HomeMy WebLinkAbout20071611 Ver 1_More Info Letter_20070924~~~ W A TF9p Michael F. Easley, Governor
`~ G William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
~~-- North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
O ~ Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
September 24, 2007
DWQ Project # 07-1611
Macon County
CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
McGill Associates
Attn: Nate Bowe
PO Box 2259
Asheville, North Carolina 28802
Subject Property: Town of Franklin: Ulco Drive Sewer
® REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Bowe:
On September 19, 2007 the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated August 29,
2007 for the above referenced project. The DWQ has determined that your application was incomplete
and/or provided inaccurate information as discussed below. The DWQ will require additional
information in order to process your application to impact protected wetlands and/or streams on the
subject property. Please provide the following clarifying information so that we may continue to review
your project.
Additional Information Requested:
® OTHER: NW12, Water Quality Certification GC3625 item #2 states: In accordance with
North Carolina General Stature Section 143-215.3D(e), any request for written concurrence
fora 401 Water Quality Certification must include the appropriate fee.
Please note that should you not require written concurrence, this project would be considered a
courtesy copy and no written 401 would be supplied. That is perfectly acceptable since the
impacts are below the threshold. Should you desire written concurrence then a fee of $240
would need to be remitted based on the fee structure outlined below.
® Lack of permitting fee. Please note that beginning July 1, 2007, the N.C. General Assembly
passed an increase for application fees for all regulatory programs administered by DWQ. The
director of DWQ determined that the fee increase would specifically become effective for the
401 Program on September 1, 2007. Applications received as of September 1, 2007 with
insufficient funds to meet the legislation will be return.
The fee for applications is $240 for projects impacting less than an acre of wetland and less
than 150 linear feet of streams whether intermittent or perennial). For projects impacting one
or more acres of wetland or 150 or more feet of streams (whether intermittent or perennial),
the fee is $570.
NorthCarolina
401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit atuCally
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1650
2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Suite 250, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Phone: 919-733-1786 /FAX 919-733-6893 /Internet: httn://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands
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Please contact the DWQ within three weeks of the date of this letter to verify that you have received this
letter and that you remain interested in continuing to pursue permitting of your project and will be
providing the DWQ the requested information at a later date. Please contact this office in writing. If we
do not hear from you within three weeks, we will assume that you no longer want to pursue this project
and we will consider the project as returned.
This letter only addresses the application review and does not authorize any impacts to wetlands, waters
or protected buffers. Please be aware that any impacts requested within your application are not
authorized (at this time) by the DWQ. Please call Mr. Ian McMillan or me at 919-733,-1786 if you have
any questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter.
Cyndi Karoly, Supervisor
401 Oversight/Express Review Permitting Unit
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cc: Kevin Barnett, DWQ Asheville Regional Office
Town of Franklin, Joe Collins, Mayor, 188 West Main St., Franklin, NC 28734
File Copy
Central Files
Filename: 07161 l TOFranklinUcloDrsewer(Macon)_CourtesyorNot