Public Notice

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Resources

NPDES Unit - 1617 Mail Service Center - Raleigh, NC 27699-1617

Notice of intent to revoke NPDES Permit NC0086053 Pilot Travel Center #393, deny permittee’s renewal application, and/or deny a permit transfer request.

Pilot Travel Centers, LLC [5508 Lonas Drive, Knoxville, TN 37909] applied for renewal of NPDES permit NC0086053 (Permit) for its wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), located at 3712 Crabtree Road in Waynesville, N.C (Haywood County). This WWTP discharged treated wastewater to Stingy Branch, a tributary to the Pigeon River in the French Broad River Basin. After submitting its permit renewal application, the permittee terminated the discharge by connecting wastewater flows to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) and razing its WWTP. After the wastewater was routed to a POTW and closure of the WWTP was nearly complete, the permittee and Junaluska Sanitary District submitted a request to have the Permit transferred to Junaluska Sanitary District via a minor modification/ownership name change.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Resources (DWR) proposes to revoke NPDES permit NC0086053 or, in the alternative, deny the permittee’s renewal application. DWR is also proposing to deny the request for an ownership name change via minor modification. Written comments regarding the proposed actions will be accepted until 30 days after the publication of this notice. The Director of DWR may hold a public hearing should there be a significant degree of public interest. Please mail comments and/or information requests to DWR at the above address. Interested persons may visit DWR at 512 N. Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC 27604 to review information on file. Additional information on NPDES permits and this notice may be found on our website: http://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-resources-permi… by calling (919) 707-3601. (A Public Notice ad will run in The Mountaineer on 6/2/21).

Send Comments To:
NCDEQ/DWR/NPDES
Water Quality Permitting Section
1617 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1617

Or Email Comments to:bradley.bennett@ncdenr.gov

Comment Period Ends: 7/2/21