98-9971. Notice of Commission Meeting and Public Hearing

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 72 (Wednesday, April 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18388-18389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9971]


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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 Tuesday, April 21, 1998. The hearing will 
be part of the Commission's regular business meeting which is open to 
the public and scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Seminar Room of 
the Burlington Meeting House at 340 High Street, Burlington, New 
Jersey.
    In addition to the subjects listed below which are scheduled for 
public hearing, the Commission will also address the following: Minutes 
of the March 25, 1998 business meeting; announcements; General 
Counsel's

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Report; report on Basin hydrologic conditions; overview of Water 
Snapshot '96-'98; and public dialogue.
    The subjects of the hearing will be as follows:
    Applications for Approval of the Following Projects Pursuant to 
Article 10.3, Article 11 and/or Section 3.8 of the Compact:
    1. Superior Tube Company D-96-13. A ground water withdrawal project 
to withdraw up to 13 million gallons (mg)/30 days of water as part of 
the applicant's ground water remediation system from new Well Nos. MW-
18, MW-19, MW-20, MW-22 and PW-3D, and to limit the withdrawal from all 
wells to 13 mg/30 days. The project is located in Lower Providence 
Township, Montgomery County, in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground 
Water Protected Area.
    2. Superior Tube Company D-97-23. A project to consolidate 
discharges from the applicant's industrial wastewater treatment system, 
ground water remediation treatment system, and non-contact cooling 
water into one new outfall to Perkiomen Creek, at a combined average 
monthly rate of approximately 0.273 million gallons per day (mgd). The 
existing effluents are currently discharged to tributaries of the 
Perkiomen Creek (an unnamed tributary and French Run). The proposed 
outfall will be located just to the west of the applicant's specialty 
metal tube manufacturing plant site just north of Route 422 on the east 
side of the Perkiomen Creek in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery 
County, Pennsylvania.
    3. Newmanstown Water Authority D-97-40 CP. A ground water 
withdrawal project to supply up to 6 mg/30 days of water to the 
applicant's distribution system from new Well No. 5, and to limit the 
withdrawal from Well Nos. 1, 4 and 5 to 10.3 mg/30 days. The project is 
located in Millcreek Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
    4. AES Ironwood Power, Inc. D-97-45. A project to construct a 700 
megawatt gas-fired combined cycle electric generation facility in South 
Lebanon Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The applicant proposes 
to meet its water needs of up to 4.5 mgd by diversion of up to 2.25 mgd 
from an existing quarry discharge to Tulpehocken Creek (located in the 
Delaware River Basin), and by diversion of up to 2.25 mgd from a 
portion of the City of Lebanon sewage treatment plant wastewater 
discharge from Quittapahilla Creek (located in the Susquehanna River 
Basin). While the diversion of water from the discharge to 
Quittapahilla Creek is an importation of water into the Delaware River 
Basin, the proposed project is designed to have no discharge to surface 
or ground water.
    5. Fairton Federal Correctional Institution D-98-5 CP. A ground 
water withdrawal project to supply up to 8.53 mg/30 days of water to 
the applicant's prison facility from existing Well Nos. 1 and 2, and to 
limit the withdrawal from all wells to 8.53 mg/30 days. The project is 
located in Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
    6. Evansburg Water Company D-98-12 CP. A ground water withdrawal 
project to supply up to 0.9 mg/30 days of water to the applicant's 
Evansburg Division system from Well No. 102, and to limit the 
withdrawal from all wells to 2.6 mg/30 days. The project is located in 
Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, in the Southeastern 
Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected Area.
    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 [phone] 
ext. 221 concerning docket-related questions. Persons wishing to 
testify at this hearing are requested to register with the Secretary at 
[phone] ext. 203 prior to the hearing.

    Dated: April 7, 1998.
Susan M. Weisman,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-9971 Filed 4-14-98; 8:45 am]
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