[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51295-51296]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24637]


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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 an informal conference and public hearing on Thursday, 
September 30, 1999. The hearing will be part of the Commission's 
regular business meeting. Both the conference and business meeting are 
open to the public and will be held in the Goddard Conference Room of 
the Commission's offices at 25 State Police Drive, West Trenton, New 
Jersey.
    The conference among the Commissioners and staff will begin at 9:30 
a.m. and will include a presentation on New York City's Water 
Conservation Program; status reports on drought conditions and the 
codification of the existing Comprehensive Plan; discussions of fiscal 
year 2001 budget and health insurance issues; summaries of the 
Governors' Summit and the flood preparedness meeting; and a report on 
the Pittsburgh Joint ICWP and River Basin Commission meeting.
    In addition to the subjects summarized below which are scheduled 
for public hearing at the 1:00 p.m. business meeting, the Commission 
will also address the following: Minutes of the August 18, 1999 
business meeting; announcements; report on Basin hydrologic conditions; 
reports by the Executive Director and General Counsel; and public 
dialogue. The Commission will consider resolutions to: confirm the 
appointment of the Secretary to the Commission; make FY '99 budget 
adjustments; amend the cost of the barrier-free unisex bathroom 
facility at the headquarters building; establish a Watershed Council; 
and approve a cooperative agreement for the Schuylkill River Monitoring 
Program. The Commission will also review and possibly act on drought 
related emergency resolutions.
    The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:
    1. Northeast Land Company D-89-10 CP RENEWAL. An application for 
the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 4.96 
million gallons (mg)/30 days of water to the applicant's distribution 
system from Well Midlake #1. Commission approval on April 26, 1989 was 
extended to 10 years. The applicant requests that the total withdrawal 
from the well remain limited to 4.96 mg/30 days. The project is located 
in Kidder Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
    2. Seabrook Brothers & Sons, Inc. D-98-44. A ground water 
withdrawal project to supply up to 133.6 mg/30 days of water to the 
applicant's vegetable processing and packaging facility from existing 
Well Nos. 1, 2R and 4, and new Well No. 5. The project entails an 
increase of the existing total combined withdrawal limit from 117.5 mg/
30 days to 133.6 mg/30 days. The project is located in Upper Deerfield 
Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
    3. Utilities, Inc. D-98-47 CP. A project to replace the withdrawal 
of water from Well No. 1 which has become an unreliable source of 
supply, and to increase the total withdrawal from all wells from 8.25 
mg/30 days to 10.65 mg/30 days. The applicant requests that the 
withdrawal from replacement Well No. 6 be limited to 2.4 mg/30 days. 
The project wells are located in Stroud Township and will continue to 
serve the applicant's Penn Estates residential community located in 
Stroud and Pocono Townships, all in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
    4. Lower Providence Township Municipal Authority D-99-21 CP. A 
ground water withdrawal project to supply a combined total of up to 
2.27 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's golf course irrigation 
system from Well Nos. 1 and 2. The project is located in Lower 
Providence Township, Montgomery County in the Southeastern Pennsylvania 
Ground Water Protected Area.
    5. Pennsylvania-American Water Company D-99-29 CP. A project to 
upgrade and expand the applicant's existing 0.567 million gallons per 
day (mgd) secondary treatment plant to 1.256 mgd to provide advanced 
secondary treatment. The project will continue to serve the Pocono 
Country Place development in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, 
Pennsylvania. Treated effluent will continue to discharge to East 
Branch Dresser Run, a tributary of Tobyhanna Creek in the Lehigh River 
watershed.
    6. Central Carbon Municipal Authority D-99-48 CP. A project to 
construct a new 1.6 mgd oxidation ditch process sewage treatment plant 
to replace an existing failing overloaded 0.72 mgd plant. The new 
advanced secondary treatment plant is located approximately one-half 
mile downstream of the existing plant along the Lehigh River in 
Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The new facilities will 
serve portions of Franklin and Mahoning Townships, and Weissport and 
Lehighton Boroughs, all in Carbon

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County. The project effluent will discharge to the Lehigh River.
    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 Acting 
Secretary at (609) 883-9500 ext. 222 prior to the hearing.
    Individuals in need of an accommodation as provided for in the 
Americans With Disabilities Act who would like to attend the hearing 
should contact the Acting Secretary at (609) 883-9500 ext. 222 or 
through the New Jersey Relay Service at 1-800-852-7899 (TTY) to discuss 
how the DRBC may accommodate your needs.

    Dated: September 14, 1999.
Anne M. Zamonski,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-24637 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]
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