20072055 Ver 1_Other Agency Correspondence_20080104

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
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WILMINGTON DISTRICT
Action Id.: SAW-2007-00064 County: New Hanover U.S.G.S. Quad: Wilmington
INCOMPLETE APPLICATION
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Applicant: The Oleander Company, Inc. Agent: Cape Fear Engineering, Inc. D 1,~'=. ~ ~ _,
Attn: Mr. Nelson McRae Attn: Ms. Noelle Winstead
1303-A Independence Boulevard 151 Poole Road, Suite 100 JA.!~a 4 ~~(~$
Wilmington, NC 28406 Belville, NC 28461
WETLANDS AND STORMWATER EiF.F1hsCH
Telephone #: [phone]
Location/Description of Proposed Activity: The 108.23 acre project area is located along the eastside of
Independence Boulevard, just south of Alderman Elementary School, extends to Shipyard Boulevard, in
wetlands adjacent to an unnamed tributary to Hewletts Creek, in Wilmington, New Hanover County,
North Carolina. The applicant has submitted a Preconstruction Notification Application for verification
under Nationwide Permit 29 for 0.54 acres of proposed impacts (0.49 permanent, 0.05 temporary) to
jurisdictional wetlands for the purpose of constructing a residential apartment complex, Independence
Apartments.
Type of Permit Applied For (check one): IP Q NWP (X) GP ( )
Applicable law: Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (X ); Section 10, Rivers and Harbor Act ( )
YOUR APPLICATION IS INCOMPLETE AND CANNOT BE PROCESSED UNTIL THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION IS RECEIVED (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY):
^ Your application form has not been completed and/or signed (see remarks)
^ Under the conditions of the Nationwide Permit, mitigation is required for your project. The mitigation
proposal submitted with your application is either insufficient or absent (see remarks).
Avoidance and Minimization: Your application does not demonstrate that your project's design
avoids and minimizes impacts to jurisdictional wetlands to the maximum extent practicable.
Please submit additional documentation (alternative site designs with corresponding economic
analyses, parking/setback requirements, for example) that clearly establishes that you have no
practical alternative to the proposed impacts.
^ Your submitted project plans or maps were insufficient, too large, or not legible (see remarks).
^ Your application did not include a delineation of affected special aquatic sites, including wetlands,
vegetated shallows, and riffle and pool complexes as required.
^ You must submit a copy of your application to the NC Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC) since
your proposed work is in a designated trout water county (see remarks section below for the address of
your WRC representative)

o Other (see remarks below).
REMARKS: none.
Please submit the above information within 30 days of receipt of this Notification or we will consider your
application withdrawn and close the file.
Date: l/2/2008
Corps Regulatory Official: Jennifer S. F e Telephone No.: 910-251-4923
Corps Regulatory Field Office Address: USACE Wilmington Regulatory Field Office, PO Box 1890,
Wilmington, NC 28412-1890
cc:
Chad Coburn, DENR-DWQ Wilmington Regional Office, 127 Cardinal Dr. Ext., Wilmington, NC 28405
WQ 401 OversightlExpress Review Permitting Unit, 2321 Crabtree Blvd, Suite 250, Raleigh, NC 27604