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Wilmington District
Action ID: SAW-2011-01068 County: Orange
Incomplete Application Notification
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Owner University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Agent
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Department of Environment, Health and SafetX
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Attn: Sharon Myers Address
Address 1120 Estes Drive Extension, Campus
Box 1650 Telephone Number Weaenc+u?`'? QbZ.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-1650
Telephone Number 919-962-9752
Location/Description of Proposed Activity: The project begins approximately 1000 feet northeast of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Homestead intersection, extends westward for approximately 2000 feet
then continues south across the UNC North Property and the Horace Williams Airport runway estending
across Estes Drive Extension and ends approximately 500 feet southwest of the Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard, Estes Drive Extension intersection in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina and is
identified as the Duct Bank Utility Line Project.
Type of Permit Applied For (check one): IP ( ) NWP # 12 (X) GP # ( )
Applicable law: Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (X); Section 10, Rivers and Harbor Act
YOUR APPLICATION/PRECONSTRUCTION NOTIFICATION IS INCOMPLETE AND
CANNOT BE EVALUATED UNTIL THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS RECEIVED
(CHECK ALL THAT APPLY):
-Your application/pre-construction notification form has not been completed and/or signed (see remarks).
-Under the conditions of Nationwide Permit # , you are required to submit an aquatic resource mitigation
plan. The required plan is either insufficient or has not been included with your notification (see remarks).
_-Your application/pre-construction notification did not include information describing measures you have
implemented to avoid and minimize impacts to Waters of the United States.
Your submitted project plans or maps were insufficient, too large, or not legible (see remarks).
-Your application/pre-construction notification did not include a delineation of affected special aquatic sites,
including wetlands, vegetated shallows, and riffle and pool complexes as required.
Your project is in a designated trout water county. Nationwide permit regional conditions require that a copy
of your application be submitted to the local NC Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC) for comment.
(Address: Western Piedmont Region Coordinator, 3855 Idlewild Road, Kernersville, NC 27284-9180)
X Other (see remarks)
REMARKS: Please provide the following information:
1. Based on a review of your application you propose impacts to 1 iurisdictional erennial st
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channels. In order to minimize degradation of water quality, flow within these channels should be
diverted around the work (fill) area during construction. Please provide additional details regarding
your proposed method of stream diversion. If you plan to use temporary coffer dams, please be
aware that coffer dams are considered as temporary fill and update/adjust your application and plans
accordingly. Please include a restoration plan for any temporary fills.
2. The Wilmington District Regional Condition4.3.1 for NWP #12 states that pipeline/utility line
construction through jurisdictional waters and wetlands will be accomplished utilizing directional
drilling/boring methods to the maximum extent practicable. Please consider this technique and
either adjust your plans to utilize directional boring or provide a brief discussion regarding the
reasons this technique cannot be used for this project.
3. Your current plans indicated that you will impact 0.137 acre of forested/scrub shrub type wetlands.
Please indicate, both verbally and with updated drawings, the total amount of wetlands at these
locations that will be permanently impacted by remaining with the maintained right-of-way.
If you do not submit the requested information within 30 days from the date of this letter, your
application will be withdrawn. If you have any questions regarding the Corps of Engineers
regulatory program, please contactAndrew Williams at telephone number [phone]
extension 26
Project Manager Signature Date
CC: Ian McMillan
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
Archdale Building
512 North Salisbury Street
Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Kevin Nunnery
Senior Ecologist/Southeast Bioregion Team Leader
Biohabitats, Inc.
8218 Creedmoor Road, Suite 200
Raleigh, North Carolina 27613