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Home My WebLink About20130782 Ver 1_Emails_20130930Higgins, Karen From: Matthews, Matt Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 12:42 PM To: Higgins, Karen; Henson, Belinda Cc: Turlington, Chad Subject: RE: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Attachments: Matt Matthews3.vcf Thanks! E -mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. Matt Matthews Department of Environment and Natural R... Water Permitting Section Chief (919) 807 - 6334Work matt.matthews@ncdenr.gov 5:12 N. Salisbury Street 27604 http:Pportal.ncdenr.orgir veb jq/s,,vp From: Higgins, Karen Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 12:34 PM To: Matthews, Matt; Henson, Belinda Cc: Turlington, Chad Subject: RE: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Looks good to me, although is some of the discussion I had with Sampson County it sounded like Sampson County may have paid for the mitigation as part of the incentive to get the company to locate there. I would suggest a minor edit to that sentence (see below). Thanks- Karen Karen Higgins 401 & Buffer Permitting Unit NCDENR - Division of Water Resources - Water Quality Programs 1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699 -1650 Phone: (919) 807 -6360 Email: karen.higgins @ncdenr.gov Website: http: / /Portal.ncdenr.org /web /wq /swp /ws /webscape E -mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. From: Matthews, Matt Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 12:11 PM To: Henson, Belinda Cc: Turlington, Chad; Higgins, Karen Subject: RE: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Everyone: Please make sure this is right. =1 The Division worked with the Sampson County Economic Development Commission and Enviva to reevaluate features on a potential development site that the Corps of Engineers had determined to be isolated wetlands during the extreme of the drought in 2010. That reevaluation determined that there were no wetlands on the site, eliminating the need for an isolated wetlands permit and saving toe eeffp� approximately 1.6 million dollars in associated mitigation fees. The proposed wood pellet production facility would bring an investment of between $95 million -$117 million in taxable property, as well as 79 direct jobs at an average salary of $37,000. There also could be 130 indirect jobs in the forest supply and logistics chain, 300 contractor and project crew jobs during the construction of the facility, and $35 million in purchases in the local logging and forestry industry. (Science, Economics) E -mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. Matt Matthews Department of Environment and Natural R... Water Permitting Section Chief (919) 807 - 6334 Work matt.matthews@ncdenr.gov 5:12 N. Salisbury Street 27604 http:Pportal.ncdenr.orgir veb jq/s,,vp From: Henson, Belinda Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 10:42 AM To: Matthews, Matt Subject: RE: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Matt, The following are examples that are related to the Mission Statement: Chad worked on shortening this as much as possible as per our conversation on Friday • Fundamental Economics: The Division worked with the Sampson County Economic Development Commission and Enviva to reevaluate features that the Corps of Engineers had determined to be isolated wetlands during the extreme of the drought in 2010. We were able to look at the features during our current "normal" rainfall condition and determine that they didn't meet wetland criteria so no isolated wetland permit would be required for work on the site. Enviva proposes to develop wood pellet production facility, which would use trees harvested in the region to produce wood pellets to be exported to Europe to be used in power generation plants. They state that the project would bring an investment of between $95 million -$117 million in taxable property, as well as 79 direct jobs at an average salary of $37,000. They also estimate that there will be 130 indirect jobs in the forest supply and logistics chain, and 300 contractor and project crew jobs during the construction of the facility. Enviva estimates that there could be $35 million in purchases in the local logging and forestry industry. • Fundamental Philosophy & Economics: The Annual Wastewater Treatment Plant and Collection System Operators Trainings that are sponsored and coordinated with NCRWA in our region each year. Operators receive their 6 hours of required continuing education and there is no cost to the municipalities or industries. • Fundamental Economics: Our region has supported and encouraged regionalization of our wastewater treatment plants for economic benefits for municipal systems examples: Fort Bragg to Harnett County, Ellerbe to City of Rockingham, Town of Vass to Moore County Regional. Regionalization improves water quality by combining several wastewater treatment plants into a larger more efficient facility which saves money and resources. Thank you for the opportunity. Belinda From: Matthews, Matt Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:15 AM To: Adams, Amy; Basinger, Corey; Cranford, Chuck; Gregson, Jim; Henson, Belinda; Parker, Michael; Smith, Danny; Belnick, Tom; Chapman, Amy; Gore, Deborah; Hennessy, John; Higgins, Karen; Karoly, Cyndi; Montgomery, Lori; Poupart, Jeff; Risgaard, Jon Cc: Zimmerman, Jay; Watts, Debra Subject: FW: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Importance: High See message below. I need examples of success stories (on the surface water side) related to the mission statement. E -mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. Matt Matthews Department of Environment and Natural R... Water Permitting Section Chief (919) 807 - 6334 Work matt.matthews@ncdenr.gov 5:12 N. Salisbury Street 27604 http:Pportal.ncdenr.orgir veb jq/s,,vp From: Bownes, Janice H Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:08 AM To: Fransen, Tom; Godreau, Jessica; Matthews, Matt; Reid, Dianne; Wiggins, Kent; Zimmerman, Jay Cc: Wilson, Nat; Midgette, Robert; Byrd, Roy; Watts, Debra; Reeder, Tom Subject: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Importance: High We've been asked to provide a list of "success stories" for DWR, specifically in relation to the implementation of the mission statement. Please send me a brief (1-2 sentence) synopsis of things your section has accomplished this year. Bob, Jay (Debra) & Matt: you'll want to check with your regional supervisors, too. Nat, please mention your CCPLJA permit review resulting in more flexible permitting. Matt, please include Ashley Furniture. Bob, please include Vance County's savings resulting from expedited permitting for installation of water supply lines (Tom says Richard Dickie was heavily involved inthis). Many thanks, Janice H. Downes Special Projects Coordinator Division of Water Resources Phone: 919-707-9034 please note new telephone number Email correspondence to and fro this address may be subje t to the North Carolina Public Records Low and may b disclosed to third p rties unless the content is exempt by statute or other re_ �Iation. Higgins, Karen From: Higgins, Karen Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 10:36 AM To: Matthews, Matt Cc: Karoly, Cyndi Subject: RE: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie I'm guessing that Ashley Furniture will be the talking point for this part of the program, but the only other success story I can think of during the term of this new administration was the Sampson County Economic Development project. There is a new industry being proposed on a site that had ^35 acres of isolated wetlands. They were proposing to impact —16 acres, which mitigating at 2:1 would be — $1.6 million (they were in a high fee HUC). We were working with them to come up with creative solutions, including mitigating in an adjacent HUC that is the lower fee, preservation, out -of -kind mitigation... We ended up doing a site visit with the new consultant in June and determined that they needed a new delineation as most of the proposed impact areas did not appear to be wetlands. In the end, none of the proposed impact areas were wetlands, so the project did not need a permit and they did not need to provide any mitigation, saving Sampson County —1.6 million dollars. Thanks- Karen Karen Higgins 401 & Buffer Permitting Unit NCDENR - Division of Water Resources - Water Quality Programs 1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699 -1650 Phone: (919) 807 -6360 Email: karen.higgins @ncdenr.gov Website: http: / /Portal.ncdenr.org /web /wq /swp /ws /webscape E -mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. From: Matthews, Matt Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:15 AM To: Adams, Amy; Basinger, Corey; Cranford, Chuck; Gregson, Jim; Henson, Belinda; Parker, Michael; Smith, Danny; Belnick, Tom; Chapman, Amy; Gore, Deborah; Hennessy, John; Higgins, Karen; Karoly, Cyndi; Montgomery, Lori; Poupart, Jeff; Risgaard, Jon Cc: Zimmerman, Jay; Watts, Debra Subject: FW: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Importance: High See message below. I need examples of success stories (on the surface water side) related to the mission statement. E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. Matt Matthews Department of Environment and Natural R... Water Permitting Section Chief (919) 807-6334 Work matt.matthews@ncdenr.gov 5,12M. Salisbury Street 27604 From: Bownes ]anioeH Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 10:08 AM To: Fnansen,Tom; GoUreau,]essica; Matthews Matt; Reid, Dianne; Wiggins, Kent; Zimmerman, ]ay Cc: Wilson, Nat; Midgette, Robert; Byrd, Roy; Watts, Debra; Reeder, Tom Subject: Talking points for Mitch Gillespie Importance: High We've been asked to provide a list of "success stories" for DWR, specifically in relation to the implementation of the mission statement. Please send me a brief (1-2 sentence) synopsis of things your section has accomplished this year. Bob, Jay (Debra) & Matt: you'll want to check with your regional supervisors, too. Nat, please mention your CCPUA permit review resulting in more flexible permitting. Matt, please include Ashley Furniture. Bob, please include Vance County's savings resulting from expedited permitting for installation of water supply lines (Tom says Richard Dickie was heavily involved inthis). Many thanks, Janice H. Downes Special Projects Coordinator Division of Water Resources Phone: 919-707-9034 please note new telephone number Email correspondence to and fro this address may be subje t to the North Carolina Public Records Low and may b disclosed to third oarties unless the content is exemot bv statute or other reaulation.