[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 202 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54067-54068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25883]



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DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION


Notice of Commission Meeting and Public Hearing

    Notice is hereby given that the Delaware River Basin Commission 
will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, October 25, 1995. The hearing 
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open 
to the public and scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. in the University of 
Delaware's Wilcastle Center Ballroom, 2600-2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, 
Wilmington, Delaware.
    An informal conference among the Commissioners and staff will be 
held at 10 a.m. at the same location and will include discussion of the 
Delaware Estuary Program implementation phase organizational structure; 
Delaware Riverkeeper request for Commission consideration of cumulative 
impacts of proposed Pennsylvania wetland fill 

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regulation and water quality considerations of Blue Marsh Reservoir.
    The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:
    Current Expense and Capital Budgets. A proposed current expense 
budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, in the aggregate 
amount of $3,294,500 and a capital budget for the same period in the 
amount of $2,147,500 in revenue and $1,500,500 in expenditures. Copies 
of the current expense and capital budget are available from the 
Commission on request by contacting Richard C. Gore.
    A Proposal to Adopt the 1995-1996 Water Resources Program. A 
proposal that the 1995-1996 Water Resources Program and the activities, 
programs, initiatives, concerns, projections and proposals identified 
and set forth therein be accepted and adopted, in accordance with the 
requirements of Section 13.2 of the Delaware River Basin Compact.

Applications for Approval of the Following Projects Pursuant to Article 
10.3, Article 11 and/or Section 3.8 of the Compact:

    1. Holdover Project: C S Water & Sewer Associates D-76-21 
(Revised). An application to revise DRBC Docket No. D-76-21 to approve 
an existing discharge from a 0.1 million gallons per day (mgd) sewage 
treatment plant (STP) to an unnamed tributary of the Delaware River; 
the applicant also proposes to modify the plant by adding an 
equalization tank. The STP was originally approved predicated upon a 
discharge directly to the Delaware River. The project STP is located in 
Lackawaxen Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania. The STP will continue 
to serve the Masthope Mountain Community residential/resort 
development. This hearing continues that of September 27, 1995.
    2. Holdover Project: Borough of Dublin D-95-25 CP. An application 
for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply water to 
the applicant's distribution system from existing Well Nos. 1, 2 and 3 
and new Well No. 5, and to retain the existing withdrawal limit from 
all wells to 4.36 million gallons (mg)/30 days. Well No. 5 is being 
developed as an alternate public water supply in accordance with the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency record of decision for the Dublin 
TCE Superfund site. The project is located in the Borough of Dublin, 
Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground 
Water Protected Area. This hearing continues that of September 27, 
1995.
    3. U.S. Department of Justice D-94-11 CP. An application to expand 
the applicant's Otisville Federal Correctional Institute STP from 0.2 
mgd to 0.5 mgd. The expanded STP will provide a new advanced secondary 
biological treatment system and continue to provide tertiary filtration 
and ultraviolet disinfection prior to discharge to an unnamed 
intermittent stream of Basher Kill, a Neversink River tributary. The 
project is located approximately 1.5 miles north of Otisville in the 
Town of Mount Hope, Orange County, New York.
    4. Beacon Hill at Upper Freehold D-94-64 CP. An application for 
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 5.2 mg/30 
days of water to the applicant's proposed residential development from 
new Wells Nos. 1 and 2B, and to limit the withdrawal from all wells to 
5.2 mg/30 days. The project is located in Upper Freehold Township, 
Monmouth County, New Jersey.
    5. Buckingham Township D-95-43 CP. A project to expand the 
applicant's Fieldstone STP from 0.022 mgd to 0.061 mgd. The expanded 
STP will serve growth in the existing residential development of 
Fieldstone and the proposed residential development of Sylvan Glen, 
both located in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The 
STP will continue to provide secondary biological treatment utilizing 
extended aeration lagoons and, after disinfection, will discharge the 
increased flow to new spray irrigation fields located at the 
intersection of Cold Spring Creamery Road and Church School Lane in 
Buckingham Township. The Fieldstone spray fields, located near the 
existing STP on the east side of Church School Lane, will be expanded 
and redesigned to include a new treatment lagoon. The proposed Sylvan 
Glen spray fields will be in the Pine Run watershed.
    Documents relating to these items may be examined at the 
Commission's offices. Preliminary dockets are available in single 
copies upon request. Please contact George C. Elias concerning docket-
related questions. Persons wishing to testify at this hearing are 
requested to register with the Secretary prior to the hearing.

    Dated: October 10, 1995.
Susan M. Weisman,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-25883 Filed 10-18-95; 8:45 am]
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