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DWR # 20181393
Stokes, Guilford, Rockingham Counties
Piedmont Natural Gas
Attn: Ned Dietrich
4720 Piedmont Row Dr
Charlotte NC 28210
Subject: REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Line 446 Belews Creek Gas Line Project
Dear Mr. Dietrich:
On October 10,2 018, the Division of Water Resources — Water Quality Programs (Division) received your
application dated September 28, 2018, requesting a 401 Water Quality Certification and Buffer
Authorization from the Division for your project. The Division has determined that your application is
incomplete and cannot be processed. The application is on -hold until all of the following information is
received:
1. The application indicates that by citing the new Right of Way (ROW) adjacent to an existing Duke
overhead line ROW the applicant has provided for Avoidance and Minimization. Please explain
why the existing overhead line ROW cannot be utilized as a temporary construction corridor to
further avoid and minimize impacts to streams, wetlands and buffers.
For all streams that drain to the Jordan Lake Watershed please provide a detailed buffer impact
table which includes impact site identifiers, impact amounts for Zone 1 and Zone 2, whether the
impact is a perpendicular crossing (between 75 and 105 degrees angle) or non -perpendicular
impact, the area of the buffer impact, the proposed permanent maintenance corridor width,
whether mitigation is required and required mitigation amounts (after applying the appropriate
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North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Water Resources
450 W. Hanes Mill Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27107
336.776-9800

Piedmont Natural Gas
DWR# 20181393
Request for Additional Information
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Zone multiplier and subtracting any wetlands within the buffer). Please ensure that buffer
impacts are accounted for in "line of site" clearings are included in the Buffer Impact table.
3. The plans provided include call outs stating: "Stream buffers to be provided per Jordan Lake
Buffer Rules". Providing a call out is insufficient for review and approval of buffer impacts.
Please add Zone 1 and Zone 2 buffers to the plan sheets where appropriate and identify buffer
impact areas with shading/hatching similar to that shown for wetland locations and wetland
impact areas. Please ensure that buffer impacts are shown in all "line of site" clearing areas as
well as open cut areas. If preferred for clarify, you may submit buffer impact sheets separate
from the stream/wetland plan sheets. It will be helpful to show the buffer impact areas using
different colors or hatching for areas which will be permanently maintained versus areas
proposed for buffer re-establishment upon construction completion. Please note that there
may be some streams which are located adjacent to the proposed ROW but which may have
buffers which are within the ROW and these streams should be included within the buffer
impact table and shown on the plan sheets.
4. In an effort to avoid and minimize impacts to streams and wetlands you have avoided impacts
within the temporary construction corridor in most locations of streams and wetlands.
However, it appears that you have not provided the same avoidance and minimization measures
to buffers. Please provide for avoidance and minimization of buffer impacts along streams that
are subject to the Jordan Lake Buffer Rules or provide justification for why these areas cannot
be avoided. Please show all buffers and temporary limits of disturbance on plan sheets.
Pursuant to Title 15A NCAC 02H .0502(e) and 15A NCAC 02B .0267, the applicant shall furnish all of the
above requested information for the proper consideration of the application. Please respond in writing
within 30 calendar days of receipt of this letter by sending one (1) copy of all of the above requested
information to the 401 & Buffer Permitting Branch, 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1617
OR by submitting all of the above requested information through this
link: https://edocs.deg.nc.gov/Forms/Supplemental-Information-Form (note the DWR# requested on
the link is referenced above).
If all of the requested information is not received within 30 calendar days of receipt of this letter, the
Division will be unable to approve the application and it will be returned. The return of this project will
necessitate reapplication to the Division for approval, including a complete application package and the
appropriate fee.
Please be aware that you have no authorization under the Water Quality Certification Rules for this
activity and any work done within waters of the state may be a violation of North Carolina General
Statutes and Administrative Code.

Piedmont Natural Gas
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Request for Additional Information
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Please contact me at 336-776-9693 or Sue. [e-mail] if you have any questions or
concerns.
Sincerely,
Sue Homewood
Winston-Salem Regional Office
cc: Suzanne Herron, Energy Land & Infrastructure PLLC (via email)
David Bailey, USACE Raleigh Regulatory Field Office (via email)
DWR WSRO 401 files
DWR 401 & Buffer Permitting Unit