20081143 Ver 1_Cripple Creek Credit Release letter_20121218

REPLY TO
ATTENTION OF:
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WILMINGTON DISTRICT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS
69 DARLINGTON AVENUE
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA 28403 -1343
December 18, 2012
Regulatory Division
Action ID No: SAW - 2007 -01188
Ms. Tara Disy Allden
Restoration Systems, LLC
1101 Haynes Street, Suite 211
Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Dear Ms. Allden:
This correspondence is in reference to the Cripple Creek Stream and Wetland Mitigation
Bank you are developing located east of Roney - Lineberry Road, north of Woodbrooke Drive,
south of Deep Creek Church Road and west of North Fonville Road, in northeast Alamance
County, North Carolina, within the Cape Fear River Basin, Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)
03030002. The purpose of this letter is to confirm the release of credits from this Bank upon
completion of Task 4, as described in General Provision 19, of the Mitigation Banking
Instrument (MBI) for this project.
Pursuant to the Mitigation Banking Instrument (MBI) entitled, Cripple Creek Stream and •.._
Wetland Mitigation Bank, dated December 1, 2009, ten percent (10 %) of the Bank's total
restoration credits shall be available for sale immediately upon completion of all of the
following:
a. Submission of the 2nd year monitoring report.
b. Sponsor documents acceptable survival and growth of planted vegetation, and
attainment of acceptable wetland hydrology as described under the success criteria in the
monitoring section of the mitigation plan.
The Year 2 Annual Monitoring Report for the Cripple Creek Mitigation Bank was submitted
on November 5, 2012 and a site inspection of the Bank was conducted on December 12, 2012.
The report indicated that all six (6) groundwater gauges were operational through the year and
met the success criteria. The report also indicated that all planted vegetation plots met the
established success criteria. During the previous site inspection conducted on November 28,
2011, a minor amount of streambank erosion between cross section stations 15 and 16 and a

minor amount of wetland fill (0.01 acre) within the conservation easement, was observed. The
December 12, 2012 inspection revealed that these issues were resolved. Specifically, the
streambank had been stabilized with matting and planted vegetation and the minor amount of fill
had been removed.
By copy of this correspondence, we confirm that you have satisfied the above requirements
and 448.7 linear feet of stream mitigation credits (SMCs), 0.64 riparian wetland mitigation
credits (rWMCs) and 0.145 non - riparian wetland mitigation credits (nrWMCs) constituting 10%
of the Bank's total restoration credits are now available for sale. To date, 50 percent of the total
credits (2243.5 SMCs, 3.2 rWMCs and 0.725 nrWMCs) have been released. Our records indicate
that 1,183.7 SMCs, 2.50 rWMCs and 0.04 nrWMCs have been debited from the Bank.
Therefore, the current total amount of credits available is 1,059.8 SMCs, 0.70 rWMCs and 0.685
nrWMCs. Please note that all credits that have been reserved, but not transferred by Restoration
Systems, are included as "credits available" and not as "debited ". To date, our records indicate
you have reserved 359.1 SMCs for Greensboro Auto Auction and 0.05 acre of rWMCs for The
City of Greensboro. Please confirm all of these totals on your mitigation bank ledger.
Thank you for your time and cooperation. If you have any questions, please contact
Andrew Williams at the Raleigh Regulatory Field Office, telephone [phone], extension 26.
Sincerely,
Jean B. Gibby
Chief, Raleigh Regulatory
Field Office
Copies Furnished:
Mr. Jeffrey Garnett
USEPA REGION 4
61 Forsyth Street, S.W.
Mail Code: 9T25
Atlanta, GA 30303 -8960

Ms. Jennifer Derby
Wetlands and Marine Regulatory Section
US EPA
61 Forsyth Street, SW
Atlanta Georgia 30303 -8960
Mr. Pete Benjamin
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Fish and Wildlife Enhancement
Post Office Box 33726
Raleigh North Carolina 27636 -3726
Mr. Ron Sechler
National Marine Fisheries Service
Pivers Island
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
Ms. Sue Homewood
North Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Division of Water Quality
585 Waughtown Street
Winston- Salem, NC 27107
Ms. Shari Bryant
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
Post Office Box 129
Sedalia, North Carolina 27342 -0129
Mr. Todd Tugwell
Regulatory Project Manager
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
11405 Falls of Neuse Road
Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587
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