Credit Release Task 2

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ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S. BISER
Secretary
RICHARD E. ROGERS, JR.
Director
John Hutton
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
July 21, 2023
Wildlands Holdings VI, LLC
(via electronic mail: jhuttongwildlandseng com )
DWR Project #: 2020-1096
Re: Wildlands Catawba Umbrella Mitigation Banking Instrument (UMBI)
Firestone Bank Parcel Credit Release — Task 2
Dear Mr. Hutton:
Catawba County
On June 21, 2023, the Division of Water Resources (DWR) received documentation from Wildlands
Holdings VI, LLC (Wildlands) that the subject site had been constructed in its entirety and
monitoring plots had been installed. On July 12, 2023, Blake Hartshorn with DWR, with assistance
from staff with Wildlands, inspected the site and confirmed that all the subject site had been
completely planted, all monitoring plots were installed, and all stream mitigation activities appeared
to be completed with all riparian areas, including the stream banks, seeded and stabilized. Required
fencing was installed and the conservation easement was adequately marked.
Lastly, DWR received a performance bond (#107688095) issued to Wildlands from Travelers
Casualty and Surety Company of America, in the amount of $150,000, to cover performance
obligations for the construction of the subject site. The term of this bond will remain in effect until
DWR has provided a written approval of the As -Built Report.
In accordance with the UMBI, signed on September 12, 2022, the following Project Milestones have
been met and the corresponding credits shall be released:
Cattle
Non -Cattle
Exclusion
Exclusion
Credits
Task/Milestones
Credits
Released
Released
2) All Riparian Earthwork & Mitigation Activities, Planting and
40%
20%
Installation of Monitoring devices completed, easement
boundaries adequately marked, all applicable permits obtained,
stream mitigation activities completed & a site visit performed by
DWR
7) Item B (1) of Section X in the UMBI (assign the easement
5%
Already released
to stewardship) has been completed and approved by DWR
TOTAL RELEASED:
45%
20%
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
512 North Salisbury Street 1 1611 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1611
NORTH CARCLINA
919.707.9000

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Firestone Site
Wildlands
July 21, 2023
By copy of this correspondence, DWR confirms that you have satisfied the above requirements for
the above -referenced tract and therefore, the following credits are being released and are now
available to sell:
• 20% of buffer restoration and buffer preservation credits
(0.20 x 416,330.106 ft2 = 83,266.021 ft2)
• 45% of buffer enhancement via cattle exclusion credits (0.45 x 27,267 ft2 = 12,270.15 ft2 )
Please note that these riparian buffer credits can be provided to offset permitted impacts along
the Catawba River mainstem below Lake James and along mainstem lakes from and including
Lake James to the North Carolina and South Carolina border in the Catawba River Basin in
accordance with guidelines in the Consolidated Buffer Mitigation Rule, 15A NCAC 02B .0295,
which became effective on November 1, 2015.
Please feel free to contact Katie Merritt at katie.merrittkdeq.nc. og_v if you have any questions
regarding this correspondence.
Sincerely,
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Stephanie Goss, Supervisor
401 & Buffer Permitting Branch
cc:File Copy (Katie Merritt)
Camden Brunick (Wildlands) — via electronic mail
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