[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11890-11892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4217]


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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, March 12, 2008. The hearing 
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting. The business 
meeting is 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. No morning conference session is scheduled for this meeting.
    Please note that commission action on the Proposed Amendments to 
the Water Quality Regulations, Water Code and Comprehensive Plan to 
Classify the Lower Delaware River as Special Protection Waters (SPW) 
will not take place at this meeting. The earliest commission meeting 
date when action could be taken is May 14, 2008.
    The subjects of the public hearing to be held during the 1:30 p.m. 
business meeting include the dockets listed below:
    1. Freeland Borough Municipal Authority D-94-63 CP-2. An 
application for the renewal of a ground water withdrawal project to 
continue withdrawal of 17.2 million gallons per thirty days (mg/30 
days) to supply the applicant's public water supply distribution system 
from existing Wells Nos. 9, 12 and 14 in the Buck Mountain Mauch Chunk 
Formation. The project is located in the Pond Creek Watershed in 
Freeland Borough, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, within the drainage 
area to the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Lower 
Delaware, which is designated as Special Protection Waters.
    2. Township of Roxbury D-96-17 CP-2. An application for the renewal 
of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 19.8 mg/30 days 
from existing Wells Nos. 2, 4, 9 and 12. The project is located in the 
Stratified Drifts Aquifer in the Musconetcong River Watershed in 
Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey, within the drainage area 
to the section of the non-

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tidal Delaware River known as the Lower Delaware, which is designated 
as Special Protection Waters.
    3. Smithfield Beef Group (MOPAC) D-96-21-3. An application for 
approval of an upgrade of the existing 0.75 million gallon per day 
(mgd) industrial wastewater treatment plant (IWTP) in accordance with a 
Consent Order and Agreement issued by PADEP. The upgrade includes a new 
anaerobic lagoon, a new tertiary filtration system and a new 
ultraviolet light (UV) disinfection system. The IWTP will continue to 
discharge to the Skippack Creek. The IWTP is located in Franconia 
Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
    4. Nestl[eacute] Waters North America, Inc. D-98-27-3. An 
application for the renewal of a spring water withdrawal project to 
continue withdrawal of 9 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's bottled 
water operations from existing Hoffman Springs Nos. 1, 2 and 3 to 
supply up to 1.95 mg/30 days from the new Mattos Catchment No. 1 to 
supplement flow in Ontelaunee Creek. The project is located in the 
Ontelaunee Creek Watershed in Lynn Township, Lehigh County, 
Pennsylvania.
    5. Fifer Orchards, Inc. D-2002-20-2. A combined ground and surface 
water withdrawal project to continue to supply a maximum of 543 mg/30 
days of water to the applicant's irrigation of approximately 2,285 
acres of fruit and vegetables through two new wells, nine existing 
wells and nine existing intakes. The wells are located in the Columbia 
Formation in the St. Jones River Watershed in the City of Wyoming, Kent 
County, Delaware. Surface water will be withdrawn from a series of on-
site ponds in the St. Jones River Watershed.
    6. Ambler Borough D-75-16 CP-2. An application for approval of a 
rerate of the Ambler Borough wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) to 8.0 
mgd as a maximum monthly value. The WWTP's existing 6.5 mgd annual 
average flow will remain unchanged. The WWTP will continue to discharge 
to the Wissahickon Creek, a tributary to the Schuylkill River. The 
facility is located in Ambler Borough, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
    7. The Premcor Refining Group, Inc. D-93-4-6. An application to 
replace the withdrawal of water from Wells Nos. P-3A and P-4A in the 
applicant's water supply system that have become unreliable sources of 
supply and to increase the applicant's surface water withdrawal from 
the Delaware River and Red Lion Creek. Premcor requests that its 
combined withdrawal from replacement Wells Nos. P-3B and P-4B and seven 
existing wells remain limited to 180 mg/30 days; that its withdrawal 
from the Delaware River intake remain at 13,560 mg/30 days; that the 
docket authorize withdrawals of 38.9 mg/30 days from the Red Lion Creek 
intake and up to 56.2 mg/30 days from the Dragon Run intake, and that 
Premcor's combined withdrawal from all sources be limited to 13,655.1 
mg/30 days. The proposed allocation represents no increase in 
groundwater withdrawals, no increase from the Delaware River intake and 
the inclusion in a DRBC docket of previously un-docketed pre-Compact 
DNREC allocations from Dragon Run and Red Lion Creek. The project is 
located in the Potomac Formation in the C&D Canal East, Dragon Run 
Creek, Red Lion Creek and Delaware River watersheds in Delaware City, 
New Castle County, Delaware.
    8. Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. D-97-3-2. An application to use Wells 
Nos. 1 and 2 at the former Simpson Paper Company to serve the 
applicant's potable water supply system. The applicant seeks a maximum 
withdrawal of 42 mg/30 days from Wells Nos. 1 and 2, representing no 
change from the maximum combined withdrawal from the wells. The project 
is located in the Conestoga Formation in the Schuylkill River Watershed 
in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and is located 
in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    9. Town of Felton D-99-26 CP-2. An application for the renewal of a 
ground water withdrawal project and to decrease the maximum withdrawal 
from 5.7 mg/30 days to 5.328 mg/30 days to supply the applicant's 
public water supply distribution from existing Wells Nos. 2, 3 and 4 in 
the Frederica and Piney Point formations. The project is located in the 
Fan Branch Watershed in the Town of Felton, Kent County, Delaware.
    10. Upper Hanover Authority D-2001-61 CP-2. An application for 
approval of a WWTP expansion project that will increase treatment 
capacity from 0.15 mgd to 0.40 mgd, while maintaining existing effluent 
quality via the addition of sequencing batch reactor and tertiary 
filtration processes. The existing WWTP has reached its design capacity 
and the expansion project is needed to serve new development in Upper 
Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Following 
ultraviolet light disinfection, the WWTP effluent will be discharged to 
Macoby Creek, a tributary of Perkiomen Creek, within the Schuylkill 
River Watershed. The project is located in the Southeastern 
Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    11. Mountain Hill Cottages D-2005-2-1. An application to upgrade 
the septic system that serves the Mountain Hill Cottages development 
located off Cold Spring Road approximately 2,000 feet north of its 
intersection with Cantrell Road in the Town of Thompson, Sullivan 
County, New York. An additional septic system will be constructed to 
treat 5,250 gallons of flow. The effluent from the proposed septic 
system will be routed to a 14,000 gallon per day sand filter, which 
recharges the groundwater. No expansion of the sand filter is required, 
but a new chlorine contact tank will be provided. The project is in the 
Bush Kill Watershed, upstream from its confluence with the Neversink 
River in the drainage area of DRBC Special Protection Waters.
    12. Valleybrook Golf Club D-2006-21-1. An application for approval 
of a surface water withdrawal project to supply up to 7 mg/30 days of 
water to the applicant's golf course irrigation system from three 
surface water intakes from a series of one lake and retention ponds on 
Pines Run. The project is located in the Pines Run Watershed in 
Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
    13. Pocono Manor Investors Pt. 1, L.P. D-2006-43-1. A revised 
application for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply 
up to 15.984 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's Pocono Manor site 
from new Wells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and to limit the existing withdrawal 
from all wells to 15.984 mg/30 days. The wells will serve Phases I, II-
A, III & II-B of the docket holder's revised residential and commercial 
development plans. The project is located in the Catskill Formation in 
the Brodhead/Swiftwater Creek Watershed in Pocono Township, Monroe 
County, Pennsylvania. The location is also within the drainage area to 
the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Middle 
Delaware, which is classified as Special Protection Waters.
    14. Wayne Economic Development Corporation D-2007-18-1. An 
application for the approval of the new Sterling Business Park WWTP. 
The new 35,000 gpd WWTP will service the 252-acre Sterling Business 
Park of the Wayne County Economic Development Corporation (WEDCO). The 
Sterling Business Park will consist of up to 23 commercial building 
sites, ranging in size from 3 to 30 acres. The project includes a 7,000 
gpd non-potable water reuse system for restrooms and landscape 
irrigation. The applicant's WWTP will discharge to the West Branch 
Wallenpaupack Creek, within the section of the non-tidal Delaware

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River known as the Upper Delaware, which is classified as Special 
Protection Waters. The facility is located on State Route 0191, 
approximately one mile north of the S.R.0191/Newfoundland exit off I-84 
in Sterling Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
    15. Upper Makefield Township D-2007-24 CP-1. An application for 
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 8.43 mg/
30 days of water to the applicant's public water supply distribution 
system from new Wells HH1, HH2, HH4, GTW1 and GTW2. The project is 
located in the Brunswick and Lockatong formations in the Houghs Creek 
and Delaware River watersheds in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks 
County, Pennsylvania. The site is located within the drainage area to 
the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Lower 
Delaware, which is designated as Special Protection Waters.
    16. Upper Makefield Township D-2007-25 CP-1. An application for the 
approval of the new 20,000 gpd Gray Tract WWTP. The WWTP will serve 
approximately 96 age-restricted dwellings and 14 existing homes and is 
proposed to discharge to an unnamed tributary of Hough's Creek, which 
is tributary to the Delaware River. The facility is located in Upper 
Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, within the drainage 
area to the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Lower 
Delaware, which is designated as Special Protection Waters.
    17. Congoleum Corporation D-2007-35-1. An application to discharge 
an average of 122,000 gallons per day of non-contact cooling and storm 
water from the applicant's tile floor manufacturing facility. The 
discharge is to a Hamilton Township municipal storm sewer, which 
discharges to Hamilton Ditch and Miry Run, tributaries to the Delaware 
River. The facility is located in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New 
Jersey.
    18. U.S. Silica--Port Elizabeth Mine D-2007-37-1. An application 
for approval of a surface water withdrawal project to supply up to 288 
mg/30 days of water from surface water Intake No. 1 for sand and gravel 
processing and up to 0.778 mg/30 days from one well used for sanitary 
supply at the facility. The project is located in the Maurice River 
Watershed in Mauricetown Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
    19. Franconia Sewer Authority D-2007-41 CP-1. An application for 
approval of the construction of a new 0.15 mgd Franconia Sewer 
Authority WWTP, pump station and appurtenances. The new WWTP will serve 
the new Souderton Area High School and sanitary waste from Smithfield 
Beef Group (formerly Moyer Packing Company). The WWTP will discharge to 
the Skippack Creek, a tributary to the Perkiomen Creek, which is a 
tributary to the Schuylkill River. The facility will be located in 
Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
    20. Pocono Manor Investors, L.P. D-2007-44-1. An application for 
approval of a surface water withdrawal project to supply up to 0.72 mg/
30 days of water to the applicant's irrigation system from Intake No. 1 
and to limit the existing withdrawal from all intakes to 0.72 mg/30 
days. The project is located on Indian Run, a tributary to Pocono Creek 
in Pocono Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, within the drainage 
area to the section of the non-tidal Delaware River known as the Upper 
Delaware, which is designated as Special Protection Waters.
    21. Congoleum Corporation, D-2005-25-2. Approval is requested for 
corrections to the effluent table in section A.4.d. of Docket D-2005-
25-1 issued on March 1, 2006 for an industrial discharge of non-contact 
cooling water and stormwater from Congoleum Plant No. 2. The effluent 
table incorrectly listed limits for four parameters for which DRBC 
lacked applicable requirements: Bromodichlorormethane, Chloroform, 
Chlorine Produced Oxidants and Chronic Toxicity. The Executive Director 
subsequently issued corrected Docket D-2005-25-2, in which the state 
limits are listed for these parameters, pending ratification by the 
Commission. The discharge is made to the Hamilton Township storm sewer, 
which discharges to Pond Run, a tributary of the Assunpink Creek. The 
facility is located in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.
    22. Borough of South Coatesville, D-74-39 CP-2. Approval is 
requested for corrections to the effluent table in section A.4.d. of 
Docket D-74-39-CP-2 issued on July 18, 2007 for the rerate of the South 
Coatesville Wastewater Treatment Plant. The effluent table incorrectly 
listed a Commission limit for Dissolved Oxygen that is inapplicable to 
the South Coatesville Borough facility. The Executive Director 
subsequently issued corrected Docket D-74-39 CP-2, in which the 
applicable state limit is listed for this parameter, pending 
ratification by the Commission. The facility is located on the border 
between South Coatesville Borough and Modena Borough in Chester County, 
Pennsylvania. The discharge is to the West Brandywine Creek.
    In addition, the Commission's 1:30 p.m. business meeting will 
include adoption of the Minutes of the Commission's December 12, 2007 
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; consideration of a resolution for the 
minutes authorizing the Executive Director to engage an engineering 
firm to oversee lighting and HVAC improvements to the Commission's West 
Trenton office building; a resolution to adopt the Commission's annual 
budget for the Fiscal Year ending 2009 (July 1, 2008 through June 30, 
2009); and an opportunity for public dialogue. The hearing on the 
proposed budget took place on December 12, 2007.
    Draft dockets scheduled for public hearing on March 12, 2008 are 
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: February 28, 2008.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
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