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CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
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Tyrrell County Board of Commissioners
Attn: Mr. Willie Mac Carawan, Jr.
Assistant County Administrator
PO Box 449
Columbia, North Carolina 27925
Subject Property: Rider's Creek Canal and Lateral A
Dear Mr. Carawan:
February 2, 2006
Tyrrell County
On February 1, 2006 the NC Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received a copy of the Corps of Engineers Public Notice
for Rider's Creek Canal and Lateral A project. The comment period ended March 1 2006. An Individual 404 Permit will be
required for this project. Please note that the following must be received prior to issuance of a 401 Water Quality
Certification:
1. The 401 Certification cannot be processed until five (5) complete sets of the application and associated maps is
received at the DWQ Central Office in Raleigh along with the appropriate fee.
2. Please note that beginning January 1, 1999, the N.C. General Assembly passed legislation requiring payment of a fee
for all 401 applications. The fee for applications is $200 for projects impacting less than an acre of wetland and less
than 150 linear feet of streams. For projects impacting one or more acres of wetland or 150 or more feet of streams, the
fee is $475. Please make that check payable to the NC Division of Water Quality in your response.
3. It is our understanding that state funds (through the Division of Water Resources) are being used for this project. If that
is the case, then the Division of Water Quality cannot act on the required 401 Water Quality Certification until a final
environmental document is circulated and completed under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). Please
address whether state funds are. involved and, if so, the status of the SEPA document.
4. The Public Notice discusses impact to 5.64 acres of riparian wetlands but does not discuss compensatory wetland
mitigation. Please provide a response as to how compensatory mitigation will be provided by this project.
5. The Public Notice does not address alternatives for this project. If these are addressed in the SEPA document referred
to in item 3 above, then the Division can review that discussion in that document. If a SEPA document is not being
prepared, then please provide a written discussion of alternatives for this project.
Until the information requested in this letter is provided, I will request (by copy of this letter) that the Corps of Engineers
place this project on hold. Thank you for your attention. If you have any questions, please contact me in the Central Office
in Raleigh at [phone].
cc: Tom Steffens, Corps of Engineers Wilmington Regulatory Field Office
Kyle Barnes, DWQ Regional Office, Wilmington
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N. C. Division of Water Quality, 401 Wetlands Certification Unit,
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1650 (Mailing Address)
2321 Crabtree Blvd., Raleigh, NC 27604-2260 (Location)
[phone] (phone), 919-733-6893 (fax), (http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands)
Customer Service #: 1-877-623-6748
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