20201505 Ver 1_B-5728 Mitigation Accept_20220106

ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary

NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality

December 20, 2021

Mr. Philip S. Harris, P.E., CPM
Environmental Analysis Unit
North Carolina Department of Transportation
1598 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1598

Dear Mr. Harris:

Subject: Mitigation Acceptance Letter:

B-5728, Replace Bridge 112 over Reedy Fork on NC 87 Alamance County

The purpose of this letter is to notify you that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality –
Division of Mitigation Services (NCDEQ-DMS) will provide the buffer mitigation for the subject project. Based on the
information received from you on December 17, 2021, the impacts are located in CU 03030002 of the Cape Fear River
basin Haw Arm in the Central Piedmont (CP) Eco-Region, and are as follows:

Cape Fear
03030002
Haw Arm
Stream Wetlands Buffer (Sq. Ft.)
Cold Cool Warm Riparian Non-Riparian Coastal Marsh Zone 1 Zone 2
Impacts
(feet/acres) 0 0 0 0 0 0 14,938.000 9,374.000

All buffer mitigation requests and approvals are administrated through the Riparian Restoration Buffer Fund.
The NCDOT will be responsible to ensure that appropriate compensation for the buffer mitigation will be provided in
the agreed upon method of fund transfer. Upon receipt of the NCDWR’s Buffer Authorization Certification, DMS will
transfer funds from the NCDOT 2984 Fund into the Riparian Restoration Buffer Fund. Upon completion of the transfer
payment, NCDOT will have complete its riparian buffer mitigation responsibility for TIP Number B-5728 in Alamance
County. Subsequently, DMS will conduct a review of current NCDOT ILF Program mitigation projects in the river
basin to determine if available buffer mitigation credits exist prior to procuring new buffer assets. If there are buffer
mitigation credits available, then the Riparian Restoration Buffer Fund will purchase the appropriate amount of buffer
mitigation credits from the NCDOT ILF Program.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Ms. Beth Harmon at 919-707-8420.

Sincerely,

James B. Stanfill
DMS Asset Management Supervisor

cc: Ms. Amy Chapman, NCDWR – Raleigh
File: B-5728