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potential impacts to cultural and 

ecological resources, (4) public access 

and safety, (5) impacts to lake use, 

public parks and recreation, (6) 

aesthetics, (7) infrastructure, (8) lake 

water quality, (9) traffic patterns, (10) 

terrestrial and aquatic fish and wildlife 

habitat, (11) Federally-listed threatened 

and endangered species, and (12) 

cumulative impacts associated with 

past, current, and reasonably foreseeable 

future actions at Eufaula Lake. 

A public scoping meeting for the 

action will be conducted in early 

summer 2011 in Eufaula, OK or the 

vicinity. In addition, public workshops 

addressing updates to the SMP and MP 

may be held at locations near Eufaula 

Lake. News releases and notices 

informing the public and local, state, 

and Federal agencies of the proposed 

action and date of the public scoping 

meeting will be published in local 

newspapers. Comments received as a 

result of this notice, news releases, and 

the public scoping meeting will be used 

to assist the Tulsa District Corps of 

Engineers in identifying potential 

impacts to the quality of the human or 

natural environment. Affected Federal, 

state, or local agencies, affected Indian 

tribes, and other interested private 

organizations and parties are 

encouraged to participate in the scoping 

process by forwarding written 

comments to (see ADDRESSES) or 

attending the scoping meeting. 

The draft EIS will be available for 

public review and comment. While the 

specific date for release of the draft EIS 

has yet to be determined, all interested 

agencies, tribes, organizations and 

parties expressing an interest in this 

action will be placed on a mailing list 

for receipt of the draft EIS. In order to 

be considered, any comments and 

suggestions should be forwarded to (see 

ADDRESSES) in accordance with dates 

specified upon release of the draft EIS. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

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, May 

11, 2011. The hearing will be part of the 

Commission’s regular business meeting. 

The conference session and business 

meeting both are open to the public and 

will be held at the West Trenton 

Volunteer Fire Company, located at 40 

West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton, 

New Jersey. 

The conference among the 

commissioners and staff will begin at 11 

a.m. and will consist of two 

presentations: a report by Deputy 

Delaware River Master Gary N. 

Paulachok, P.G. of the U.S. Geological 

Survey on a one-year extension of the 

Flexible Flow Management Plan 

(FFMP); and a report by Dr. Jonathan H. 

Sharp of the University of Delaware on 

the Delaware Estuary Boat Run 

Monitoring Program. 

The subjects of the public hearing to 

be held during the 1:30 p.m. business 

meeting include the dockets listed 

below: 

1. U.S. Steel, D–1978–068–3. An 

application to renew DRBC approval for 

the discharge of up to 0.163 million 

gallons per day (mgd) of treated sanitary 

wastewater from the applicant’s 

wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) via 

Outfall No. 203 and 3.75 mgd of treated 

industrial wastewater and non-contact 

cooling water (NCCW) from the 

applicant’s industrial wastewater 

treatment plant (IWTP) via Outfall No. 

103 as well as to continue a TDS 

Determination that allows TDS effluent 

concentrations of up to 1,100 mg/l as a 

monthly average; 2,200 mg/l as a daily 

maximum; and 2,750 mg/l as an 

instantaneous maximum, via combined 

Outfall No. 003. Internal Outfalls Nos. 

103, 203, and 303 (stormwater only) will 

continue to discharge to the Delaware 

River via combined Outfall No. 003. The 

combined discharge from the 

applicant’s WWTP and IWTP is made 

via Outfall No. 003 to the tidal region 

of Water Quality Zone 2 of the Delaware 

River at River Mile 127.0. The WWTP 

and IWTP are located in Falls 

Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 

2. French Creek State Park, D–1980– 

007 CP–4. An application to renew 

DRBC approval to continue to withdraw 

up to 3.1 million gallons per month 

(mgm) of groundwater to supply the 

French Creek State Park from existing 

Wells in the Hammer Creek Formation. 

The project is located in the French 

Creek Watershed in Union Township, 

Berks County, Pennsylvania, within the 

Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground 

Water Protected Area. 

3. GenOn Energy, Inc., D–1987–26–3. 

An application to renew DRBC approval 

of discharges of treated industrial 

wastewater effluent from the Titus 

Generating Station (TGS) to the 

Schuylkill River as follows: the TGS 

IWTP via Outfall 002; coal-ash leachate 

from the Beagle Club Ash Disposal 

(BCAD) site via Outfall 004; and 

combined NCCW, intake screen 

backwash, and stormwater via Outfall 

001. The applicant has requested that 

the intermittent discharge from Outfall 

004 continue to have an effluent limit of 

3,500 mg/l of TDS as a monthly average. 

Effluent limits for the existing NCCW 

discharge (Outfall 001), IWTP (Outfall 

002) and BCAD site (Outfall 004) will 

continue to be based on average annual 

flows of 1.469 mgd, 2.149 mgd and 

1.007 mgd, respectively. The IWTP is 

hydraulically designed for 3.2 mgd. The 

TGS facilities will continue to discharge 

to the Schuylkill River. The project is 

located in Cumru Township, Berks 

County, Pennsylvania. 

4. Middletown Township, Middletown 

Country Club, D–1996–032 CP–2. An 

application for approval of an existing 

groundwater withdrawalproject to 

continue to supply up to 4.13 mgm of 

water to the applicant’s golf course from 

existing Well No. 1–G. The project is 

located in the Precambrian Felsic Gneiss 

in the Neshaminy Creek Watershed in 

Middletown Township, Bucks County, 

Pennsylvania within the Southeastern 

Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected 

Area. 

5. Concord Township Sewer 

Authority, D–1997–019 CP–3. An 

application for approval to continue 

discharging 1.8 mgd of treated effluent 

from the Concord Township WWTP. 

The WWTP will continue to discharge 

to the West Branch Chester Creek at 

River Mile 82.93—8.9—5.4 (Delaware 

River—Chester Creek—West Branch 

Chester Creek) in Concord Township, 

Delaware County, Pennsylvania. 

6. Bedminster Municipal Authority— 

Pennland Farms, D–2006–010 CP–2. An 

application to renew DRBC approval of 

the existing 0.06 mgd Pennland Farms 

WWTP. The WWTP discharges to an 

unnamed tributary of Deep Run Creek at 

River Mile 157.0—4.7—7.1—0.1 

(Delaware River—Tohickon Creek— 

Deep Run Creek—UNT). It is located in 

Bedminster Township, Bucks County, 

Pennsylvania within the drainage area 

of the section of the non-tidal Delaware 

River known as the Lower Delaware, 

which is classified as Special Protection 

Waters. 

7. Exelon Generation Company, LLC— 

Schuylkill Generating Station, D–1964– 

074 CP–2. An application for a decrease 

in the approved surface water 

withdrawal (SWWD) allocation 

associated with Intake No. 1 to 5,180 

mgm, of which 2,483 mgm would be for 

use at the Schuylkill Generating Station 

(SGS). Intake No. 1 supplies water to the 

Grays Ferry Cogen Facility (GFCF) and 

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facilities are located adjacent to one 

another on a Schuylkill River site 

formerly owned and operated by the 

Philadelphia Energy Company (PECO). 

The GFCF and Tri-Gen generating 

stations and subsidiary water 

allocations were approved on June 28, 

1995 by Dockets Nos. D–95–32 and D– 

95–10, respectively. DRBC staff 

evaluated the current and 10-year 

projected uses for all three facilities. 

The current average and maximum 

SWWDs are 2,982 mgm and 4,473 mgm, 

respectively. The 10-year combined 

maximum SWWD is estimated to be 

5,180 mgm, less than the 8,277 mgm 

formerly approved by DRBC in the 

facilities’ three separate dockets. The 

SGS is located in the City of 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

8. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and 

Company (DuPont), D–1988–085–3. An 

application to renew DRBC approval of 

discharges from the DuPont Chambers 

Works IWTP and to approve 

modifications to the IWTP, including 

the construction of a new 48’’ diameter 

IWTP outfall pipe with a multi-port 

diffuser and additional modifications to 

accommodate the new outfall. The 

proposed outfall will be located 

approximately 400 feet south of the 

existing outfall. By supplemental 

submission filed on July 22, 2010, the 

docket holder also seeks approval for an 

alternative mixing zone in accordance 

with section 4.20.5.A.1.f of the Water 

Quality Regulations. The IWTP outfall 

will continue to discharge treated 

effluent from the IWTP, non-contact 

cooling water, and stormwater to the 

Delaware River Estuary in Water Quality 

Zone 5. The project IWTP is located in 

Pennsville and Carneys Point 

Townships, Salem County, New Jersey. 

9. Sunnybrook Golf Club, D–1997– 

007–2. An application to approve an 

existing GWD project of up to 4.6 mgm 

for irrigation of the applicant’s golf 

course from existing Wells Nos. 1 and 

2. The previous Commission approval 

expired before a renewal application 

was received. The project is located in 

the Ledger Dolomite in the Wissahickon 

Creek Watershed in Whitemarsh 

Township, Montgomery County, 

Pennsylvania, within the Southeastern 

Pennsylvania Ground Water Protected 

Area. 

10. Portland Borough Authority, 

D–1997–029 CP–4. Application for 

approval of a GWD project to increase 

the existing allocation from all system 

wells from 5.7 million gallons per 30 

days (mg/30 days) to 12.4 mgm. The 

increased allocation is requested in 

order to meet projected increases in 

service area demand. Docket No. 

D–1997–029 CP–3 approved the current 

groundwater allocation of up to 4.32 

mgm of water from new Well No. 4 to 

serve the applicant’s public water 

supply system. The project well is 

completed in the Martinsburg 

Formation and is located in the 

Slateford Creek Watershed in Upper 

Mount Bethel Township, Northampton 

County, Pennsylvania. The site is 

located within the drainage area of the 

section of the non-tidal Delaware River 

known as the Lower Delaware, which is 

classified as Special Protection Waters. 

11. Johnson Matthey, Inc., D–1999– 

038–3. An application for approval of 

the existing IWTP. The IWTP will 

continue to treat 0.08 mgd of industrial 

wastewater generated by its 

pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. 

The previous DRBC approval—Docket 

No. D–1999–038–2 issued on May 10, 

2007—expired on April 30, 2010. The 

IWTP will continue to discharge to the 

Schuylkill River via the Matsunk Creek 

culvert. The project is located in Upper 

Merion Township, Montgomery County, 

Pennsylvania. 

12. Reading Area Water Authority 

(RAWA), D–2000–59 CP–2. An 

application for approval of the bulk sale 

interconnection and transfer up to 1.5 

mgd of potable water from the RAWA 

system to the Pennsylvania American 

Water Company (PAWC) Glen Alsace 

District water distribution system. Some 

of the water supply is also needed to 

serve PAWC’s customers in its 

Douglassville District via an existing 

interconnection. The application also 

includes the revision of the RAWA 

Operating Plan to reflect conservation 

release modifications from the Lake 

Ontelaunee Reservoir. The reservoir is 

located in Ontelaunee Township, Berks 

County, Pennsylvania and is situated on 

Maiden Creek in the Schuylkill River 

Watershed. 

13. Buckingham Township, D–2004– 

015 CP–2. An application for approval 

of the existing Buckingham Village 

WWTP and Furlong Sewage Treatment 

Lagoon System (Furlong WWTP). The 

previous DRBC approval—Docket No. 

D–2004–015 CP–1 issued October 27, 

2004—expired on October 27, 2009. The 

Buckingham Village WWTP will 

continue to discharge up to 0.236 mgd 

of treated sewage effluent to Mill Creek, 

a tributary of the Neshaminy Creek; 

however, from April 1 to November 30, 

the Buckingham Village WWTP will 

divert the treated sewage effluent for 

spray irrigation to spray fields 

associated with the Furlong WWTP. The 

Furlong WWTP is designed to treat a 

flow of up to 302,268 gpd and currently 

permitted by PADEP to treat up to 

257,000 gpd. The facility is located in 

Buckingham Township, Bucks County, 

Pennsylvania. 

14. Lafarge North America, D–1974– 

189–2. An application for approval of a 

GWD and SWWD project to supply up 

to 70.68 mgm of water to the applicant’s 

cement manufacturing plant from 

existing Wells Nos. 1 and 2 and an 

existing surface water intake on the 

Lehigh River. The withdrawals are used 

for processing and non-contact cooling. 

The project withdrawals were 

previously approved by Docket No. 

D–1975–115 issued for the cooling 

water discharge on August 27, 1975. 

Consistent with current DRBC practice, 

a separate withdrawal docket is now 

required. The project wells and quarry 

are completed in the Jacksonburg 

Formation. The project is located in the 

Coplay Creek and Lehigh River 

Watersheds in Whitehall Township, 

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania within the 

drainage area of the section of the nontidal Delaware River known as the 

Lower Delaware, which is classified as 

Special Protection Waters. 

15. City of Trenton, D–1998–009 

CP–2.An application for approval of an 

existing SWWD project to withdraw up 

to 1,350 mgm of surface water through 

one existing surface water intake. The 

application includes a request to 

retroactively approve the construction 

of an expansion and upgrade of the 

existing water filtration plant (WFP) 

from 45 mgd to 60 mgd. The allocation 

and expansion and upgrade of the WFP 

are required in order to meet projected 

increases in service area demand. The 

surface water intake withdraws water 

from the main stem Delaware River. The 

project is located in the Delaware River 

Watershed in the City of Trenton, 

Mercer County, New Jersey, within the 

drainage area of the section of the nontidal Delaware River known as the 

Lower Delaware, which is classified as 

Special Protection Waters. 

16. Butter Valley Golf Port, D–2010– 

013–1. An application for a new GWD 

and SWWD project to supply the 

applicant’s golf course irrigation system 

with up to 5.89 mgm of water as a 

combined total from all sources. Sources 

are proposed to include one existing 

surface water intake (Pond Intake No. 1), 

one new surface water intake (Pond 

Intake No. 2), and one new groundwater 

well (Well B). The project well is 

located in the Brunswick Group in the 

West Branch Perkiomen Creek 

Watershed in Upper Hanover Township, 

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 

within the Southeastern Pennsylvania 

Ground Water Protected Area. 

17. XTO Energy, Inc., D–2010–022–1. 

An application for approval of a SWWD 

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mgm of water for the applicant’s natural 

gas exploration and production 

activities in Broome and Delaware 

Counties in the State of New York. 

Surface water will be withdrawn at a 

site on Oquaga Creek within the Oquaga 

Creek Watershed in the Town of 

Sanford, Broome County, New York. 

Oquaga Creek drains to the West Branch 

Delaware River. The withdrawal site is 

located within the drainage area of the 

section of the non-tidal Delaware River 

known as the Upper Delaware, which is 

classified as Special Protection Waters. 

18. Exelon Generation Company, 

LLC—Schuylkill, D–2010–040 CP–1. An 

application for the approval of an 

existing combined discharge of up to 

231.84 mgd of NCCW and traveling 

screen backwash from the Schuylkill 

Generating Station (SGS) via Outfall No. 

001. Outfall No. 001 discharges to the 

tidal portion of the Schuylkill River at 

River Mile 92.47—5.6 (Delaware River— 

Schuylkill River) in Water Quality Zone 

4 in the City of Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania. 

19. South Jersey Port Corporation, 

D–2010–044 CP–1. An application for 

approval of the Paulsboro Marine 

Terminal dredging and wharf 

construction project. The proposed 

project includes: The construction of a 

deep water marine terminal consisting 

of a 150-foot wide by 2,850-foot long 

wharf providing for: Four berths for the 

loading and unloading of a variety of 

general bulk and break bulk cargo; 

dredging in the Delaware River of 

approximately 334,000 cubic yards; the 

construction of a public, bi-directional 

access roadway between Paradise Road 

in the Township of West Deptford and 

Universal Road in the Borough of 

Paulsboro; and the construction of a 

25-foot high, three span composite steel 

plate girder bridge across Mantua Creek 

just upstream of its confluence with the 

Delaware River. The proposed 

Paulsboro Marine Terminal site is 

located at the former 130-acre BP Oil 

Terminal site and adjacent 60-acre Essex 

Industrial Chemicals site in the Borough 

of Paulsboro, Gloucester County, New 

Jersey, along the Delaware River in 

Water Quality Zone 4 at approximately 

River Mile 90. 

In addition to the standard business 

meeting items, consisting of adoption of 

the Minutes of the Commission’s March 

2, 2011 business meeting, 

announcements of upcoming meetings 

and events, a report on hydrologic 

conditions, reports by the Executive 

Director and the Commission’s General 

Counsel, and public dialogue, the 

business meeting also will include 

public hearings on: (a) A resolution to 

increase the maximum daily surface 

water withdrawal from the Schuylkill 

River by Exelon’s Limerick Generating 

Station (LGS), without increasing LGS’s 

total monthly allocation; (b) a hearing at 

which the Lambertville Municipal 

Utilities Authority is requested to show 

cause why it should not be assessed a 

penalty in accordance with the 

Delaware River Basin Compact and 

DRBC regulations for failing to obtain 

DRBC review and approval prior to 

undertaking improvements to its 

wastewater treatment plant; (c) a 

resolution authorizing the Executive 

Director to enter into agreements for 

information technology upgrades to 

improve data management and retrieval; 

and (d) a resolution amending 

Resolution No. 2010–11 to increase the 

authorized amount of the Commission’s 

contract for management of comments 

received on a proposed rulemaking 

concerning natural gas development. 

The Commissioners also will consider a 

Resolution for the Minutes authorizing 

the Executive Director to award a 

contract for janitorial services; a 

resolution to adopt the Delaware River 

Basin Commission current expense and 

capital budgets for fiscal year 2012 (on 

which the Commission held a public 

hearing on March 2, 2011); and a 

resolution approving election of the 

Commission Chair, Vice Chair and 

Second Vice Chair for fiscal year 2012. 

Draft dockets scheduled for public 

hearing on May 11, 2011 can be 

accessed through the Notice of 

Commission Meeting and Public 

Hearing on the Commission’s Web site, 

drbc.net, ten days prior to the meeting 

date. Additional public records relating 

to the dockets may be examined at the 

Commission’s offices. Please contact 

William Muszynski at 609–883–9500, 

extension 221, with any docket-related 

questions. 

Note that conference items are subject 

to change and items scheduled for 

hearing are occasionally postponed to 

allow more time for the Commission to 

consider them. Please check the 

Commission’s Web site, drbc.net, closer 

to the meeting date for changes that may 

be made after the deadline for filing this 

notice. 

Individuals who wish to comment for 

the record on a hearing item or to 

address the Commissioners informally 

during the public dialogue portion of 

the meeting are asked to sign up in 

advance by contacting Ms. Paula 

Schmitt of the Commission staff, at 

paula.schmitt@drbc.state.nj.us or by 

phoning Ms. Schmitt at 609–883–9500 

ext. 224. 

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: April 19, 2011. 

Pamela M. Bush, 

Commission Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6360–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9297–9; EPA–HQ–OW–2010–0782] 

Draft National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) General 

Permit for Stormwater Discharges 

From Construction Activities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA’s Regional Offices are 

proposing for public comment the draft 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System general permit for 

stormwater discharges from large and 

small construction activities. This draft 

construction general permit includes 

new requirements that implement the 

technology-based Effluent Limitation 

Guidelines and New Source 

Performance Standards, which were 

issued by EPA for the construction and 

development industry on December 1, 

2009. The draft permit also includes 

new water quality-based requirements 

for construction sites discharging 

stormwater to waters requiring 

additional pollutant control. EPA 

proposes to issue this construction 

general permit for five (5) years, and to 

provide permit coverage to eligible 

existing and new construction projects 

in all areas of the country where EPA is 

the National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System permitting 

authority, including Idaho, 

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and 

New Mexico, Indian Country Lands, 

Puerto Rico, Washington, DC, and U.S. 

territories and protectorates. 

DATES: Comments on the draft general 

permit must be received on or before 

June 24, 2011. Comments on the 

preparation and issuance of the draft/ 

preliminary Environmental Assessment 

must be received by May 25, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2010–0782, by one of the following 

methods: 


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