20080868 Ver 2_BONNERTON PCS Notice to satisfy Cond 9 of 401_20160621

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('.1'eilified Mail
June 21, 2016
Ms. Karen Higgins
401 and Buff�.r Permitting Unit Supervisor
NCI DEQ - Division of Water Resources
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, Noi-th Carolina 27699-1617
Dear Ms. Hlggins:
PotashCorp - Aurora
The NC Division of Water Quality (now Division of Water Resources) issued to PCS Phospliate
401 Certification No. 3771, DWQ #2008-0868 version 2.0 on January 15, 2009, f(..)r our ]nine
expansion sion in Beaufort County. Language at the end cat the second Paragraph of Condition 9 (:)f
the Certification, talking about the 1,145 -foot wide mining corridor through the narrowest
portion of the Bonnerton Non-Riverinc Wet Hardwood Forest states:
"I'lie mining corrid(m- shall be restored and replanted within ten 0 0) years of the initiation
of mining preparation fear the area. DWCC shall be copied on a letter once that naming
preparation begins on the rnining corridor in order to establish this tell Year clock,-"
This letter sen,es, as notice that mining preparation activities were initiated within this con-idor in
Bonnerton on February 22, 2016. Therefore, the ten year clock runs to February 22, 2026. IfYOU
have any questions, please call me at [phone], or email at j fiumess( pesphosphate.corn.
S , incerely,
R f_ry Furness
Senior Scientist
PC: Anthony Scarbraugh --- DWR, Washington
TOIII Steffens --- Corps of Engineers, Wash.
23-01-004-29
J. Pierce
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R. Jenner
T. Cvetan
A. Donohue
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�530 NC Hwy 306 South, Aurora, NC USA 27806 T [phone]
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