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Burdette, Jennifer a
From: Bowers, Todd <bowers.todd @epa.gov>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 3:39 PM
To: Brown, Craig J SAW; leslie.hartz @dom.com; william.a.scarpinato @dom.com
Cc: kevin.bowman @ferc.gov; Burdette, Jennifer a; Cox, David R.; Ellis, John; Gibson, Steven
W NAO; Gledhill - earley, Renee; fritz.rhode @noaa.gov
Subject: RE: Atlantic Coast Pipeline - Incomplete Application letter - North Carolina
(UNCLASSIFIED)
Craig,
I hope I am understanding this correctly. Nationwide Permit #12 for Utility Line Activities is basically for:
Activities required for the construction, maintenance, repair, and removal of utility lines and associated facilities in waters
of the United States, provided the activity does not result in the loss of greater than 1/2 -acre of waters of the United
States for each single and complete project.
How does a 200 -mile section of pipeline not incur less than substantial losses to wetlands, stream and other aquatic
resources as it crosses 8 counties in the coastal plain and /or lower piedmont of North Carolina? Does a single project
become two or more separate projects if it crosses District lines? How are other Districts handling this? Should this really
be permitted under a Nationwide #12?
Just a few thoughts that came up when I saw the incomplete application.
-Todd
Todd Allen Bowers
Wetlands Regulatory Project Manager - NC Region 4 Water Protection Division US Environmental Protection Agency
61 Forsyth St. SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
404.562.9225 office
404.562.9343 fax
bowers.todd @epa.gov
www.epa.gov /region4 /water /wetlands
"A thing is right if it tends to preserve the beauty, integrity and stability of the biotic community; it is wrong when it tends
otherwise."
Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic," A Sand County Almanac
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From: Brown, Craig J SAW [ mailto :Craig.J.Brown @usace.army.mil]
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