NCG500136_permit issuance_20201214

Weaver, Charles
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Subject:
Renewal of Duke Energy / Duke Progress NCG500000 Certificates of Coverage (CoCs)
Attachments:
NCG500000 2020 boiler plate.pdf, NCG500000 Technical Bulletin 2020.pdf, NCG500102_permit
issuance_20201211.pdf, NCG500108_permit issuance_20201211.pdf, NCG500119_permit issuance_
20201211.pdf; NCG500120_permit issuance_20201211.pdf, NCG500123_permit issuance_
20201211.pdf; NCG500124_permit issuance_20201211.pdf, NCG500125_permit issuance_
20201211.pdf; NCG500126_permit issuance_20201211.pdf, NCG500127_permit issuance_
20201211.pdf; NCG500131-permit issuance_20201214.pdf, NCG500136_permit issuance_
20201214.pdf; NCG500139_permit issuance_20201214.pdf, NCG500188_permit issuance_
20201215.pdf; NCG500189_permit issuance_20201215.pdf, NCG500190_permit issuance_
20201215.pdf; NCG500591_permit issuance_20201231.pdf, NCG500594_permit issuance_
20201231.pdf
Importance: High
The new CoCs for the Duke Hydro plants are attached, as is a copy of the new General Permit.
Please distribute these documents and begin using them immediately. Discard all previous versions of the General
Permit.
If you have any questions, simply reply to this message.
Charles H. Weaver
Environmental Specialist
N.C. DEQ / Division of Water Resources
919-707-3616
charles.weaver(@ncdenr.gov
(mailing address) 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed
to third parties.

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Subject: Renewal of Duke Energy / Duke Progress NCG500000 Certificates of Coverage (CoCs)

ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
S. DANIEL SMITH
Director
Lori Tollie
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC
2500 Fairfax Rd
Greensboro, NC 27407
Dear Permittee:
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
12/14/2020
Subject: Transfer of General Permit NCG500000
Nantahala Hydroelectric Station
Certificate of Coverage NCG500136
Macon County
The Division has renewed General Permit NCG500000. We hereby reissue Certificate of Coverage
(CoC) NCG500136 under General Permit NCG500000. It is issued pursuant to the requirements of North
Carolina General Statue 143-215.1 and the Memorandum of Agreement between North Carolina and the US
Environmental Protection agency dated October 15, 2007 [or as subsequently amended].
If any parts, measurement frequencies or sampling requirements contained in this General Permit
are unacceptable to you, you have the right to request an individual permit by submitting an individual
permit application. Unless such demand is made, the certificate of coverage shall be final and binding.
Please take notice that this Certificate of Coverage is not transferable except after notice to the
Division. The Division may require modification or revocation and reissuance of the certificate of coverage.
Contact the Asheville Regional Office prior to any sale or transfer of the permitted facility.
Regional Office staff will assist you in documenting the transfer of this CoC.
This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain any other State, Federal, or Local
governmental permit that may be required. If you have any questions concerning the requirements of the
General Permit, please contact John Hennessy [[e-mail]] or Sydney Carpenter
[sydney. carpenter@ncdenr. gov] .
Sincerely,
for S. Daniel Smith, Director
Division of Water Resources
cc: NPDES file
DE Q�� North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
_ 512 North Salisbury Street 1 1617 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1617
NORTH C aROLINA
Department f Environmental Quality /`� 919.707.9000

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
GENERAL PERMIT NCG500000
CERTIFICATE OF COVERAGE NCG500136
DISCHARGE OF NON -CONTACT COOLING WATER, COOLING TOWER AND BOILER
BLOWDOWN, CONDENSATE, EXEMPT STORMWATER, COOLING WATERS ASSOCIATED
WITH HYDROELECTRIC OPERATIONS, AND SIMILAR WASTEWATERS UNDER THE
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,
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC
is hereby authorized to discharge from a facility located at the
Nantahala Hydroelectric Station
27656 Wayah Rd
Topton
Macon County
to receiving waters designated as directly to the Nantahala River [Nantahala Lake (Aquone
Lake)], a class B-Trout stream in subbasin 04-04-03 of the Little Tennessee River Basin in
accordance with the effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other conditions set forth
in Parts I, II, and III hereof.
This certificate of coverage takes effect 12/14/2020.
This Certificate of Coverage shall remain valid for the duration of the General Permit.
Signed this day 12/14/2020
for S. Daniel Smith, Director
Division of Water Resources
By Authority of the Environmental Management Commission