[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 202 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54067-54068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25883]
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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, October 25, 1995. The hearing
will be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open
to the public and scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. in the University of
Delaware's Wilcastle Center Ballroom, 2600-2800 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Wilmington, Delaware.
An informal conference among the Commissioners and staff will be
held at 10 a.m. at the same location and will include discussion of the
Delaware Estuary Program implementation phase organizational structure;
Delaware Riverkeeper request for Commission consideration of cumulative
impacts of proposed Pennsylvania wetland fill
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regulation and water quality considerations of Blue Marsh Reservoir.
The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:
Current Expense and Capital Budgets. A proposed current expense
budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, in the aggregate
amount of $3,294,500 and a capital budget for the same period in the
amount of $2,147,500 in revenue and $1,500,500 in expenditures. Copies
of the current expense and capital budget are available from the
Commission on request by contacting Richard C. Gore.
A Proposal to Adopt the 1995-1996 Water Resources Program. A
proposal that the 1995-1996 Water Resources Program and the activities,
programs, initiatives, concerns, projections and proposals identified
and set forth therein be accepted and adopted, in accordance with the
requirements of Section 13.2 of the Delaware River Basin Compact.
Applications for Approval of the Following Projects Pursuant to Article
10.3, Article 11 and/or Section 3.8 of the Compact:
1. Holdover Project: C S Water & Sewer Associates D-76-21
(Revised). An application to revise DRBC Docket No. D-76-21 to approve
an existing discharge from a 0.1 million gallons per day (mgd) sewage
treatment plant (STP) to an unnamed tributary of the Delaware River;
the applicant also proposes to modify the plant by adding an
equalization tank. The STP was originally approved predicated upon a
discharge directly to the Delaware River. The project STP is located in
Lackawaxen Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania. The STP will continue
to serve the Masthope Mountain Community residential/resort
development. This hearing continues that of September 27, 1995.
2. Holdover Project: Borough of Dublin D-95-25 CP. An application
for approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply water to
the applicant's distribution system from existing Well Nos. 1, 2 and 3
and new Well No. 5, and to retain the existing withdrawal limit from
all wells to 4.36 million gallons (mg)/30 days. Well No. 5 is being
developed as an alternate public water supply in accordance with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency record of decision for the Dublin
TCE Superfund site. The project is located in the Borough of Dublin,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground
Water Protected Area. This hearing continues that of September 27,
1995.
3. U.S. Department of Justice D-94-11 CP. An application to expand
the applicant's Otisville Federal Correctional Institute STP from 0.2
mgd to 0.5 mgd. The expanded STP will provide a new advanced secondary
biological treatment system and continue to provide tertiary filtration
and ultraviolet disinfection prior to discharge to an unnamed
intermittent stream of Basher Kill, a Neversink River tributary. The
project is located approximately 1.5 miles north of Otisville in the
Town of Mount Hope, Orange County, New York.
4. Beacon Hill at Upper Freehold D-94-64 CP. An application for
approval of a ground water withdrawal project to supply up to 5.2 mg/30
days of water to the applicant's proposed residential development from
new Wells Nos. 1 and 2B, and to limit the withdrawal from all wells to
5.2 mg/30 days. The project is located in Upper Freehold Township,
Monmouth County, New Jersey.
5. Buckingham Township D-95-43 CP. A project to expand the
applicant's Fieldstone STP from 0.022 mgd to 0.061 mgd. The expanded
STP will serve growth in the existing residential development of
Fieldstone and the proposed residential development of Sylvan Glen,
both located in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The
STP will continue to provide secondary biological treatment utilizing
extended aeration lagoons and, after disinfection, will discharge the
increased flow to new spray irrigation fields located at the
intersection of Cold Spring Creamery Road and Church School Lane in
Buckingham Township. The Fieldstone spray fields, located near the
existing STP on the east side of Church School Lane, will be expanded
and redesigned to include a new treatment lagoon. The proposed Sylvan
Glen spray fields will be in the Pine Run watershed.
Documents relating to these items may be examined at the
Commission's offices. Preliminary dockets are available in single
copies upon request. Please contact George C. Elias concerning docket-
related questions. Persons wishing to testify at this hearing are
requested to register with the Secretary prior to the hearing.
Dated: October 10, 1995.
Susan M. Weisman,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-25883 Filed 10-18-95; 8:45 am]
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