[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 38 (Monday, February 28, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9619-9621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3768]


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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 followed by a public hearing on 
Wednesday, March 16, 2005. The hearing will be part of the Commission's 
regular business meeting. Both the conference session and business 
meeting are open to the public and will be held at the offices of Wolf, 
Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, LLP, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, in the 26th floor conference room.
    The conference among the commissioners and staff will begin at 9:30 
a.m. Topics of discussion will include: a status report on the 
development of numeric values for existing water quality in the Lower 
Delaware; a report of the Water Management Advisory Committee; a report 
of the Flow Management Technical Advisory Committee; a proposal to 
amend Resolution No. 2002-33 relating to the operation of Lake 
Wallenpaupack during drought watch, drought warning and drought 
operations (previously noticed as a resolution to amend the Water Code 
and Comprehensive Plan relating to the coordinated operation of lower 
basin and hydroelectric reservoirs during a basinwide drought); a 
report on the February 17-18, 2005 meeting of the Expert Panel for the 
Phase 2 TMDL for PCBs in the Delaware Estuary; and a proposal to amend 
the Water Quality Regulations, Water Code and Comprehensive Plan by 
establishing pollutant minimization plan requirements for point and 
non-point discharges following issuance of a TMDL or assimilative 
capacity determination.
    The subjects of the public hearing to be held during the 1:30 p.m. 
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meeting include the dockets listed below:
    1. Forest Park Water (North Penn and North Wales Water Authorities) 
D-65-76 CP-9. An application to treat and discharge additional 
wastewater resulting from the proposed expansion of the Forest Park 
Water Treatment Plant located in Chalfont Borough, Bucks County, 
Pennsylvania. The applicant clarifies and disinfects up to 2 million 
gallons per day (mgd) of filter backwash and rinse water prior to 
discharging to Pine Run in the Neshaminy Creek Watershed. The potable 
water filtration plant will be expanded from 30 to 40 mgd to meet the 
existing Water Allocation Permit limit. Therefore, no expansion of the 
Point Pleasant Pumping Station on the Delaware River is required. The 
expanded waste water treatment and water filtration facilities will 
continue to serve portions of Bucks and Montgomery Counties, both in 
Pennsylvania.
    2. Borough of Phoenixville D-67-80 CP-2. An application to upgrade 
a 4 million gallon per day sewage treatment plant (STP) to meet 
proposed nitrification standards and to improve effluent disinfection. 
The project is located off the intersection of Main Street and Second 
Avenue in Phoenixville Borough, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The 
project will continue to serve Phoenixville Borough, Schuylkill 
Township and East Pikeland Township, all in Chester County. STP 
effluent will continue to be discharged to the non-tidal Schuylkill 
River in an area designated as Modified-Recreational in the DRBC 
Comprehensive Plan. No expansion of annual average treatment capacity 
is proposed, but the ability to treat wet weather related surges will 
be significantly improved.
    3. Waste Management Disposal Services of Pennsylvania, Inc. D-88-
54-2. An application to modify a landfill leachate treatment plant 
discharge to the tidal Delaware River via a constructed discharge cove 
in Water Quality Zone 2. The treatment plant serves the Tullytown and 
GROWS Landfills and is located off Bordentown Road in Falls Township, 
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The existing 0.1 million gallon per day 
leachate treatment plant utilizes the Best Available Treatment 
Technology but cannot consistently meet effluent total dissolved solids 
and color limits. The docket holder has requested modification to its 
docket to allow an increase in the average discharge concentration of 
Total Dissolved Solids to 10,000 mg/l from the current 6,560 mg/l and 
an increase in the maximum effluent limit for True Color to 1,500 units 
from the current 750 units on a platinum-cobalt scale. In support of 
its requested modifications, the docket holder has completed an 
environmental study that indicates the changes would result in no 
significant impact to the Delaware Estuary. No increase in treatment 
plant capacity is proposed. The docket holder also proposes to 
construct two effluent storage tanks at the GROWS leachate treatment 
plant to replace an existing tank and seeks approval to haul leachate 
to a proposed transfer station that will reroute flow to the 
Morrisville Borough sewage treatment plant, just upstream on the tidal 
Delaware River within Water Quality Zone 2.
    4. County of Bucks--Neshaminy Manor Complex D-91-36 CP RENEWAL. An 
application for the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to 
continue withdrawal of 6.0 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's 
commercial and institutional water supply distribution system from 
existing Wells Nos. 4 and 5 in the Lockatong and Stockton formations, 
respectively. The project is located in Doylestown Township, Bucks 
County, Pennsylvania and is located in the Southeastern Pennsylvania 
Ground Water Protected Area.
    5. Talamore at Oak Terrace Inc. D-93-30-2. An application for 
renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to continue to supply up 
to 5.0 million gallons per 30 days (mg/30 days) of water for 
supplemental irrigation of the applicant's golf course from three 
existing wells, all in the Stockton Formation. No change in the 
existing allocation is proposed. The project is located in the Park 
Creek Watershed in Horsham Township, Montgomery County, in the 
Southeast Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    6. Sealed Air Corporation D-94-81-2. An application for renewal of 
a ground water withdrawal project to continue to supply up to 8.0 
million gallons per thirty days of water for industrial process from 
existing Wells Nos. PW-1 and PW-2 located in the Buffalo Springs 
Formation. No increase in allocation is proposed. The project is 
located in the Schuylkill River Watershed in the City of Reading, Berks 
County, Pennsylvania.
    7. Audubon Water Company D-2004-4 CP. An application for approval 
of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 14.688 mg/30 days 
of water to the applicant's public water distribution system from new 
Well No. AWC-14 in the Stockton Formation, 1.44 mg/30 days of water 
from Wells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and to increase the existing withdrawal from 
all wells to 49.79 mg/30 days. The project wells are located in the 
Pine Run and Schuylkill River watersheds in Lower Providence Township, 
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the Southeastern Pennsylvania 
Ground Water Protected Area.
    8. West Bradford Township D-2004-22 CP. An application to construct 
a 0.146 million gallon per day (mgd) sewage treatment plant (STP) to 
serve a proposed 286 home development on the 559 acre DuPont Estate 
property off the intersection of Lone Eagle and Romansville Roads in 
West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Following 
secondary treatment in oxidation lagoons, disinfected effluent will be 
spray applied to 26 adjacent acres at a rate of 0.16 inches per hour. A 
14.7 million gallon storage pond will be provided to hold effluent for 
up to 100 days during prolonged cold or wet weather periods; therefore, 
no discharge to Broad Run in the West Branch Brandywine Creek Watershed 
is required.
    9. Mobile Pipe Line Company D-2004-36-1. An application to 
construct a new 12-inch diameter refined petroleum products pipeline 
under the Delaware River to replace a common-trench dual pipeline, 
which is also used to convey liquid petroleum products (gasoline, 
heating oil and diesel fuel). The proposed pipeline crossing of the 
tidal Delaware River in DRBC Water Quality Zone 3 will utilize the best 
available technology to install the new pipeline approximately 30 to 50 
feet below the bottom of the Delaware River, via the directional 
drilling method. The proposed 5,200 foot long pipeline will be 
connected on the New Jersey side of the Delaware Estuary with a 
proposed 1,400 foot long conventional trench pipeline to the Valero 
Refinery in Greenwich Township, Gloucester County. On the Pennsylvania 
side of the Delaware River, the proposed pipeline will be connected to 
a proposed 1,350 foot long conventional trench pipeline in Tinicum 
Township, Delaware County, where it will convey the flow to the 
existing distribution system. Less than one acre of wetlands will be 
disturbed, and that will be of temporary duration. The proposed 
pipeline will be pressure-tested using up to 50,000 gallons of potable 
water from the Philadelphia Water Department, which has adequate 
existing capacity, prior to the discharge to the Delaware Estuary via 
an existing energy-diffusing and chlorine-dissipating drainage swale.
    10. Mafco Worldwide Corporation D-2004-38-1. An application for 
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water withdrawal project to supply up to 11 million gallons per 30 days 
(mg/30 days) of water to the applicant's industrial food processing 
facility from Wells Nos. 1 East and 3 West and up to 11 mg/30 days from 
the Delaware River intakes and to limit the existing withdrawal from 
all sources to 11 mg/30 days. The project is located in the Delaware 
River in the City of Camden, Camden County, New Jersey.
    11. Alcoa Extrusions, Inc. D-2005-1-1. An application for an 
existing industrial wastewater treatment plant to process up to 0.1 
million gallons per day and to continue to discharge to the West Branch 
Schuylkill River through five existing outfalls. No modification of the 
existing plant or increase in flow is proposed. The applicant is a 
manufacturing facility located in Cressona Borough, Schuylkill County, 
Pennsylvania.
    In addition to the public hearing on the dockets listed above, the 
Commission's 1:30 p.m. business meeting will include a public hearing 
and possible action on a resolution to amend Resolution No. 2002-33 
relating to the operation of Lake Wallenpaupack during drought watch, 
drought warning and drought operations (previously noticed as a 
resolution to amend the Water Code and Comprehensive Plan relating to 
the coordinated operation of lower basin and hydroelectric reservoirs 
during a basinwide drought); and a resolution to amend the Water 
Quality Regulations, Water Code and Comprehensive Plan by establishing 
pollutant minimization plan requirements for point and non-point 
discharges following issuance of a TMDL or assimilative capacity 
determination.
    The public hearing on the resolution to amend Resolution No. 2002-
33 is the second public hearing on this item and is limited to comments 
on Paragraph 1.B.2. of the resolution. Paragraph 1.B.2. provides that 
during drought warning and drought operations, Lake Wallenpaupack will 
be utilized with consideration given to established flow and 
temperature targets in the Upper Delaware River and in the West Branch 
Delaware, East Branch Delaware, and Neversink Rivers. Comment on all 
other aspects of the resolution was closed following a public hearing 
on January 19, 2005.
    The meeting will also include: adoption of the Minutes of the 
January 19, 2005 business meeting; announcements; a report on basin 
hydrologic conditions; a report by the executive director; a report by 
the Commission's general counsel; and an opportunity for public 
dialogue. Draft dockets and the resolutions scheduled for public 
hearing or action on March 16, 2005 will be posted on the Commission's 
Web site, http://www.drbc.net, where they can be accessed through the 
Notice of Commission Meeting and Public Hearing. Additional documents 
relating to the dockets and other items may be examined at the 
Commission's offices. Please contact William Muszynski at 609-883-9500 
ext. 221 with any docket-related questions.
    Individuals in need of an accommodation as provided for in the 
Americans with Disabilities Act who wish to attend the informational 
meeting, conference session or hearings should contact the commission 
secretary directly at 609-883-9500 ext. 203 or through the 
Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) at 711, to discuss how the 
Commission may accommodate your needs.

    Dated: February 22, 2005.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-3768 Filed 2-25-05; 8:45 am]
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