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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNCC190971_ESC Approval Submitted_20190716 ROY COOPER Governor MICHAEL S.REGAN Secretary S.DANIEL SMITH NORTH CAROLINA Interim Director Environmental Quality June 5, 2019 LETTER OF APPROVAL Shugart Enterprises, LLC ATTN: Brian D. Shugart 221 Jonestown Rd. Winston-Salem,NC 27104 RE: Project Name: The Preserve at Stone Ridge Acres Approved: 13.7 Project ID: ALAMA-2019-038 County:Alamance City: Gibbsonville Address: Gibbs onville-Ossipee Rd. River Basin: Cape Fear Stream Classification: Other Submitted By: Green Mountain Engineering, PLLC;Joseph V. O'Buch, PE Date Received by LQS: May 8, 2019 Plan Type: New-Residential Dear Mr. Shugart: This office has reviewed the subject erosion and sedimentation control plan. We find the plan to be acceptable and hereby issue this Letter of Approval. The enclosed Certificate of Approval must be posted at the job site. This plan shall expire three (3) years following the date of approval, if no land-disturbing activity has been undertaken, as is required by Title 1SA NCAC 4B .0129. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division of Energy,Mineral and Land Resources Q�$ +�D E Winston-Salem Regional Office 1 450 Hanes Mill Road,Suite 3001 Winston-Salem.North Carolina 27103 tbnrtt cnrmi Nn 336.776.9800 Letter of Approval Alamance County June 5, 2019 Page 3 of 3 Please note that this approval is based in part on the accuracy of the information provided in the Financial Responsibility Form, which you provided. You are requested to file an amended form if there is any change in the information included on the form. In addition, it would be helpful if you notify this office of the proposed starting date for this project. Please notify us if you plan to have a preconstruction conference.Your cooperation is appreciated. Sincerely, Dylan Reinhardt, EI Assistant Regional Engineer Land Quality Section Enclosures: Certificate of Approval NCG01 Fact Sheet cc: Green Mountain Engineering, PLLC ATTN: Jordan Young 7A Wendy Court Greensboro, NC 27409 WSRO File 4-4 O40. C� v � Cam., QJ0•, � O 40 U A U Fact Sheet on the New NCGO1 Permit E April 2019 � The NC Construction General Permit(also known as"NCG01") was renewed on April 1,2019.The updated permit does not significantly change the measures that are required to be implemented on construction sites. However, there are some organizational and technical updates to the permit as described below. Most notably,there is a new process in which construction sites will obtain official coverage under an NCGO1 permit through an electronic process. DEMLR worked with a broad team of stakeholders to make all of these updates. If you have questions, contact Annette Lucas at Annette.lucas@ncdenr.gov or(919) 707-3639. Organizational Updates Acronyms to Know The new permit: COC: Certificate of Coverage, proof of coverage under an NCGO1 permit • Repeats state requirements for E&SC DEMLR: NC Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources Plans and organizes them with federal E&SC: Erosion &Sedimentation Control construction activity requirements; a-NOI: Notice of Intent, application form for the NCGO1 permit • Is clearly organized by topic; and a-NOT: Notice of Termination, form for closing out the NCGO1 permit • Has less text and more tables. SWPPP: Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, required by the NCGO1 Technical Updates The new permit: • Requires that the E&SC Plan meet SWPPP requirements (p. 2); • Provides a list of items that must be included in the SWPPP, such as the construction sequence, plans, calculations, etc. (p. 2-4);' • Has updated language on bypasses and upsets that is tailored to construction activities (p. 10); • Puts all timeframes for inspections, record-keeping and reporting in The NCGO1 Process "calendar days" for clarity and The new NCGO1 applies to permits approved on or after April 1,2019. consistency (p. 11-14);' Permittees will no longer receive a copy of the NCGO1 permit in the mail • Changes the inspection frequency with their E&SC Plan approvals and be considered as covered under the (during business hours)to at least permit. Federal rules require that DEMLR receive an NOI on each once per 7 calendar days and after construction project and issue each construction project its own COC. every storm > 1.0 inch (previously 0.5 inch);' and Under the new NCGO1 process, construction sites will continue to • Excludes weekends, state and federal receive approval for E&SC Plans from either DEMLR or the delegated holidays from normal business hours local E&SC program just like before. After receiving E&SC Plan approval, unless construction activities take permittees will officially obtain coverage under the NCGO1 by place (p. 23). completing an e-NOI (available at deq.nc.gov/NCG01). The e-NOI will only take about 20 minutes to fill out and submit on-line. 1 This list is based on website guidance by the DEMLR Sediment Program. Initially,there will be no charge associated with applying for an NCGO1 Z The number of calendar days was permit but on or around June 1, 2019, DEMLR will begin charging a $100 annual general permit fee as required per§143-215.3D. selected to be as equivalent as possible with the previous permit. DEMLR is working on creating a single application form that will allow an ' The intent is to provide predictability applicant to simultaneously apply for an E&SC permit and an NCGO1 to the inspection schedule. COC. That effort is part of a larger Permit Transformation project at DEMLR.