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Home My WebLink About20140957 Ver 1_Emails_20140829Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Y`a|[ | was recently contacted bv the consultant for the Southeast Reliability Project (SERP) Dominion's natural gas pipeline that will go through 3 states, including North Carolina (200 miles). It will likely be a 36" pipe with a 125'wide easement, There is no current ROW for the pipeline to follow. From Wilmington's website, it looks like these regulators/project managers will be involved: Craig Brown: Northampton, Halifax, Nash and Wilson Counties Tyler Crumbley: Cumberland and Sampson Counties Emily Hughes: Robeson David Shaeffer: Johnston I talked with Dale Beter on 8/26 and he said that he had discussed the project with Scott. Scot thought that since the majority of the project fell within the area covered by the Raleigh Office, that the Raleigh Office should take the lead for permitting. I talked with David Bailey (Acting Chief), and he figured since I had the most counties impacted by the project, that | should be the lead on the project. So far, we have had the teleconference back on May 27th (call log attached for those that didn't receive an email from Daryn Duckter), and a call | recently received from the consultant on the project (SpencerTricheU out of Natural Resources Group located in Charlotte) which led to information he provided inthe email below. I have assigned this project the action id: SAW-2014-01558 |\e asked the Dominion contact (William Scarpinato) to provide complete contact information and will enter that in ORM when I receive it. The consultant, Spencer, thinks that FERQ will probably be doing amEIS for the project (rather than anEA). He's looking at next spring or early summer for the JD verifications, however he stated that he wanted to submit the USACE application in September or October. The idea being that FERQ, the Corps and State would be working concurrently so that the project will get started quickly. I'm thinking that vvewould need SHPO, B6, public interest concerns, etc to be worked out before we could issue a permit. However, early submission would allow us time to review the impacts and get the permit out quickly once the EIS is completed, Just mythoughts. b should be noted that the consultant put together the map aLmy request, and it is just a preliminary map and confidential. The consultant has requested a meeting in the Raleigh Office for September 30th at 2:00. Jennifer Burclette (buffers) wil' be able to attend on that date. I know Emily can't make it (I can send a summary of the meeting), but was wondering about Tyler and Shaeffer. If you would like to be at the meeting, let me know if that date is OK for you. That's about all the info I have, but will pass along other info as received. Craig Craig 1Brown USA[E Raleigh Regulatory Field Office 3331 Heritage Trade Drive Wake Forest, NC 27587 /919>554-4884x35 --- Original Message ----- From: SpencerThcheU Sent: Thursday, August 28,2O14I1:41AK4 To: Brown, Craig JSAW; Cc Wade Hammer; William AScarpinato (Services -G); Randy RoQens,]c Subject: [EXTERNAL] SERP - Permit Meeting Mr. Brown and Ms. Burclette, We appreciate your willingness to work with us to set up a meeting to further discuss the Southeast Reliability Project proposed by Dominion. The project contact at Dominion will be William (Bill) 3oarpinaLn (copied on this email) and NRG will be working as the agent for the CVVA Section 404/401submittal. | have attached a draft copy uf the project map depicting the North Carolina portion of the project per your request. As discussed during our May 27, 2014 introductory project call with each of your respective agencies, the project will require a certificate from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who will be the lead federal agency charged with coordinating the NEPA review for the project. Please note that Dominion is providing the attached map in confidence to facilitate early planning and routing. Dominion requests that these items be protected as confidential/trade secret commercial information pursuant to NI.G.6. §132-12(1), not for distribution outside of your agency. As discussed, we would like to meet with you on September 30 at 2:00 at the USACE regional field office in Raleigh. Please let me know if this time still works and | will send out a meeting invite. Spencer Thche|LPVVS (98O)297-7279Direct (7O4) 3O1-75U3Cell (980) 297-7272 Fax Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE 5,10�110 o m 'in olon Virginia 77--Ra-h,,,CAr6,11Jn,,a, 300 No,th, .... pl rx C', 10 CO, 330 340 /3' 350 Raleigh ,mo ff 370 Ov , 4 'VIA 7w 390 d/. 400 410 ('.dl'2 0 Cu,i ""'fland 430 Sa "(0 450 e. 460 47? G\/ 10 20 I Miles Study Corridor Southeast Reliability Project General Location Map Lateral North Carolina FILE M 01-10--M44FEP, REVISED 0&2.8)2014 SCALE I ICW 000— p-I., at " � J7� FD 0, SOUTHEAST RELIABILITY PROJECT MEETING WITH U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — Wilmington District oxrs. LocArmw: May 27, 2014 | Conference Line ATTENDEES AND THEIR AFFILIATION: Craig Brown, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers —VVi|nninQton District Tyler Crunnblev U.8. Army Corps of Enginenre — VVihninotonOistrict Ernik/ Hughee, U.S. Army Corps of Engineeno — VVi|rninoton [)iathot Bill 8oaq)inato, Jr, Dominion Transmission, Inc. Randy Rogers, GA| Consultants, Inc. Oaryn [}ooktor. Natural Resource Group, LLC SpanoerTriche||, Natural Resource Group, LLC Wade Hammer, Natural Resource Group, LLC PREPARED BY: Wade Hammer Southeast Reliability Project |nbnduntion—VVeU8ndandVVmierbodyGunxeyP|onning Meeting MEETING MINUTES: Natural Resource Group, LLC, on behalf of Dominion Transmission, Inc., arranged a meeting with project managers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (CC)E) Wilmington District including Craig Brown. Ty|erCrurnb|ey, and Emily Hughes. After introductions by each participant, the meeting began with a description of the proposed interstate natural gas transmission pipeline project by Dominion Transmission, Inc., referred to as the Southeast Reliability Project (SERP). The SERP will be located in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina and approximately 200 nni|ee of pipeline will be located in North Carolina. The lead federal agency for this natural gas transmission pipeline will be the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission /FEF<[}\. Field surveys to identify water naeour000 are scheduled to begin in mid-June where qualified biologists will identify wetlands and weterbodiem along the proposed project rouha. Field surveys are expected to continue into spring 2015 and permit applications are expected to be prepared and submitted to the C{JEVVi|mington District in 2015. Stream survey protocol requirements were discussed. Streams will be identified and mapped via GPS along the proposed project route. ThaCDE project managers confirmed that a otn*orn que|hv assessment worksheet (version 06/03) is required for each stream within the study area that will be crossed by the 8EF7P. In addition to the stream quality assessment worksheet (SQAVV)' NRG in planning to identify streams in accordance with the North Carolina Division of Water Quality ([)VVC)) Methodology for Identification of Intermittent and Perennial Streams and Their Origins, Version 4.11 using the associated stream identification form to support permitting with the [)VV{). The {|(}E project managers indicated these forms will be helpful in their decision making and informing compensatory mitigation requirements. Field Survey Data Collection Protocols for Southeast Reliability Project U.S. Army Corps of Engineers —Wilmington District May 27.2O14 Page 2nf2 For wetland surveys, the 1987 COE wetland determination manual and appropriate regional supplement will b*used. The CC)E project nnanmgeraoonfinnedthatnoodditionu|vveUondsurv8y methods or forms are required for their review purposes. VVhi|o a functional ueuesemnerd for wetlands is being developed in North Carolina, the assessment is not being implemented by the CC)E. It was also confirmed that 4 strata for vegetation sampling is sufficient for their review compared to5strata. When collecting G|G data, field staff will use {3PS units capable of sub-meter accuracy, ThaC[)E project managers confirmed these methndmare appropriate and the Wilmington District has no apeoificG|S data collection n*quinennente. C(]E staff indicated review of boundaries, or site verifination, should be anticipated. The CC>E staff recommended starting the review process early to account for the time required to complete the Site verifications prior to permit submittal. The C(]E staff made the distinction that the verification of the field surveys will be conducted by multiple staff assigned to designated counties prior to and separately from the permit review. Permit review will likely be conducted by one project manager assigned to the p jeotofterverifioation. Ae such, COE staff suggested that vve initiate verification once the field surveys are complete. At the conclusion of the call, the C[)E project managers recommended the project use the Wilmington District's Jurisdictional Determination Request form for application preparation and as pad of the Preliminary Jurisdictional Determination (PJD) process. K4e. Hughes recommended use of the PJ[)process. Co: Project Files