20130918 Ver 9_Public Notice (agencies) U-2525BC Permit Mod Request # 8 SAW-2005-021386_20161202

Strickland, Bev
From:Bailey, David E CIV USARMY CESAW (US) <[e-mail]>
Sent:Friday, December 02, 2016 2:44 PM
To:Wanucha, Dave; [e-mail]; Wilson, Travis W.;
[e-mail]; Gledhill-earley, Renee
Cc:Cheely, Erin K; Dagnino, Carla S
Subject:Public Notice (agencies): U-2525BC Permit Modification Request # 8;
SAW-2005-021386
All,

Please reference the Department of the Army (DA) permit issued on April 15, 2014, to the North Carolina Department of
Transportation (NCDOT), for impacts associated with the project identified as U-2525BC. The project is a 9.7 mile, four-
lane/six-lane divided facility on new location extending from the US 70 relocation to SR 2303 (Lawndale Drive) in
Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. Section B of this project begins at the US 70 relocation and terminates at
US 29, and Section C begins at US 29 and ends at SR 2303 (Lawndale Drive). Coordinates (in decimal degrees) for the site
are: 36.089772° North, -79.697302° West for the eastern terminus and 36.141773° North, -79.825120° West for the
western terminus. The site contains portions of four (4) unnamed tributaries to South Buffalo Creek, twenty (20)
unnamed tributaries to North Buffalo Creek, five (5) unnamed tributaries to an unnamed tributary at Camp Herman,
fourteen (14) unnamed tributaries to Reedy Fork, a portion of Richland Creek, and ten (10) unnamed tributaries to
Richland Creek, as well as 50 (50) adjacent wetland areas and five (5) open water ponds in the Cape Fear River Basin (8-
Digit Cataloging Unit 03030002).

Impacts authorized by the permit as well as subsequent permit modifications dated June 18, 2014, October 31, 2014,
December 4, 2014, March 12, 2015, July 24, 2015, March, 18, 2016, and August 11, 2016 include: 1) The permanent
placement of fill material into 23,467 linear feet of jurisdictional stream channel, 9.95 acres of adjacent riparian
wetlands, and 2.32 acres of jurisdictional open waters and, 2) the temporary placement of fill material into 785 linear
feet of jurisdictional stream channel and 0.31 acre of adjacent riparian wetlands associated with construction access and
the relocation of utility lines. Compensatory mitigation was implemented for the unavoidable impacts by payment into
the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program, now known as the North Carolina Division of Mitigation Services
(NCDMS), as well as permittee responsible mitigation referenced in the permit special conditions.

Via letter dated November 28, 2016, the NCDOT requested an eighth modification to the above referenced permit
(please see attached). The proposed modification, as stated by the applicant, includes the following:

Permit Site 1: As a result of the new roadway slopes needed to incorporate the lengthened collector/distributor lane for
one of the new ramps, the existing 60" concrete pipe will need to be extended. This will result in 41 linear feet (lf) of
permanent impacts, <0.01 acre (5 lf) of temporary impacts, and 5 lf of bank stabilization to stream SBV. There will also
be 0.03 acre of permanent wetland fill, 0.02 acre of excavation, and 0.03 acre of mechanized clearing in wetland WBU2.
A portion (0.02 acre) of the 0.03 acre of permanent wetland impacts is a result of the potential drawdown on the east
side of the wetland from the new lateral base ditch. Note that Site 1 occurs outside of the original project area, and no
impacts to Stream SBV or Wetland WBU2, conceptual or otherwise, were authorized via the April 15, 2014 DA Permit or
seven subsequent modifications.

Permit Site 2: Ramp construction in the northwest quadrant will result in 362 lf of permanent impacts to stream SI. This
activity will also result in a total take of the remaining portion of wetland WE, which includes 0.43 acre of permanent
wetland fill and 0.03 acre of excavation. A portion (0.15 acre) of this permanent fill was previously permitted as
mechanized clearing as part of U-2525B, Site 21. These impacts were already conceptualized and authorized under the
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April 15, 2014 DA Permit for U-2525C; in this case, the applicant is requesting release of Permit Site 2 of U-2525C for
construction per Permit Special Condition 2.

Permit Site 3: In order to accommodate one of the new ramps, the existing 54" concrete pipe will be extended. This will
result in 61 lf of permanent impacts and <0.01 acre (10 lf) of temporary impacts to stream SG. These impacts were
already conceptualized and authorized under the April 15, 2014 DA Permit for U-2525C; in this case, the applicant is
requesting release of Permit Site 3 of U-2525C for construction per Permit Special Condition 2.

Note that the April 15, 2014 DA Permit required compensatory mitigation for all of U-2525BC, including the use of the
conceptual sum of permanent stream and wetland impacts. Through this modification request, concerning only Permit
Sites 1-3, proposes compensatory mitigation for permanent impacts of waters of the US, including 464 linear feet of
stream and 0.54 acre of wetlands, via purchase of appropriate stream and wetland credits from NCDMS at a 2:1
mitigation to impact ratio. Since the above compensatory mitigation requirement falls below the amount of
compensatory mitigation required in the April 15, 2014 DA Permit and subsequent modifications, any future change in
the compensatory mitigation requirement will be based on the wetland and stream impacts proposed in the future
modification request to release the remainder of U-2525C for construction.

For the proposed impact sites, findings related to Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act and Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act remain unchanged from those documented in the original DA Public Notice issued
December 5, 2013.

Given that all affected property owners at Permit Sites 2 and 3 were notified of the project during the original Public
Notice period, a lack of applicable comments received during the original Public Notice period, and the small magnitude
of the proposed additional impacts at Site 1 (occurring within existing NCDOT ROW), I will not place this project back on
Public Notice. However, I am requesting feedback from agencies in reference to the project modification.

Please send any comments or responses to this project modification within 1 week (by Monday, December 12, 2016). If
you have any specific questions regarding this request please feel free to contact me. Thank you in advance for your
assistance.

-Dave Bailey

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David E. Bailey, PWS
Regulatory Project Manager
US Army Corps of Engineers
CE-SAW-RG-R
3331 Heritage Trade Drive, Suite 105
Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587
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