20070602 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20070409

QF WATF9 Michael F. Easley, Governor
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Q G William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
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Vj ~ North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
0 ~. Alan W. Klimek, P.E. Director
Division of Water Quality
Apri19, 2007
DWQ Project # 07-0602
Buncombe County
CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
The Biltmore Company
Attn: Parker Andes
One North Pack Square
Asheville, North Carolina 28801
Subject Properly:
® REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
^ PERMITTING FEE MISSING/INCORRECT
^ RETURN OF APPLICATION PACKAGE
Dear Mr. Andes:
On Apri15, 2007, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated March 27, 2007
for the above referenced project. 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 five copies of 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, See I. Processing, Item 2.. Please state which Permit
(Nationwide, Regional or General) number you intend to use. You may want to contact the
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USAGE) to determine which permit they will allow you, to
use. The Asheville Regulatory Field Office telephone number is: 828-271-7980.
^ DWQ requires the name of an individual shown as "Owner/Applicant" to set up the project.
^ The PCN Application failed to contain the Applicant/Agent's Signature and Date. See last
page of application. (Agent's signature is valid only if an authorization letter from applicant is
provided).
^ Water Body information not stated. See III Project Information, Item 7.
® Incorrect and/or missing wetland, intermittent-perennial stream and/or buffer impacts.
N~Q~e Carolina
401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit d VKt~lCll~~l,
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: [phone] /FAX [phone] / Internet: http•/lh2o enr state.nc us/ncwetlands
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DWQ is unable to review this project without noted or corrected impacts reflected. The
amount of wetland impact is not clear. More accurate figures are required.
^ Lack of permitting fee. Please note that beginning January 1, 1999, the N.C. General
Assembly passed legislation requiring payment of a fee for a11401 applications. The fee for
applications is $200 for projects impacting less than an acre of wetland and less than 150
linear feet of streams. For projects impacting one or more acres of wetland or 150 or more
feet of streams, the fee is $475.
^ Incorrect permitting fee amount. Please see above item. Your check # for $
is herein enclosed for fee correction. DWQ does not retain any payment unless it is in the
correct amount.
^ DWQ is making the suggestion that all associated project maps be submitted as a PDF file on
a CD in addition to two (2) paper copies. DWQ does require five (5) sets of the PCN
application.
^ OTHER:
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
providing the DWQ the requested information at a later date. Please contact this office in writing. If we
do not hear ftom 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 Mr. Ian McMillan or me at 919-73~~786 if you have
any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter. //''
Singly,
CCyndi Karoly, Supervisor
~01 Oversght/Express Review Permitting. Unit
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cc: USACE Asheville Regulatory Field Office
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Filename: 070602B iltmore_RamB ranchRestoration(Buncombe)_Hold_NW#_Impacts