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Home My WebLink About20040343 Ver 2_More Info Received_20130712wk- 0343 u2- July 10, 2013 North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Water Quality 401 /Wetlands Unit 1650 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699 -1650 Subject: Request For Additional Information DWQ # 04 -0343 V2 Rowan County Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Expansion Application for Section 404 Individual Permit and Section 401 Water Quality Certification To Whom It May Concern: HDR Engineering, Inc. of the Carolinas (HDR), on behalf of our client Rowan County Department of Environmental Management (Rowan County), received the Division of Water Quality's (Division) Request For Additional Information dated June 27, 2013. Enclosed is an updated plan (Figure 4) that correctly depicts approximately 148 linear feet of stream impact (S 1) for unnamed tributary to Second Creek (Stream A). The feature upstream of the S1 impact was determined to be a non jurisdictional ephemeral channel as detailed in the issued U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Approved Jurisdictional Determination (SAW - 2012- 00467). Also enclosed is an acceptance letter from the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program's (NCEEP). Thank you in advance for your assistance. If you have any questions or require any additional information to process our request, please contact me at (704) 973 -6878 or eric.mularski(2hdrinc.com. HDR Engineering, Inc. of the Carolinas ECEIVE JUL 1 2 2013 440 S Church Street Phone: 17041338 -6700 Suites 900 & 1000 Fax 1704) 338 -6760 Charlotte, NC 28202 -2075 www.hdrinc.com Ecosystem PROGRAM July 9, 2013 Kathryn Jolly Rowan County Environmental Management 2727 -D Old Concord Road Salisbury, NC 28146 Expiration of Acceptance: January 9, 2014 Project: Rowan County Municipal Waste Landfill Expansion County: Rowan The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (NCEEP) is willing to accept payment for compensatory mitigation for impacts associated with the above referenced project as indicated in the table below. Please note that this decision does not assure that participation in the NCEEP will be approved by the permit issuing agencies as mitigation for project impacts. It is the responsibility of the applicant to contact these agencies to determine if payment to the NCEEP will be approved. You must also comply with all other state, federal or local government permits, regulations or authorizations associated with the proposed activity including SL 2009 -337: An Act to Promote the Use of Compensatory Mitigation Banks as amended by S.L. 2011 -343. This acceptance is valid for six months from the date of this letter and is not transferable. If we have not received a -copy of the issued 404 Permit/401 Certification /CAMA permit within this time frame, this acceptance will expire. It is the applicant's responsibility to send copies of the permits to NCEEP. Once NCEEP receives a copy of the permit(s) an invoice will be issued based on the required mitigation in that permit and payment must be made prior to conducting the authorized work. The amount of the In- Lieu Fee to be paid to NCEEP by an applicant is calculated based upon the Fee Schedule and policies listed at www.nceep.net. Based on the information supplied by you in your request to use the NCEEP, the impacts that may require compensatory mitigation are summarized in the following table. The amount of mitigation required and assigned to NCEEP for this impact is determined by pe itting agencies and may exceed the impact amounts shown below. Impact River Basin CU Location Stream (feet) Wetlands (acres) Buffer I (Sq. Ft.) Buffer II (Sq. Ft.) Cold Cool Warm Ri arian Non-Riparian Coastal Marsh Yadkin 03040102 0 0 2,244 0.55 0 0 0 0 Upon receipt of payment, EEP will take responsibility for providing the compensatory mitigation. The mitigation will be performed in accordance with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Ecosystem Enhancement Program In -Lieu Fee Instrument dated July 28, 2010. Thank you for your interest in the NCEEP. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Kelly Williams at (919) 707 -8915. cc: Karen Higgins, NCDWQ Wetlands /401 Unit Steve Kichefski, USACE - Asheville Alan Johnson, NCDWQ- Mooresville Eric Mularski, agent File Sincerely, Jan es B Stanfill Asset Management Supervi j�]] �U�- 1 2 2013 NR -A panda s WMlan c..� -. -. U _ A"toriing... E ... Pro", fta to V IW69WR North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program, 1652 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699 -1652 / 919- 707 -8976 / www.nceep.net Legend Project Area Delineated Waters of the U.S. Ephemeral Channel'- RPW with Seasonal Flow �' - --- - - - - -- MSW �'' Stream 3 RPW with Perennial Flow ` •1 'IR `.lea +'�' _`__ ,+, i `'' ' 1 `i J E —_ `l —' = -r` —_ — -- ..— _J ' .. ;, „' ;;�,•,' : -.! ,,a`,; FUTURE Delineated Wetlands - - - ____ - -- ! S4 -- _ ___ - - ' , MSW — `ACTIVE = -' � PHASE VIII Delineated Linear Wetlands - ,' �'`` --- 'MSW .- �� Proposed Impacted Streams I - ` S5 .FUTURE tr ^:r, ------------ t - _ _. ,1 MSW ----------- __ Wetland 5 - - - Wetland 7 - _ I - - : •, , r' j PHASE VII 'r - = 1 - J — i , `'1 •1 11 'I ` _. / r —' y .t Fl. FUTURE `' I '`,``,`• .MSW r�`- - _ -- -- -_ - - `� . ;PHASE X; __-FUTURE`,-.,.,,.` .� - L - - Wetland 1 Ir , x ' ; -MSW; - J Ephemeral Channel - �` ;; -PHASE VI': E2 PERMITTED; - Ss S1 f - - - PHASE'IV•.' - k V. 4 -148 LF W3 ' ; 1 • ��. Wetland 5 _ ' ' - � `�`a . t Wetland 3 - Culvert " - - S2 Wetland 2 U FUTURE - ; , Stream 1 d. _ MSW t 4 PHASE V S3 r e - - - Stream A - s - _ y r- - - - --- - _ # JUL 1. 2013 - - Stream Wetland r WA Eh LfAL? R QB S�atee Brandy s 1 inch = 600 feet == 0 0 300 600 1,200 - Feet Im ONE COMPANY (Many Solutions 0 M Preliminary Impacts to Jurisdictional Waters Figure 4 Rowan County Department of Environmental Management I Rowan County Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Expansion I Section 404/401 Application Ran Peirmanen Expansion Impact Wetland ID in JD Classification Impact Wetland Impa Phase Type Number (AcreskiiiM Phase X W1 Nletland 1 WaterlShrub Fill 018 Scrub Phase X W2 Wetland 2 Forested Fill 035 Phase X IP13 Wetland 2 Emergent Fill 0.02 Total 0.55 Expansion Stream Impact ' Impact Stream ID in JD Classification Stream I Phase Number Type .. Phase IV S1 Stream A - RPW with Fill 148 UT to Second Creek Seasonal Flow Stream A - RPW with Phase V S2 UT to Second Creek Seasonal Flow Fill 36 Phase X S3 Stream A - RPW with Fill 552 UT to Second Creek Seasonal Flow Phase X S4 Stream 1 - RPW with Fill 684 UT to Second Creek Perennial Flow Phase X S5 Stream 1 - RPW with Fill 385 UT to Second Creek Seasonal Flow Phase X S6 Stream 1 - RPW with Fill 439 UT to Second Creek Seasonal Flow Total 2,244 Im ONE COMPANY (Many Solutions 0 M Preliminary Impacts to Jurisdictional Waters Figure 4 Rowan County Department of Environmental Management I Rowan County Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Expansion I Section 404/401 Application