[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 227 (Monday, November 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68569-68571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19997]


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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 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006. 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 
Commission's office building, located at 25 State Police Drive in West 
Trenton, New Jersey.
    The conference among the commissioners and staff will begin at 
10:15 a.m. Topics of discussion include a report on progress to date of 
the Flood Mitigation Task Force, the planned release of task force 
recommendations, and the process by which public comment will be 
solicited on these recommendations; a report on the status of 
development of a long-term multi-objective management plan for the New 
York City Delaware Basin reservoirs; a presentation on the draft State 
of the Basin Report; a status report on the process for establishing a 
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for PCBs for the Delaware Bay; and a 
discussion of the Federal Coordination Summit held in July 2006 and 
subsequent inter-agency coordination efforts.
    The subjects of the public hearing to be held during the 1:30 p.m. 
business meeting include the dockets listed below:
    1. Matamoras Municipal Authority D-81-76 CP-6. An application to 
expand the existing service area to include property within Westfall 
Township north and south of Mountain Avenue. The applicant requests to 
retain the existing allocation of 11.7 million gallons per thirty days 
(mg/30 days) from existing Wells Nos. 3, 5, 7, 8 and 8A. The project is 
located in Matamoras Borough and Westfall Township, Pike County, 
Pennsylvania within the drainage area to a section of the non-tidal 
Delaware River known as the Middle Delaware, which is classified as 
Special Protection Waters.
    2. Joseph Jackewicz, Sr. D-91-53-2. An application for the renewal 
of a ground and surface water withdrawal project to continue withdrawal 
of 219.8 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's agricultural irrigation 
system from replacement Well No. Townsend 3, eight existing wells and 
one existing surface water intake. The project is located in the 
Tidbury Creek, Cypress Branch and Double Run watersheds in the Town of 
Magnolia, Kent County, Delaware.
    3. Magnesium Elektron, Inc. D-94-73-2. An application for approval 
of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 9.8 mg/30 days of 
water to the applicant's industrial facility and ground water 
remediation project from new Well No. 9 and to retain the existing 
withdrawal from all wells of 9.8 mg/30 days. The project is located in 
the Lockatong Formation in the Wickechoeke Creek Watershed in Kingwood 
Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey and within the drainage area to 
the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Lower 
Delaware, which is classified as Special Protection Waters.
    4. Horsehead Corporation D-67-196-2. An application for a change of 
ownership and a docket modification for the discharge of non-contact 
cooling water, boiler blow-down, and effluent from metal recovery zones 
(MRZs) for the Palmerton East Plant. The discharges consists of 
approximately 0.15 million gallons per day (mgd) of non-contact cooling 
water from Outfall 004, 0.31 mgd of non-contact cooling water and 
boiler blow-down from Outfall 005, a 0.128 mgd MRZ discharge from 
Outfall 015, a 0.036 mgd MRZ discharge from Outfall 019 and a 0.040 mgd 
MRZ related discharge from Outfall

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022. The discharges from Outfall Nos. 004, 005, 015, 019 and 022 are to 
the Aquashicola Creek, which is a tributary to the Lehigh River. The 
discharges are located in the drainage area of the Lower Delaware 
Special Protection Water Area. The facility is located in Palmerton 
Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
    5. Cabot Corporation D-70-72-3. An application for approval to 
modify planned improvements to the applicant's industrial wastewater 
treatment plant (IWTP) upgrade project, approved by the Commission on 
October 24, 2004, and to implement manufacturing operation improvements 
necessary to meet water quality objectives in Swamp Creek. The 
applicant produces inorganic chemicals and primary nonferrous metals 
and alloys at its Boyertown Facility, which is located off Swamp Creek 
Road and straddles the borders of Douglass Township, Montgomery County 
and Colebrookdale Township, Berks County, both in Pennsylvania. Based 
upon revised production rate projections, the applicant has determined 
that modification of the existing IWTP would be more cost effective 
than constructing new facilities. In addition, the average design flow 
is proposed to be reduced to 0.15 mgd from the previously approved 
0.222 mgd. The plant effluent, along with storm water, cooling water 
and water supply treatment wastewater, will continue to be discharged 
via the existing outfall to Swamp Creek in the Schuylkill River 
Watershed. The project is located within the Southeastern Pennsylvania 
Ground Water Protected Area, within the drainage area of a portion of 
the Schuylkill River that is conditionally designated as ``Modified 
Recreational'' in DRBC's Comprehensive Plan.
    6. Village of Deposit D-74-57 CP-2. An application for approval of 
a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) expansion project to provide 
secondary treatment to up to 0.7 mgd, a proposed increase of 0.1 mgd 
from the existing capacity. The WWTP discharges effluent to the West 
Branch Delaware River in DRBC Water Quality Zone W1. The project is 
located in the Upper Delaware Special Protection Waters drainage area 
in the Village of Deposit, Broome and Delaware Counties, New York. The 
WWTP will continue to serve the Village of Deposit and may serve the 
Town of Deposit, Delaware County, New York in the future.
    7. Glenn Springs Holdings, Inc. D-76-17-2. An application to 
discharge treated storm and ground water into the Schuylkill River in 
an area that is conditionally designated as ``Modified Recreational'' 
in the Comprehensive Plan. The project is located south of State Route 
422 at the former Occidental Chemical Corporation facility in Lower 
Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Occidental 
Chemical Corporation remains the owner of the property, but its 
affiliate, Glenn Springs Holdings, Inc. is the operator of the ground 
and storm water treatment facility. Currently, up to 0.5 mgd of flow 
containing volatile organic chemicals is treated by carbon absorption 
and air stripping before it is discharged to the Pottstown City Sewage 
Treatment Plant. Approval is requested to discharge the treated 
effluent directly to the Schuylkill River through storm water Outfall 
005, as a cost-savings measure. No increase in capacity is proposed, 
nor are any new production or recovery wells necessary. The industrial 
waste treatment plant and surface water supply intake described in DRBC 
Docket No. D-76-17 will remain inactive. The production (water supply) 
wells that were referenced in that docket will remain in use as 
recovery wells. The combined allocation for Recovery Wells Nos. 1, 1R, 
4, 5, 6, 8, 8A, 9, 9A, 10A, A, B and C will be a total of 15 mg/30 
days. The wells are located in the Brunswick Formation within the 
Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    8. Borough of Alburtis D-91-42 CP-3. An application to replace the 
withdrawal of water from Well No. 3 in the applicant's water supply 
system with a withdrawal from Well No. 3A, because Well No. 3 has 
become an unreliable source of supply. The applicant requests that the 
withdrawal from replacement Well No. 3A be limited to 7.5 mg/30 days of 
water, and that the total withdrawal from all wells be increased to 
11.487 mg/30 days from the previous allocation of 6.5 mg/30 days in 
order to meet projected increases in service area demand. The project 
is located in the Leithsville and Hornblende Gneiss formations in the 
Swabia Creek Watershed in Alburtis Borough, Lehigh County, 
Pennsylvania.
    9. New Hanover Township Authority D-99-40 CP-2. An application for 
approval of the expansion of the New Hanover Township Authority's WWTP 
from 0.825 mgd to 1.925 mgd. The WWTP will continue to discharge to 
Swamp Creek, a tributary of the Perkiomen Creek, which is tributary to 
the Schuylkill River. The facility is located in New Hanover Township, 
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
    10. The Upper Hanover Authority D-2002-10 CP-2. An application for 
the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to increase the total 
system withdrawal from 32.12 mg/30 days to 43.113 mg/30 days to supply 
the applicant's public water supply distribution system from existing 
Wells Nos. RH-1, RH-2, RH-3, TUHA-1, TUHA-2, TUHA-3, TUHA-4 and 
Kemmerer Spring in the Brunswick and Leithsville Formations. The 
increased allocation is requested in order to meet projected increases 
in service area demand. The project is located in the Perkiomen and 
Macoby Creek Watersheds in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, 
Pennsylvania and within the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water 
Protected Area.
    11. Middle Smithfield Township Municipal Authority D-73-209 CP-1. 
An application for the expansion and reconstruction of the existing 
Winona Lakes WWTP from 0.022 mgd to 0.050 mgd. The project includes the 
construction of a new 50,000 gallons per day (gpd) phased isolation 
ditch wastewater treatment facility to replace the existing 22,000 gpd 
extended aeration wastewater treatment facility. The expansion of the 
plant is to accommodate expected wastewater flows from Sections 12, 13 
and 14 of the Winona Lakes community. The WWTP will discharge to the 
Bushkill Creek, a tributary to the Middle Delaware River Special 
Protection Waters. The facility is located in Middle Smithfield 
Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
    12. Artesian Water Company D-2003-22 CP-3. An application for 
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 8.7 mg/30 
days of water to the applicant's public water supply distribution 
system from new Well Thomas Cove 2 and to retain the existing 
withdrawal from all wells in 9 wellfields in the applicant's Southern 
Distribution System of 150 mg/30 days. The project is located in the 
Mt. Laurel Formation in the Appoquinimink River Watershed in New Castle 
County, Delaware.
    13. Bear Creek Management Company, LLC D-2005-16-1. An application 
for approval to construct a new WWTP to serve the applicant's Bear 
Creek Ski Area and to operate an on-site iron abatement system. The 
0.045 mgd treatment plant will discharge to sixteen holding tanks used 
for post treatment equalization prior to being pumped to a drip field 
at a maximum daily rate not to exceed 0.035 mgd. The facility is 
located in the Swabia Creek Watershed, a tributary to the Little Lehigh 
River in Long Swamp Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The on-site 
iron abatement system will include water quality monitoring,

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sediment sampling, removal of iron from the water column and removal of 
iron precipitate from the wetland substrate. The project is located in 
the drainage area to a section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as 
the Lower Delaware, which is classified as Special Protection Waters.
    14. Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission D-2006-7 CP-1. An 
application for approval of a bridge modification project, located in a 
recreational area which is included in the DRBC Comprehensive Plan. The 
U.S. Route 1 Toll Bridge connects the Borough of Morrisville, Bucks 
County, Pennsylvania with the City of Trenton, Mercer County, New 
Jersey and is located at the base of DRBC Water Quality Zone 1E. The 
bridge will be widened at a point where it passes over the Delaware 
Canal, formerly known as Roosevelt State Park.
    15. Ingersoll-Rand Company D-2006-14-1. An application for the 
approval of an existing groundwater remediation discharge project 
located at the Ingersoll-Rand facility in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. The 
existing remediation system discharges approximately 0.090 mgd via 
Outfall 002 to Lopatcong Creek, which converges with the Delaware River 
at River Mile 182, within a reach classified as ``Significant Resource 
Waters.'' The facility is located in the Town of Phillipsburg and 
Lopatcong Township, Warren County, New Jersey.
    16. Spring Ford Country Club D-2006-16-1. An application for 
approval of a ground and surface water withdrawal project to supply up 
to 11.2 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's golf course irrigation 
system from existing Well No. 1 and up to 21.6 mg/30 days from a pond 
on an unnamed tributary to Mingo Creek and to limit the existing 
withdrawal from all sources to 21.6 mg/30 days. The project is located 
in the Brunswick Formation in the Mingo Creek Watershed in Limerick 
Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and is located in the 
Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    17. Pocono Township D-2006-17 CP-1. An application for the 
construction of a new 2.0 mgd WWTP to accommodate flows from existing 
WWTPs and anticipated regional growth. The project includes the 
construction of a collection system for the Route 611 Corridor. The 
WWTP will discharge via an approximately 6-mile forcemain to the 
Brodhead Creek, a tributary to the Middle Delaware River Special 
Protection Waters. The facility will be located in Pocono Township, 
Monroe 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 consideration of a resolution to re-authorize the Commission's 
Monitoring Advisory Committee and a resolution to adopt the 2007-2012 
Water Resources Program.
    The meeting will also include: adoption of the Minutes of the 
Commission's September 27, 2006 business meeting; announcements of 
upcoming advisory committee meetings and other events; a report by the 
Executive Director; a report by the Commission's General Counsel; and 
an opportunity for public dialogue.
    Draft dockets scheduled for public hearing on December 12, 2006 
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, extension 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 can accommodate your needs.

    Dated: November 20, 2006.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-19997 Filed 11-24-06; 8:45 am]
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