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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WILMINGTON DISTRICT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS
69 DARLINGTON AVENUE
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA 28403-1343
REPLY TO
ATTENTION OF:
April 14, 2016
Regulatory Division/1200A
Action ID No. SAW -2007-01188
Ms. Tiffani Bylow
Restoration Systems, LLC
1101 Haynes Street, Suite 211
Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
Dear Ms. Bylow:
NC Department of
Environmental Quality
Received
APR 18 2015
Winston-Salem
Regional Office
This correspondence is in reference to the Cripple Creek Stream and Wetland Mitigation
Bank you are developing located east of Roney -Lineberry Road, north of Woodbrooke Drive,
south of Deep Creek Church Road and west of North Fonville Road, in northeast Alamance
County, North Carolina, within the Cape Fear River Basin, Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)
03030002. The purpose of this letter is to confirm the release of additional wetland credits from
this Bank.
The release of these additional credits results from wetlands that have formed on the site, but
were not shown in the final mitigation plan received on March 3, 2009. During the Year 1
Monitoring site visit conducted on November 28, 2011, the United States Army Corps of
Engineers agreed to consider the potential release of additional wetland credits for this area,
providing that Restoration Systems, LLC installed a wetland hydrology monitoring well and
provided data for a period of 5 years. Based on our March 8, 2016, field verification of the
wetland/upland boundary for the 0.51 acre wetland area and our review of five (5) years of
wetland hydrology monitoring for the area, we have determined to release additional credits
associated with the 0.51 acre wetland area.
Pursuant to the Mitigation Banking Instrument (MBI) entitled, Cripple Creek Stream and
Wetland Mitigation Bank, dated December 1, 2009, eighty percent (80%) of the wetland
restoration credits associated with the additional wetland area shall be available for sale
immediately. To date, 80% of the total wetland credits have been released. As such, the release
of 80% of the additional wetland credits, at this time, will k to the existing release schedule.
By copy of this correspondence, we confirm that you have satisfied the agreed upon
requirements and 0.408 additional riparian wetland mitigation credits (rWMCs) are now
available for sale. To date, 85 percent of the total stream credits (3813.95 SMCs) have been
released and 80% of the total wetland credits (5.528 rWMCs and 1.16 nrWMCs) have been
released. Our records indicate that 3140.5 SMCs, 4.52 rWMCs and 0.67 nrWMCs have been

debited from the Bank. Therefore, the current total amount of credits available is 673.45 SMCs,
1.008 rWMCs and 0.49 nrWMCs. Please confirm all of these totals on your mitigation bank
ledger.
Thank you for your time and cooperation. If you have any questions, please contact either me
at [phone], Extension 24 or Mr. Andrew Williams, telephone [phone], Ext. 26.
Sincerely,
Jean B. Gibby
Chief, Raleigh Regulatory Field Office
Copies Furnished:
Mr. Todd Allen Bowers
NC Regulatory & Surface Coal Mining
USEPA — Region 4
Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center
61 Forsyth Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30303-8960
Mr. Tony Able
Wetlands and Streams Regulatory Section
USEPA — Region 4
Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center
61 Forsyth Street, SW
Atlanta Georgia 30303-8960
Mr. Pete Benjamin
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Raleigh Ecological Services Field Office
Post Office Box 33726
Raleigh North Carolina 2763 6-3 726

Mr. Fritz Rhode
Habitat Conservation Division — Atlantic Branch
National Marine Fisheries Service
101 Pivers Island Road
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516-9722
Ms. Sue Homewood
NC DENR Winston-Salem Regional Office
Division of Water Resources - Water Quality Programs
450 W. Hanes Mill Rd, Suite 300
Winston Salem NC 27105
Ms. Shari Bryant
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
P.O. Box 129
Sedalia, North Carolina 27342-0129
Mr. Todd Tugwell
Regulatory Project Manager
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
11405 Falls of Neuse Road
Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587