20020408 Ver 1_Approval Letter_20020318

QF W ATF9 Michael F. Easley
\Q? QG Governor
pj 7 William G. Ross, Jr., Secretary
s ®? Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Gregory J. Thorpe, Ph.D., Acting Director
Division of Water Quality
April 17, 2002
DWQ Project No. 02-0408
Richmond County
Tim Knopf
Vulcan Materials Company
P.O. Box 4239
Winston-Salem, NC, 27115-4239
APPROVAL of 401 Water Quality Certification with Additional Conditions
Dear Mr. Knopf:
You have our approval, in accordance with the attached conditions, to place fill in 0.07 acre of riparian wetlands in
order to construct the Vulcan Materials Company Entrance Road Expansion in Richmond County, as described in your
application received by the Division of Water Quality on March 18, 2002. After reviewing your application, we have
determined that this fill is covered by General Water Quality Certification Number 3362, which can be downloaded from
our web site at http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands . This Certification allows you to use Nationwide Permit Number 18
when issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In addition, you should get any other federal, state or local permits
before you go ahead with your project including (but not limited to) Sediment and Erosion Control, Non-Discharge and
Water Supply Watershed regulations. Also this approval will expire when the accompanying 404 permit expires unless
otherwise specified in the General Certification.
This approval is only valid for the purpose and design that you described in your application. If you change your
project, you must notify us in writing and you may be required to send us a new application for a new certification. If the
property is sold, the new owner must be given a copy of the Certification and approval letter and is thereby responsible for
complying with all conditions. If total wetland fills for this project (now or in the future) exceed one acre, compensatory
mitigation may be required as described in 15A NCAC 2H .0506 (h). For this approval to be valid, you must follow the
conditions'listed in the attached certification as well as the additional conditions listed below:
1. We. understand that you have chosen to contribute to the Wetland Restoration Program in order to compensate for
cumulative impacts to wetlands. In accordance with 15A NCAC 2R .0402 and 15A NCAC 2B.0242(7), this contribution
will satisfy our compensatory mitigation requirements under 15A NCAC 2H .0506(h) and 15A NCAC 2B .0233(10). Until
the Wetland Restoration Program receives and clears your check (made payable to: DENR - Wetlands Restoration
Program), wetland impacts (including fill) shall not occur. Mr. Ron Ferrell should be contacted at [phone] if you
have any questions concerning the Wetland Restoration Program. You have one month from the date of this
Certification to make this payment. For accounting purposes, this Certification authorizes the fill of 0.07 acre of
wetlands, in addition to 1.03 acre of prior impacts, in the Yadkin River and sub-basin and 1.25 acres of wetland
mitigation is required. Please be aware that the Wetland Restoration Program (WRP) rules require rounding of acreage
impact amounts to the nearest quarter acre (15A NCAC 2R .0503(b))
If you do not accept any of the conditions of this certification, you may ask for an adjudicatory hearing. You must act
within 60 days of the date that you receive this letter. To ask for a hearing, send a. written petition which conforms to
Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes to the Office of Administrative Hearings, P.O. Box 27447, Raleigh,
N.C. 27611-7447. This certification and its conditions are final and binding unless you ask for a hearing.
This letter completes the review of the Division of Water Quality under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. If you have
any questions, please telephone Ken Averitte in our Fayetteville Regional Office at 910-486-1541 or Cyndi Karoly in the
Central Office at 919-733-9721.
Or ory J. Thorpe,
North Carolina Division of Water Quality, 401 Wetlands Certification Unit,
1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1650 (Mailing Address)
2321 Crabtree Blvd., Raleigh, NC 27604-2260 (Location)
919-733-1786 (phone), 919-733-6893 (fax), http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/ncwetlands/
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