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Home My WebLink About20180765 Ver 1_USACE Correspondence_20180816'j DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WILMINGTON DISTRICT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS 151 PATTON AVENUE ROOM 208 ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 28801-5006 August 16, 2018 Action ID: SAW -2017-02281 High Hampton Resort, LLC / High Hampton Land, LLC Attn.: Scott Wearren 3104 Blue Lake Drive, Suite 200 Vestavia Hills, AL 35243 Dear Mr. Wearren: Reference is made to your May 31, 2018, Department of the Army (DA) permit application for the High Hampton Redevelopment Project in Cashiers, Jackson County, North Carolina. The Corps has been informed land clearing, grading, and construction activities associated with the redevelopment project are being conducted south of N.C. Highway 107. The Corps has confirmed these activities are within the proposed project area for the redevelopment project. It is noted the application for the redevelopment project and the proposed associated impacts to waters of the U.S. (WoUS) is currently under review and evaluation by the Corps. The DA has not issued a decision for the proposed impacts to WoUS at this time. With this letter the Corps is informing you the conductance of activities in areas outside of the Corps jurisdiction associated with the proposed redevelopment project does not imply that this office will necessarily approve the proposed impacts to WoUS currently under review or any future proposal to impact WoUS on this property. The conductance of clearing, grading, and construction activities will not affect the Corps current review or any future proposed impacts to WoUS. The occurrence of these activities within the redevelopment project area will not be an adequate justification for authorization of the proposed impacts currently under review or authorization of future impacts. The Corps will examine the proposed impacts to WoUS for the proposed redevelopment project and any future proposal to impact WoUS to ensure you have avoided, minimized, and/or mitigated for unavoidable impacts. At this time, the proposed impacts to WoUS outlined in your application is being evaluated by the Corps to determine if measures you have proposed to avoid, minimize, and mitigate for unavoidable impacts to WoUS are applicable and appropriate. No authorization has been issued by the DA to impact WoUS for the redevelopment project or for any other activities at this property. Any impacts to WoUS within the Corps jurisdiction will be a violation of federal law under the Clean Water Act, Section 301 (33 USC 1311), and may be consider a knowing violation of federal law. This can result in issuance of a notification of unauthorized activity and cause the current application requesting DA authorization to be administratively withdrawn. Also, it has been reported that a historic schoolhouse within the redevelopment project area has been removed and transported off the property. The removal of the building is associated with the golf course redesign, which is apart of the redevelopment project. The schoolhouse was built around 1891 by General Wade Hampton, a person of historic significant. The building could be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The Corps strongly advises you to contact Renee Gledhill -Early (919-807-6579, renee.gledhill-early@ncdcr.gov) of the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in order to determine requirements this agency has for the removal the schoolhouse. You are to copy the Corps in your responses/submittals to SHPO on this matter. If you have any questions please contact me, 828-271-7980, ext. 4232, or david.w.brown@uasee.anny/mil. incerely, 1 _ David Brown, PG Regulatory Specialist/Geologist Asheville Regulatory Field Office Copy: USFWS Attn.: Byron Hamstead 160 Zillicoa Street Asheville, NC 28801 NCDEQ-DWR Attn.: Kevin Mitchell 2090 U.S. Highway 70 Swannanoa, NC 28778 NCDEQ-DWR Attn.: Sue Homewood 450 W. Hanes Mill Road, Suite 300 Winston Salem, NC 27105 NC WRC Attn.: Andrea Leslie 645 Fish Hatchery Road Marion, NC 28752 NCDNCR-SHPO Attn.: Renee Gledhill -Earley 4617 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-4617 NCDNCR-Western Office Attn.: Linda Hall 176 Riceville Road Asheville, NC 28805 Jackson County Attn.: Tony Elders 401 Grindstaff Cove Road, Siute 145 Sylva, NC 28779 Clearwater Environmental Consultants, Inc. Attn.: Clement Riddle 32 Clayton Street Asheville, NC 28801