NCG030246_DOSA Letter_20240403

POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL, BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, John J. McGirr, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, OFC, of Corning Optical Communications LLC, a North
Carolina limited liability company ("COC"), hereby authorizes and empowers Carl Smith,
effective as of February 15, 2024, retaining full rights of revocation and substitution, to execute
and deliver, for and on behalf of COC, limited to COC's Trivium Cable Facility and Hickory
Manufacturing and Technology Center (HMTC), located in Hickory, North Carolina, the
following:
(i) permit applications to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
(NCDEQ);
(ii) reports and other submissions to NCDEQ;
(iii) environmental permit applications to other state, federal and local authorities; and
(iv) reports and other submissions to federal, state, and local authorities required to
comply with environmental regulatory requirements.
This Power of Attorney will expire on December 31, 2024.
This Power of Attorney shall not revoke any powers of attorney previously executed by the
undersigned. This Power of Attorney shall not be revoked by any subsequent power of attorney
that the undersigned may execute, unless such subsequent power of attorney expressly provides
that it revokes this Power of Attorney by referring to the date of the undersigned's execution of
this Power of Attorney and subject hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney on the date
indicated opposite his name
`^ March 2024
J hn . McGirr
Se ror Vice President and General
Manager, OFC,
Corning Optical Communications
LLC
State of � ' )
County of hkak-( n618s.:
On the I1 day of March in the year 2024, before me, the undersigned, personally appeared
John J. McGirr, personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to
be the individual whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me
that he executed the same in his capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument, the
individual, or the person upon behalf of which the individuals acted, executed the instrument.
Notary Publics----
ELIZABETtHALL
Notary Public- rolinaCaldwellMy Commission Ex 9, 2028
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