NCG020930_COC with Cover Letter_20181026

ROY COOPER NORTH CAROLINA
Governor Environmental Quality
MICHAEL S. REGAN
Secretary
WILLIAM E. (TOBY) VINSON, JR.
interim Director
October 26, 2018
Ernie L. Everett
Ernie Everett Site Prep, Inc.
1517 Highway 258 South
Kinston, NC 28504
Subject: General Permit No. NCG020000
Ernie Everett Site Prep, Inc. — Sheppard Pit
COC NCG020930
Lenoir County
Dear Mr. Everett:
In accordance with your application for a discharge permit received on May 21, 2018, and
subsequent additional information received on September 23, 2018, we are forwarding herewith the
subject certificate of coverage to discharge under the subject state — NPDES general permit. This permit
is issued pursuant to the requirements of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1 and the Memorandum
of Agreement between North Carolina and the US Environmental Protection Agency dated October 15,
2007 (or as subsequently amended).
Please take notice that this certificate of coverage is not transferable except after notice to the
Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources. The Division may require modification or revocation
and reissuance of the certificate of coverage.
Please note that mine dewatering wastewater includes wet pit overflows caused solely by direct
rainfall and groundwater seepage for this type of mining operation. Any discharge of this water (and any
stormwater commingled with it) is subject to the effluent limitations in this permit. Based the application,
all four outfalls at this site will discharge wastewater.
Your application indicated that there would be no pumping of mine pit water. Please be aware
that any pumping would have the potential to impact adjacent wetlands. The specific requirements for
mine dewatering at facilities near wetlands can be found in Part III, Section E of your permit. If this
mine pit requires pumping in the future, you must first have an approved Pumping Operation
Monitoring (POM) Plan before those discharges could occur at your facility. Discharging mine
dewatering wastewater without Plan approval will be subject to enforcement action. An Operation and
Monitoring Plan for your facility would have to be submitted to the Washington Regional Office for
approval. If this need arises, please contact Samir Dumpor at the Washington Regional Office at (252)
948-3859 for more information.
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North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 North Salisbury Street 1 1612 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
919.707.9200

Per the requirements of the Neuse Riparian Buffer Rule, all stormwater drainage to stream
buffers, from portions of this site that have been constructed after July 22, 1997, must be discharged
through a correctly designed level spreader or another device that meets diffuse flow requirements per
15A NCAC 2B .0233. Diffuse flow requirements are described in Chapter 9 of the North Carolina
Stormwater Design Manual, available at: htlps:Hdeq.nc.gov/about/divisions/ener2y-mineral-land-
resources/energy-mineral-land-permit-guidance/stormwater-bmp-manual.
This permit does not affect the legal requirements to obtain other permits which may be required
by the Division of Energy, Mining, and Land Resources, or permits required by the Division of Water
Resources, Coastal Area Management Act, or any other federal or local governmental permit that may be
required.
If you have any questions concerning this permit, please contact Bethany Georgoulias at
telephone number [phone].
Si*William
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Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources
cc: DWR Central Files
Washington Regional Office
Stormwater Permitting Program Files
Marc Edwards / MKE Environmental (via e-mail)
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North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
512 North Salisbury Street 11612 Mail Service Center I Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1612
919.707.9200

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
DIVISION OF ENERGY, MINERAL, AND LAND RESOURCES
GENERAL PERMIT NO. NCG020000
CERTIFICATE OF COVERAGE No. NCG020930
STORMWATER AND WASTEWATER DISCHARGES
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
In compliance with the provision of North Carolina General Statute 143-215.1, other lawful
standards and regulations promulgated and adopted by the North Carolina Environmental
Management Commission, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended,
Ernie Everett Site Prep, Inc.
is hereby authorized to operate approved wastewater treatment system(s) and discharge
stormwater and/or wastewater, as approved in the original permit application (or
subsequent permit modification) from a facility located at:
Sheppard Pit
W. New Bern Road
Kinston
Lenoir County
to receiving waters designated as Neuse River, class QNSW waters, in the Neuse River
Basin, in accordance with the effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other
conditions set forth in Parts I, II, III, IV, V, and VI of General Permit No. NCG02000O.as
attached.
This certificate of coverage shall become effective October 26, 2018.
This Certificate of Coverage shall remain in effect for the duration of the General Permit.
Signed this 261h day of October 2018.
for William E. (Toby) Vinson, Jr., P.E., CPM
Interim Director, Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources
By the Authority of the Environmental Management Commission