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State environmental officials are requiring towns with pretreatment programs in the Cape Fear River Basin to monitor for a set of emerging compounds starting this summer.  

The N.C. Division of Water Resources will host a public hearing to gather comments on six draft wastewater discharge permit renewals for mines in Avery and Mitchell counties.

RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board will hold its fourth meeting in Charlotte on May 22.

The Department of Environmental Quality, in cooperation with the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission and Duke Energy, will be stocking 2,500 sterile grass carp at Harris Lake to control hydrilla, a particularly aggressive aquatic plant. 

Regarding Duke Energy’s appeal filed in the office of Administrative Hearings today, DEQ Secretary Michael Regan said...

The N.C. Environmental Management Commission will meet May 8-9 at the Archdale Building in downtown Raleigh. Commission committees will meet Wednesday, May 8, with the full commission meeting Thursday, May 9. Topics to be discussed include a proposed rule on methyl bromide use in log fumigation, a petition to repeal the swamp designation for a portion of the Cape Fear River and an update on North Carolina’s Coastal Habitat Protection Plan. To view the agendas, please visit: https://deq.nc.gov/EMCAgendas2019

FF-15-2019 PROCLAMATION RE: SCUP - COMMERCIAL FISHING OPERATIONS - ATLANTIC OCEAN- NORTH OF CAPE HATTERAS – OPENING OF SUMMER HARVEST PERIOD This proclamation sets the harvest period and limits for the commercial scup Summer harvest period, north of Cape Hatteras. This commercial harvest period will close at 6:00 P.M. September 30, 2019 or when the quota is reached, whichever occurs first. 

The N.C. Division of Water Resources will host a public hearing to gather comments on six draft wastewater discharge permit renewals for mines in Avery and Mitchell counties.

Local advisory committees for six coastal reserves will meet in April and May. The meetings are open to the public and scheduled as follows: Zeke’s Island Reserve Local Advisory Committee April 30 at 10 a.m. Fort Fisher Recreation Area Education Room 1000 Loggerhead Road, Kure Beach Bird Island Reserve Local Advisory Committee May 2 at 10 a.m. Sunset Beach Town Hall 700 Sunset Blvd. North, Sunset Beach

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is accepting public comment on an administrative amendment to the air permit for the Chemours Company Fayetteville Works facility.