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Regulatory Division
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Action ID No. 2003-00682
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WILMINGTON DISTRICT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS
PO BOX 1890
WILMINGTON NC 28402-1890
Ms. Jennifer Derby, Chief
Wetlands Section - Region IV
Water Management Division
Environmental Protection Agency
61 Forsyth Street, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
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This correspondence is in reference to the Stone Farm Regional Mitigation Bank that is
owned by Ocean Isle Investment Co. c/o: Mr. DeCarol Williamson located north of Georgetown
Road (SR 1163) and east of Seaside Road (SR 1165), adjacent to the Little Caw Caw
Canal/Creek and Drowned Bay, just east of Calabash, Brunswick County, North Carolina. The
purpose of this letter is to provide you with a final draft of the mitigation banking instrument and
to request your agency's signature on this document.
Pursuant to 60 FR 228, p.58610, 3, Agency Roles and Coordination, "No agency is required
to sign a banking instrument; however, in signing a banking instrument, an agency agrees to the
terms of that instrument." Please review the attached final version carefully; and if you are in
agreement with the terms of the MBI, please sign your appropriate signature block and return it
to our office within 30 days of your receipt of this letter. Please note that the mitigation
restoration plan, along with an e-mail copy of this MBI, has been provided to the team member
of your agency; and that the Office of Counsel, Wilmington District, has reviewed the property
disposition and disposal provisions in the MBI and agrees that these provisions provide adequate
preservation assurances for the Bank property.
For your information, our review of the instrument has been completed and the Wilmington
District Engineer is anticipating signing the mitigation banking instrument upon the 30-day time
period.
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Thank you again for your time and for your agencies participation in the review of this bank.
If you have any questions, please contact me, at the Wilmington Regulatory Field Office,
telephone [phone].
Sincerely,
Mickey Sugg
Regulatory Project Manager
Enclosure
Copy Furnished (without enclosure):
Ms. Molly Ellwood
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
127 Cardinal Drive Extension
Wilmington, North Carolina 28405
S. Tammy Hill
ivision of Water Quality
N.C. Department of Environment
and Natural Resources
2321 Crabtree Boulevard
Raleigh, North Carolina 27604-2260
Mr. Howard Hall
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Fish and Wildlife Enhancement
Post Office Box 33726
Raleigh North Carolina 27636-3726
Ms. Kathy Matthews
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Wetlands Regulatory Section- Region IV
109 T.W. Alexander Drive
Durham, North Carolina 27711
Mr. Pace Wilber
National Marine Fisheries Service
Habitat Conservation Division
Post Office Box 12559
Charleston, North Carolina 29422-2559
Mr. Steve Everhart
Division of Coastal Management
N.C. Department of Environment
and Natural Resources
127 Cardinal Drive Extension
Wilmington, North Carolina 28405