[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3313-3314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1416]


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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, January 28, 1998. The hearing 
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open 
to the public and scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Goddard 
Conference Room of the Commission's offices at 25 State Police Drive, 
West Trenton, New Jersey.
    A presentation on the Commission's retreat process will be held at 
11:00 a.m. at the same location. In December 1995 the Commission 
conducted a retreat to examine the agency and its future. The process 
progressed through interviews with key constituents; an extensive 
constituent survey; a niche selection process and preparation of a 
vision and mission statement entitled ``Charting the Future'', adopted 
by the Commission on December 17, 1997. The results of the retreat 
process and next steps will be reviewed at this presentation. A 
``Summary of Delaware River Basin Commission Retreat Process'' and 
``Charting the Future'' are available upon request by contacting Susan 
M. Weisman at (609) 883-9500 ext. 203.
    In addition to the subjects listed which are scheduled for public 
hearing at the 1:00 p.m. business meeting, the Commission will also 
address the following: Minutes of the December 17, 1997 business 
meeting; announcements; General Counsel's Report; report on Basin 
hydrologic conditions; a resolution to adopt the current expense and 
capital budgets for Fiscal Year 1999; a resolution to designate the 
Chair of the Flow Management Technical Advisory Committee as the Chair 
at meetings of the Parties to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Decree 
concerning drought-related resolutions; a resolution to amend the 
Ground Water Protected Area Regulations for Southeastern Pennsylvania 
by the establishment of numerical withdrawal limits for Protected Area 
subbasins; and public dialogue. A ``Response Document on Proposed 
Amendments to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area 
Regulations'' is also available upon request by contacting Ms. Weisman 
at the number provided above.
    The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:

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

1. Portland Borough Authority  D-97-29 CP

    An application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to 
supply up to 5.18 million gallons (mg)/30 days of water to the 
applicant's distribution system from new Well No. 3, and to increase 
the existing withdrawal limit from all wells to 5.7 mg/30 days. The 
project is located in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, 
Pennsylvania.

2. Pennsylvania Power & Light Company  D-97-37

    A project to construct two 12-kilowatt aerial power line crossings: 
one on a reach of the Schuylkill River and one on a reach of the Little 
Schuylkill River near their confluence. Both crossings are on reaches 
of the rivers designated as Scenic Rivers by the Pennsylvania

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Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and included in the 
DRBC Comprehensive Plan. The proposed power line will provide service 
to an existing commercial enterprise in Port Clinton, Schuylkill 
County, Pennsylvania. The line will cross on poles located near two 
bridges; one just upstream of a railroad bridge over the Schuylkill 
River between Tilden Township, Berks County and Port Clinton Borough, 
Schuylkill County, and one at the Broad Street Bridge over the Little 
Schuylkill River in Port Clinton Borough.

3. Glen Mills Schools  D-97-39

    A surface water withdrawal project to provide a monthly average of 
367,000 gallons per day (gpd) (11 mg/30 days) for irrigation of the 
proposed 18-hole Golf Course at Glen Mills located in Thornbury 
Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The applicant proposes to 
withdraw water from Chester Creek and, if needed to supplement flow, 
from two existing on-site wells (averaging less than 100,000 gpd).

4. American Cyanamid Company  D-97-41

    A project to upgrade an existing 120,000 gpd average monthly 
capacity industrial wastewater treatment plant (IWTP) located at the 
applicant's Agricultural Research Division facilities at U.S. Route 1 
and Quakerbridge Road in West Windsor Township, Mercer County, New 
Jersey. The IWTP will continue to provide secondary biological 
treatment utilizing an extended aeration activated sludge process. 
Tertiary filtration will be provided as well as ultraviolet 
disinfection prior to discharge via an aeration cascade to an unnamed 
tributary of the Assunpink Creek. The applicant's facilities are 
located on property that straddles the Delaware River Basin divide and 
a major portion of the applicant's water source is obtained from wells 
located outside the Delaware River Basin. However, the applicant 
proposes a high overall BOD removal rate (98 percent) that will offset 
the imported load.

5. City of Bethlehem Authority  D-97-47 CP

    A proposed temporary emergency surface water withdrawal project 
that entails installation of an intake structure in the Beltzville 
Reservoir, just downstream of the confluence of Pohopoco Creek with the 
Reservoir's backwater, in Towamensing Township, Carbon County, 
Pennsylvania. The withdrawal is planned to provide an average of 15 
million gallons per day during a three-year period while the 
applicant's Penn Forest Dam is undergoing reconstruction and refilling. 
The applicant's distribution system serves the City of Bethlehem and 11 
other municipalities in its vicinity, in both Lehigh and Northampton 
Counties. Documents relating to these items may be examined at the 
Commission's offices. Preliminary dockets are available in single 
copies upon request. Please contact Thomas L. Brand at (609) 883-9500 
ext. 221 concerning docket-related questions. Persons wishing to 
testify at this hearing are requested to register with the Secretary at 
(609) 883-9500 ext. 203 prior to the hearing.

    Dated: January 12, 1998.
Susan M. Weisman,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-1416 Filed 1-21-98; 8:45 am]
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