20070623 Ver 1_Approval Letter_20070507

Michael F. Easley, Governor
William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Alan W. Klimek, P.E. Director
Division of Water Quality
May 7, 2007
DWQ Project # 2007-0623
Polk County
Ecosystem Enhancement Program
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
1652 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC, 27699-1652
Subject Property: Little White Oak Stream Restoration Site
Ut Little White Oak Creek, Class C, 9-29-46-1
Approval of 401 Water Quality Certification
To Whom it May Concern:
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions and those listed below, to conduct
mitigation activities within 16,278.3 feet of streams at the subject property, as described within your
application dated April 9, 2007 and received as complete by the N.C. Division of Water Quality (DWQ)
on May 3, 2007. After reviewing your application, we have decided that the impacts are covered by
General Water Quality Certification Number(s) 3626 (GC3626). The Certification(s) allows you to use
Nationwide Permit(s) 27 when issued by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USAGE). In addition, you
should obtain or otherwise comply with any other required federal, state or local permits before you go
ahead with your project including (but not limited to) Erosion and Sediment Control, Non-discharge, and
other applicable regulations. Also, this approval to proceed with your proposed impacts or to
conduct impacts to waters as depicted in your application shall expire upon expiration of the 404
Permit.
This approval is for the purpose and design that you described in your application. If you change your
project, you must notify us and you may be required to send us a new application. If the property is sold,
the new owner must be given a copy of this Certification and approval letter and is thereby responsible for
complying with all conditions. If total fills for this project (now or in the future) exceed one acre of
wetland or 1501inear feet of stream, compensatory mitigation maybe required as described in 15A
NCAC 2H .0506 (h). This approval requires you to follow the conditions listed in the attached
certification.
Violations of any condition herein set forth may result in revocation of this Certification and may result in
criminal and/or civil penalties. The authorization to proceed with your proposed impacts or to conduct
impacts to waters as depicted in your application and as authorized by this Certification shall expire upon
expiration of the 404 Permit.
NcorthCarol
401 Oversight/ExpressReview Permitting Unit atura!!
1650 Mai] Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone [phone] / Fax [phone]
Internet: http://www.ncwaterquality.org
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If you do not accept any of the conditions of this Certification (associated with the approved wetland or
stream impacts), you may ask for an adjudicatory hearing. You must act within 60 days of the date that
you receive this letter. To ask for a hearing, send a written petition, which conforms to Chapter 150B of
the North Carolina General Statutes to the Office of Administrative Hearings, 6714 Mail Service Center,
Raleigh, N.C. 27699-6714. This certification and its conditions are final and binding unless you ask for a
hearing.
This letter completes the review of the Division of Water Quality under Section 401 of the Clean Water
Act. If you have any questions, please telephone Cyndi Karoly or Ian McMillan in the Central Office in
Raleigh at 919-733-1786 or Kevin Barnett in the DWQ Asheville Regional Office at 828-296-4500.
Sincerely,
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Alan W. Klimek, P.E.
AWK/cbk
Enclosures: GC 3626
Certificate of Completion
cc: Suzanne Klimek, Ecosystem Enhancement Program
USACE Asheville Regulatory Field Office
DWQ Asheville Regional Office
DLR Asheville Regional Office
File Copy
Central Files
Wendee Smith, Mulkey, Inc., 6750 Tryon Road, Cary, NC, 27511
Filename: 20070623Litt1eWhiteOak(Polk)401