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From: Cathy Scott <[e-mail]>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 12:40 PM
To: Burdette, Jennifer a
Subject: Use of New York State Statutes to Challenge 401 permits for ACP
Dear Ms. Burdette,
I wrote to Governor Cooper yesterday and quoted freely from the New York State's DEC (their version of our
DEQ) decision in April 2017 to deny a 401 Water Quality Certification (permit) to build a natural gas pipeline
up there.
I don't know how different the statutes are in New York State from those in North Carolina, but clearly the
NYSDEC officials made the decision to actually USE the language of their existing statutes to mount a very
comprehensive rebuttal of the company's claims that construction would pose no problem to New York streams,
rivers, waterways, and wetland.
New York State DEC's decision to challenge the pipeline construction using existing state statutes was upheld
by a U. S. Court of Appeals ruling in August 2017.
Anyway, I reminded Gov. Cooper that New York State DEC HAS HIS BACK!!! and that he can and should
take courage from the states that are using their own statutes to protect their own waterways, and that Federal
Courts are siding with the states who do just that.
I want to convey that to you as well; that you have the precedent offered by New York State's DEQ to move
boldly to protect our state's waterways, rivers, streams and wetlands.
And, thousands of North Carolinians have your back as well and will come out in force --I repeat IN FORCE --to
show their support for NCDEQ's taking a stand to protect the waters of our beautiful, fertile and abundant state.
Cathy Scott
53 Mount Olive Church Road
Asheville NC 28804
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