWATER
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
In compliance with the provision of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1, other lawful standards
and regulations promulgated and adopted by the North Carolina Environmental Management
Commission, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended,
Cherokee County
is hereby authorized to operate approved wastewater treatment system(s) and discharge stormwater
and/or wastewater, as approved in the original permit/application or subsequent permit modification,
from a facility located at:
Cherokee County Recycling Facility
10160 US Hwy 19
Marble
Cherokee County
to receiving waters designated as Valley River, a class C;Tr waterbody in the Hiwassee River Basin in
accordance with the effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other conditions set forth in Parts
I, II, III, IV, V, and VI of General Permit No. NCG020000 as attached.
This certificate of coverage shall become effective February 11, 2010.
This Certificate of Coverage shall remain in effect for the duration of the General Permit.
Signed this 11th day of February, 2010.
for Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission