20050785 Ver 14_More Info Letter_20100617

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NCDETdR
I North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Beverly Eaves Perdue Coleen H. Sullins
Govemoi Direcror
II June17,2010
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CERTIFIED MAIL - RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Dr. Greg Thorpe, PhD., Manager
Planning and Environmental Branch
North Carolina Department of Transportation
I 1548 MaiPService Center
Raleigh, NoRh Carolina, 27699-1548
Subject: Proposed improvements to US 17 in Beaufort County, Federal Aid Project No. MAF-75-3(26),
I; TIP R-2510C.
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I' Dear Dc Thorpe:
Dee Freeman
Secrelary
The NC Division of Water QualiTy has reviewed your submittal for a 401 Water Quality Certification and
Tar-Pamlico Buffer Authorization for the aforementioned project. Review of your application revealed it
lacking necessary infortnation required for making an infortned permit decisioa The permit application
was deficient in the following areas:
Buffer impacts Iisted incorrectly. The buffer impact summary sheet included with the
modification request lists the buffer impacts associated with the bridges at Sites lA and 4C as
mitigable. According to 15A NCAC 2B .0259(6), buffer impacts due to the bridge structures
are allowable and do not require mitigarion. The road approaches leading to the bridge are
considered road crossings and would trigger mitigation if buffer impacts exceed 150 tinear
feet or one-third of an acre. Please modify your buffer impact calculations to reflect this. '
Stream classification. Please identify the jurisdictional streams in the project azea as
intermittent or perennial. This is necessary for mitigation purposes. Also, a recent field visit
to the project area by DOT and DWQ staff on June 15, 2010 revealed that the stream at Site 2
may not be jurisdictional. Please confirm this with the Army Corps of Engineers and adjust
stream impact calculations as needed.
Therefore, pursuant to 15A NCAC 2H .0507(a)(5), we will have to place the pertnit application on hold
until we are supplied the necessary informatioa You have 21 days to respond in writing with the
requested information or notification to this office that the information is forthcoming. If, at the end of
the 21 days, this office has not received this information in writing,.we will assume you are withdrawing
? your application and it wifl be returned. Furthermore, until the information is received by the NC
Division of Water Quality, we request (by copy of this letter) that the US Army Corps of Engineers place
the permit application on hold.
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If you have any questions or require additional infortnation, please contact Garcy Wazd at (252) 948-
3922.
Sincerely,
?
oleen . Sullins
? Director
cc: Tom Steffens, US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington Field Office
Stephen Lane, DCM, Morehead City
Jay Johnson, Division 2 Environmental Officer
Garcy Ward, DWQ Washington Regional Office
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