20130986 Ver 1_Approval Letter_20131030

Pat McCrory
Govemor
October 30, 2013
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North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Division of Water Resources
Water Quality Programs
Thomas A. Reeder
Director
Tim Newell
Cullowhee River Club, LLC.
68 South Watehutta Road
Cullowhee, North Carolina 28732
Subject: 401 Water Quality Certification - Approval
Cullowhee River Club, LLC.
DWQ Project # 2013 -0986
Jackson County
LTN02 / Tuckasegee River / 2- 79 -(24) / Class WSIH, B, Tr
Dear Mr. Newell:
John E. Skvada, III
Secretary
The Division of Water Resources has completed the review of your 401 Water Quality Certification
application associated with the subject project listed above.
Approval has been granted to place fill within or otherwise impact 689 linear feet of streams for the purpose
of residential development at the subject property. This approval requires you to follow the conditions
listed in the attached Certification and any additional conditions listed below.
Project impacts are covered by General Water Quality Certification Numbers 3883, 3885, and 3890. This
Certification allows you to use Nationwide Permits 3, 13, 29, and 36 when issued by the US Army Corps of
Engineers ( USACE). 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
corresponding USACE Permit Verification. In addition, you should obtain or otherwise comply with any
other required federal, state or local permits before you proceed with your project including (but not limited
to) Erosion and Sediment Control, and Water Supply Watershed and Trout Buffer regulations.
This approval is for the purpose and design that you described in your application. If you change your
project, you must notify us and may be required to submit a new application.
Impacts Approved
The following impacts are hereby approved as long as all of the other specific and general conditions of this
Certification are met. No other impacts are approved including incidental impacts:
Location: 2090 U.S. Highway 70, Swannanoa, North Carolina 28778
Phone: [phone] FAX: [phone]
Internet: www.ncwatorquality.org
An Equal Opportunity \ Affirmative Action Employer
Amount Approved
nits
Plan Location or
Reference
Stream
149 feet
Culvert Installation
Location: 2090 U.S. Highway 70, Swannanoa, North Carolina 28778
Phone: [phone] FAX: [phone]
Internet: www.ncwatorquality.org
An Equal Opportunity \ Affirmative Action Employer

Cullowhee River Club, LLC.
October 30, 2013
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Stream
40 feet
Culvert Replacement
Stream
500 feet
Shoreline' Stabilization
Violations of any condition herein set forth may result in revocation of this Certification and may result in
criminal and/or civil penalties.
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 your application by the Division of Water Resources under Section 401 of
the Clean Water Act. If you have any questions, please contact Kevin Barnett in the Asheville Regional
Office at (828) 296 -4657.
Sincerely,
for Thomas A. Reeder
TAR/khb
Enc: GC3883, 3885, and 3890
Certificate of Completion
cc: Jennifer Robertson, Atlas Environmental
David Brown, USACE Asheville Regulatory Field Office
David McHenry, NC Wildlife Resources Commission
WBSCP Unit — Central Office
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