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Permit No. NCG020000 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT GENERAL PERMIT TO DISCHARGE STORMWATER UNDER THE 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, All owners or operators of stormwater point source discharges associated with activities classified as Standard Industrial Classification Code 14 (mineral mining industry) , except as specified below, including active or inactive mining operations (including borrow pits) that discharge stormwater contaminated with or that has come in contact with, any overburden, raw material, intermediate products, finished products, byproducts or waste products located on the site of such operations; stormwater from vehicle maintenance activities at mining operations; overflow from facilities that recycle process wastewater; and/or mine dewatering are hereby authorized to discharge to the surface waters of North Carolina or to a separate storm sewer system conveying discharges to surface waters. The following activities and their associated stormwater discharges shall not have coverage under this General Permit: peat mining, coal mining, metal mining, stormwater discharges from mining operations which are intermixed on site with stormwater from asphalt operations, and oil and gas extraction operations. The General Permit shall become effective on September 1, 1992. The General Permit shall expire at midnight on August 31, 1997. Signed this day July 31, 1992. 4 �. A. Preston Howard, ., P.E., Acting Director Division of Environmental Management By the Authority of the Environmental Management Commission