NCG180086_COC_20200413

ROY COOPER
Governor
MICHAEL S. REGAN
secwtory
BRIAN WRENN
Acting Director
HWS Co. Inc.
William E. Smith
PO Box 189
Hickory NC 28603
NORTH CAROLINA
Environmental Quality
April 13, 2020
Subject: Certificate of Coverage (COC)
NCG180086
HWS Co. Inc. — DBA Hickory White
Catawba County
Please see the attached new Certificate of Coverage No. NCG180086 for coverage
under Stormwater General Permit NCG180000 for this facility. This permit is
reissued pursuant to the requirements of North Carolina General Statute 143 -21 SA
and the Memorandum of Agreement between the state of North Carolina and the
11 S, Environmental Protection Agency, dated October 15, 2007 (or as Subsequently
amended.)
You must print a copy of the new NCG1.80000 General Permit from our Stormwater
General Permits web page:
In addition to the full permit, the print
package on the website includes revised Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) forms
and Qualitative Monitoring Report Forms.
The General Permit authorizes discharges of storniwater, and it specifies your obligations
with respect to discharge controls, management, monitoring, and record keeping. Please
review the new permit to familiarize yourself with all changes in the reissued permit.
Your facility has six (6) months from receipt of the permit to update your Stormiwater
Pollution Prevention Plan (SPPP) to reflect any new permit requirements.
If activities at this facility ever require analytical monitoring, eDMR will affect you.
We are setting up our database with the outfalls that permittees submitted on-line
and permit parameters. Permittees will receive notification when our eDMR
system is ready for permit -holders to register and begin reporting monitoring data
electronically. If you have any questions about the status, please contact Bethany
Georgoulias at [phone]..
Sincerely,
for Brian Wrenn
Acting Director
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality I Division ofEnerqy, Mineral and Land Resources
-D-- E- Q- 512 North Salisbury Street 1 1612 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. NCG180000
CERTIFICATE OF COVERAGE No. NCG1800086
STORMWATER 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,
HWS Co. Inc.
is hereby authorized to discharge stormwater from a facility located at
HWS Co. Inc. - DBA Hickory White
856 7th Avenue SE
Hickory
Catawba County
to receiving waters designated as Clark Creek, class WS-IV waters in the Catawba River
Basin, in accordance with the effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and other
conditions set forth in Parts I, II, and III of General Permit No. NCG180000.
This certificate of coverage shall become effective April 13, 2020.
This Certificate of Coverage shall remain in effect for the duration of the General Permit.
Signed this 13th day of April 2020.
for Brian Wrenn
Acting Director, Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources
By the Authority of the Environmental Management Commission