20060645 Ver 2_WRC Comments_20120103

Strickland, Bev
From: Homewood, Sue
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:34 PM
To: Strickland, Bev
Subject: FW: Duke Energy Belews Creek Steam Station amendment - wrc comments
Attachments: Duke Energy Belews Steam Station-2011 00972_WRC additional comments—Stokes
County.doc
For 06 -0645 v2
Sue Homewood
NC DENR Winston -Salem Regional Office
Division of Water Quality
585 Waughtown Street
Winston - Salem, NC 27107
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From: McHenry, David G.
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 2:35 PM
To: John Thomas ( john. t. thomas .ir(a)saw02.usace.army.mil); Homewood, Sue; Allan Ratzlaff (Allen ratzlafPCabfws.aov)
Subject: Duke Energy Belews Creek Steam Station amendment - wrc comments
Folks,
Please accept these comments.
Thanks
Dave
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9 North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 9
Gordon Myers, Executive Director
January 3, 2012
Mr. John Thomas
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regulatory Branch
3331 Heritage Trade Drive, Suite 105
Wake Forest, NC 27587
SUBJECT: Additional WRC Comments on Duke Energy Belews Creek Steam Station Permit
Stokes County, Action ID. 2011 -00972
Dear Mr. Thomas:
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC) offered comments to you regarding this
permit action on July 22, 2011. The applicant has since modified the proposal. These additional
comments are offered for your consideration under provisions of the Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C.
466 et. seq.) and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 661- 667d).
We concur with the USFWS's December 21, 2011 recommendations on the amended application.
Specifically, short of Alternative B, expansion of the FGD landfill is environmentally preferably because
it would involve less up -front impacts to streams and wetlands while allowing more data collection and,
presumably, a more definitive evaluation of long -term disposal needs.
Thank you for the opportunity to review and comment further on this regulatory action. Please contact
me at (828) 452 -0422 extension 24 if you have any questions about these comments.
Sincerely,
Dave McHenry
Mountain Region Coordinator, Habitat Conservation Program
Cc: Ms. Sue Homewood, DWQ
Mr. Allan Ratzlaff, USFWS
Mailing Address: Division of Inland Fisheries • 1721 Mail Service Center • Raleigh, NC 27699 -1721
Telephone: [phone] • Fax: [phone]