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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
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DEPARTTiIENT OF TRANSPORTATION
MICFIAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
Mr. William D. Gilmore, P.E.
EEP Transition Manager
Ecosystem Enhancement Program
1652 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1652
Dear Sir:
LYNDO TIPPETT
SECRETARY
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MAR 1 6 2005
DENR -WATER QUALITY
1NETWrDS AND STORMWATER BRANCH
Subject: Request for additional stream mitigation for the widening of NC 67 from SR 1355
(Messick Road) to US 601 in Booneville, Yadkin County. State Project
No. 6.771008. Division 11. R-3415.
The purpose of this letter is to request that the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement
Program (EEP) provide confirmation that you are willing to provide compensatory mitigation for
the project in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed July 22, 2003 by
the USACE, the NCDENR and the NCDOT. This letter supercedes a previous request dated
November 29, 2004 and December 13, 2004. Since these requests impact numbers have
changed.
RESOURCES UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF SECTION 404 AND 401 OF THE CLEAN
WATER ACT.
We have avoided and minimized the impacts to jurisdictional resources to the greatest extent
possible as described in the permit application. There are jurisdictional stream impacts that need
compensatory mitigation. This mitigation will be provided by the EEP program. An application
for a Nationwide Permit will be submitted upon receipt of acceptance of this mitigation. A copy
of the permit application, when submitted, can be found at
http://www.ncdot.org/planning/pe/naturalunitJApplications.html.
The project is located in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin in Hydrological Cataloguing Unit
03040101. Additional impacts of 14 ft of cool water streams will occur.
• Revised total impacts for the entire project are to 12121inear feet of streams (937 ft of cool
water streams, 275 ft of warm water streams).
Please send the letter of confirmation for these revised stream impact totals to John
Thomas (USACE Coordinator) at U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Raleigh Regulatory Field
MAILING ADDRESS: LOCATION:
NC DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TELEPHONE: [phone] CAPITAL BLVD.
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS FAX: [phone] PARKER LINCOLN BUILDING, SUITE 168
1598 MAIL SERVICE CENTER RALEIGH NC 27604
RALEIGH NC 27699-1598 WEBSITE: WWW.NCDOT.ORG
March 9, 2005

Office, 6508 Falls of Neuse Rd,. Suite120, Raleigh, NC 27615-6814. Mr. Thomas' FAX number
is 919-876-5823.
In order to satisfy regulatory assurances that mitigation will be performed; the NCDWQ
requires a formal letter from EEP indicating their willingness and ability to provide the
mitigation work requested by NCDOT. The NCDOT requests such a letter of confirmation be
addressed to Mr. John Hennessy of NCDWQ, with copies submitted to NCDOT.
If you have any questions or need additional information please call Rachelle Beauregard
at 919-715-1383.
Sincerely,
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~„ Grego J. Thorpe, Ph.D., Manager
Project Development and Environmental Analysis Branch
cc:
Mr. John Thomas, USACE
~. John Hennessy, NCDWQ
Mr. Travis Wilson, NCWRC
Mr. Gary Jordan, USFWS
Mr. Omar Sultan, Assistant Manager, Project Management/SchedulingUnit
Ms. Laurie P. Smith, CPA, Manager, Funds Administration
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