20070812 Ver 2_More Info Letter_20080523

?0 WATF9 p Michael F. Easley, Governor
`0 ?i William G. Ross Jr., Secretary
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Coleen H. Sullins, Director
Division of Water Quality
May 23, 2008
DWQ Project # 2007-0812 Version 2
Stanly County
CERTIFIED MAIL: RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Mark Gross, VP of APGI
Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.
P.O. Box 576
Highway 740
Badin, NC 28009
Subject Project: Yadkin Hydroelectric Project
FERC # P-2197
REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION
Dear Mr. Gross:
On May 8, 2008, the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) received your application dated May 9, 2008 to to
obtain a 401 Water Quality Certification for the FERC license of the abovementioned project. The DWQ
has determined that your application was incomplete and/or provided inaccurate information as discussed
below. The DWQ will require additional information in order to process your application to impact
protected wetlands and/or streams on the subject property. Therefore, unless we receive five copies of the
additional information requested below, we will place this project on hold as incomplete until we receive
this additional information. If we do not receive the requested information, your project will be formally
returned as incomplete. Please provide the following information so that we may continue to review your
project.
Additional Information Requested:
1. APGI must provide a written plan for sampling the discharge from the Narrows (Badin Lake) dam for
pollutants to include heavy metals and organic pollutants including volatile organic compounds, acid-
extractable compounds, base-neutral compounds, and PCBs using a priority pollutant scan analyzed
in accordance with 40 CFR Part 136. This analysis must be conducted by a DWQ-certified
laboratory.
2. APGI shall provide a written plan for sampling lake sediment in a transect from the Alcoa Plant site
to the discharge from the dam forthose heavy metals and compounds including PCBs that are present
in the sediment in the swimming area as reported in the Badin Lake Swim/Picnic Area and Badin
Boat Assess Sediment Assessment, Stanly County, North Carolina dated January 2008 as prepared by
Environmental Services, Inc. This analysis must be conducted by a DWQ-certified laboratory.
Please respond in writing within 30 calendar days of the date of this letter by sending a copy of this .
information to me and to Alan Johnson of the DWQ Mooresville Regional Office. If you will not be able
to provide the requested information within that timeframe, please provide written confirmation that you
intend to provide the requested information, and include a specific timetable delineating when the
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May 23, 2008
requested materials will be provided. If we do not hear from you in 30 calendar days, we will assume that
you no longer want to pursue this project and we will consider the project as returned.
This letter only addresses the application review and does not authorize any impacts to wetlands, waters
or protected buffers. Please be aware that any impacts requested within your application are not
authorized (at this time) by the DWQ. Please call Mr. John Dorney at 919-733-9646 if you have any
questions regarding or would like to set up a meeting to discuss this matter.
Permitting Unit
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cc: Alan Johnson, DWQ Mooresville Regional Office
Kimberly Bose, Secretary, FERC, 888 First Street, NW, Washington, DC 20426
File Copy
Central Files
David Poe, Dewey and LeBoeuf, 1101 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC
20005-4213
Gene Ellis, APGI, Yadkin Division, P.O. Box 576, Badin, NC 28009-0576
Robin Smith, DENR
Coleen Sullins, DENR
Don Laton, NC Attorney General's Office
Jim Mead, Division of Water Resources
Jerry Myers, County Manager, Stanly County, 100 N. First Street, Suite 10, Albemarle, NC
28001
Thomas Griffin, III, Three Wachovia Center, Suite 3000, 401 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
28202-1935
W. Max, Walser, Commissioner Davidson County, 913 Greensboro Street, Lexington, NC 27292
Filename: 2007-0812ver2APGI(Stanly)nholdMay 2008
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Alcoa Power Generating, Inc.
Attn: Mark Gross, VP of APGI
P.O. Box 576 Highway 740
Badin,NC 28009
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