NC0046345_Remission (Decision)_20240614_TX-2024-0001

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ROY COOPER
Governor
ELIZABETH S.BISER
Secretary
RICHARD E.ROGERS,JR. NORTH CAROLINA
Director Environmental Quality
6/14/2024
CERTIFIED MAIL 7019 1120 0001 4877 6208
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Summer Woodard, City Manager
City of Reidsville
230 West Morehead Street
Reidsville,NC 27320
Subject: Remission Request of Civil Penalty Assessment
NPDES Permit NCO046345
Reidsville WTP
Rockingham County
Case Number: TX-2024-0001
Dear Permitee:
The Division of Water Resources has considered the information submitted in support of your request
for remission in accordance with G.S. 143-215.6A(f) and remitted$3,000.00 of the $3,069.48 total
penalty assessment. The revised amount due is $69.48, for the investigative costs. A copy of the
remission decision is attached.
Two options are available to you at this stage of the remission process:
You may pay the remaining enforcement costs of$69.48.
If you decide to pay the penalty,please make your check in the amount of$69.48, payable to the
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Send the payment within thirty (30) calendar days of
your receipt of this letter to the attention of.
Wren Thedford
NC DEQ-DWR—NPDES Permitting
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh,North Carolina 27699-1617
OR
You may decide to have the Environmental Management Commission's (EMC's) Committee on
Civil Penalty Remissions make the final decision on your remission request.
If payment is not received within 30 calendar days from your receipt of this letter, your request for
remission with its supporting documents, and the recommendation of the Division of Water Resources
will be delivered to the EMC's Committee on Civil Penalty Remissions for a final agency decision.
D E Q�� North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
512 North Salisbury Street 1 1617 Mail Service Center I Raleigh,North Carolina 27699-1617
NORTH CAROLINA 919.707.9000
OepoNnem of Environmental Uoeltly

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You have the option of presenting your request in person to the EMC's Committee on Civil Penalty
Remissions. If you or your representative would like to speak before the Committee, you must
complete and return the attached Request for Oral Presentation Form within thirty(30) calendar days
of receipt of this letter. Send the completed form to:
Caroline Robinson
NC DEQ-DWR—NPDES Permitting
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh,North Carolina 27699-1617
Please be advised that if an in-person presentation is not requested, the Committee's decision regarding
your remission request will be based upon the written record.
Please be advised that the EMC's Committee on Civil Penalty Remissions will make its remission
decision based on the original assessment amount. Therefore, the Committee may choose to
uphold the original penalty amount and offer no remission,it may agree with the Division of
Water Resources' remission recommendation detailed above, or the penalty amount may be
further remitted.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions, please contact Caroline
Robinson at 919-707-9130, or via e-mail at [e-mail].
Sincerely,
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o n ection Chief Regional Operations
NPDES Permitting
Division of Water Resources
Attachments:DWR Civil Assessment Remission Factor Sheet(copy)&
Request for Oral Presentation Sheet
ec: Enforcement File: TX-2024-0001 [Laserfiche]
DWR WQ Regional Operations—Winston-Salem Regional Office [Laserfiche]

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION
COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM DWQ Case Number TX-2024-0001
IN THE MATTER OF ASSESSMENT OF )
CIVIL PENALTIES AGAINST: ) REQUEST FOR ORAL PRESENTATION
The City of Reidsville
I hereby request to make an oral presentation before the Environmental Management
Commission's Committee on Civil Penalty Remissions in the matter of the case noted
above. In making this request, I assert that I understand all of the following statements:
• This request will be reviewed by the Chairman of the Environmental Management Commission
and may be either granted or denied.
• Making a presentation will require the presence of myself and/or my representative during a
Committee meeting held in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• My presentation will be limited to discussion of issues and information submitted in my original
remission request, and because no factual issues are in dispute, my presentation will be limited to five
(5) minutes in length.
The North Carolina State Bar's Authorized Practice of Law Committee has ruled that the appearance in a
representative capacity at quasi-judicial hearings or proceedings is limited to lawyers who are active
members of the bar. Proceedings before the Committee on Remissions are quasi-judicial.You should
consider how you intend to present your case to the Committee in light of the State Bar's opinion and
whether anyone will be speaking in a representative capacity for you or a business or governmental entity.
If you or your representative would like to speak before the Committee, you must complete and return this
form within thirty(30) days of receipt of this letter.
Depending on your status as an individual,corporation,partnership or municipality,the State Bar's Opinion affects
how you may proceed with your oral presentation. See www.nebar.com/ethics,Authorized Practice Advisory Opinion
2006-1 and 2007 Formal Ethics Opinion 3.
• If you are an individual or business owner and are granted an opportunity to make an oral presentation before
the Committee,then you do not need legal representation before the Committee;however,if you intend on
having another individual speak on your behalf regarding the factual situations, such as an expert, engineer
or consultant,then you must also be present at the meeting in order to avoid violating the State Bar's Opinion
on the unauthorized practice of law.
• If you are a corporation,partnership or municipality and are granted an opportunity to make an oral
presentation before the Committee,then your representative must consider the recent State Bar's Opinion
and could be considered practicing law without a license if he or she is not a licensed attorney. Presentation of
facts by non-lawyers is permissible.
If you choose to request an oral presentation,please make sure that signatures on the previously submitted Remission
Request form and this Oral Presentation Request form are: 1)for individuals and business owners,your own
signature and 2)for corporations,partnerships and municipalities,signed by individuals who would not violate the
State Bar's Opinion on the unauthorized practice of law.
Also,be advised that the Committee on Civil Penalty Remissions may choose not to proceed with hearing your case if
the Committee is informed that a violation of the State Bar occurs.
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DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
CIVIL PENALTY REMISSION FACTORS
Case Number: TX-2024-0001 Region: Winston-Salem County: Rockingham
Assessed Entity: Reidsville WTP Permit: NCO046345
❑ (a) Whether one or more of the civil penalty assessment factors were wrongly applied to
the detriment of the petitioner:
❑ (b) Whether the violator promptly abated continuing environmental damage resulting
from the violation:
Permittee States:The City of Reidsville has spent many man hours trying to correct the toxicity
issue, $122,000.00 in professional sludge removal, at least$13,000 in toxicity testing, and$26,650.00
in parts(an aeration unit was added to the lagoons, sluice gates and a common pipe valve were
installed for the sludge removal process,and they started install on new sedimentation mud valves).
The last two multi-dilution tests were 100%or greater and the last pass/fail test was a"pass,"
therefore the City of Reidsville believes that they have finally fixed the issue and are moving forward.
The city has budgeted for more money for continual professional sludge removal to keep the lagoons
in the best shape possible.
DWR Response:This facility has spent over$160,000.00 to correct their aquatic toxicity issues.
Following sludge removal and installing new sedimentation mud valves,they have passed all aquatic
toxicity testing since November 2023.ATB recommends a full remission while retaining enforcement
costs.
❑ (c) Whether the violation was inadvertent or a result of an accident:
❑ (d) Whether the violator had been assessed civil penalties for any previous violations:
❑ (e) Whether payment of the civil penalty will prevent payment for the remaining
necessary remedial actions:
DECISION(Check One)
Request Denied ❑
Full Remission ® Retain Enforcement Costs? Yes ® No ❑
Original Penalty(without Enforcement Costs) $3,000.00
Partial Remission ❑ %100 or $3,000.00
Subtotal $0.00
Retaining Enforcement Costs $69.48
Total Revised Assessm
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