NCG550234_Staff Comments_20220214

Weaver, Charles
From: Weaver, Charles
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 8:35 AM
To: Zhang, Cheng
Cc: Manuel, Vanessa
Subject: RE: NCG550234
NCG550234 had the Billing suspended in 2018 when all previous attempts to contact the owner of record (William
Rucker) failed.
Setting CoCs to No Fee is done to prevent BIMS from generating invoices when we know that there's a new owner — or
at the very least, the old owner has abandoned the property.
The current owners aren't required to pay any back fees. We can't charge a person/entity a permit fee unless they hold
a permit.
Similarly, we can't make someone pay a fee that was billed before they took ownership of the property.
If the current owners will submit an ownership change form, I can renew the CoC and restart Billing. If they don't submit
it, I can make the CoC Inactive.
They are already discharging without a permit, so the RRO could enforce at your discretion (NOV or CPA).
CHW
From: Zhang, Cheng <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2022 3:18 PM
To: Weaver, Charles <[e-mail]>
Subject: NCG550234
Charles,
I inspected the SFR facility in December 2021. 1 noted that the only permit annual fee record in BIMS was in 2004, and
the fee was waived. Is there any reason why the permittee has not been billed since 2004? By the way, all four
inspections by RRO (in 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2021) found that the SFR has not been occupied since at least 2010.
Orange County tax records show that current owner is Marcus Wayne Poole, Leslie O. Wickham Jr., and Thomas Howard
Poole, Trustees of the Mae B. Poole Trust (change of ownership needed), most recent property tax was paid on February
3, 2022, property tax bill was mailed to 8815 Allison Road, Cedar Grove, NC 27231, where the SFR is located. RRO
recently updated our SFR inspection letter template to include billing status, will ask home owners to pay overdue fees.
It appears that the property has not been occupied and maintained for an extended period of time, no annual fees were
billed/paid. There is very little we can do to force the owner to respond. If there are overdue fees, we can threat that if
overdue fees are not paid by a deadline, the COC will be made Inactive. Does this make sense?
Thanks,
Cheng Zhang
Environmental Specialist II
Raleigh Regional Operations Section
Division of Water Resources
919 791 4259 office
919 817 3856 cell
919 788 7159 fax
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