Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 146 / Wednesday, July 30, 1997 / Notices 40805

Realignment Commission recommended

the closure of Savanna Army Depot

Activity (SVDA).

The FEIS evaluates the environmental

impacts of the disposal and subsequent

reuse of the 13,062 acres. Alternatives

examined in the FEIS include

encumbered disposal of the property,

unencumbered disposal of the property,

and no action. Encumbered disposal

refers to transfer or conveyance of

property having restrictions on

subsequent use as a result of any Armyimposed or legal restraint. Under the no

action alternative, the Army would not

dispose of property but would maintain

it in caretaker status for an indefinite

period.

While disposal of SVDA is the Army’s

primary action, the FEIS also analyzes

the potential environmental effects of

reuse as a secondary action by means of

evaluating intensity-based reuse

scenarios. The Army’s preferred

alternative for disposal of SVDA

property is encumbered disposal, with

encumbrances pertaining to unexploded

ordnance, wetlands, historical

resources, threatened and endangered

species, utilities dependencies,

easements, and remedial activities.

The Draft EIS was made available for

public review and comment. A notice of

availability (NOA) of the Draft EIS was

published in the Federal Register on

February 7, 1997 (62 FR 5825). The

Army conducted a public meeting on

March 6, 1997, to receive public input

on the Draft EIS. Display advertisements

informing the public were taken out in

three area newspapers.

DATES: The public review period for this

FEIS ends August 29, 1997.

COPIES: The FEIS is available for review

at the Savanna Public Library, Galena

Public Library, and Hanover Public

Library. A copy of the FEIS may be

obtained by writing to Mr. Glen Coffee

at the Corps of Engineers, Mobile

District (ATTN: CESAM–ED–E), 109 St.

Joseph Street, Mobile, Alabama 36628–

0001 or by facsimile at (334) 694–2727.

Dated: July 24, 1997.

Raymond J. Fatz,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

(Environment, Safety and Occupational

Health), OASA (I, L&E).

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BILLING CODE 3710–08–M

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army

Corps of Engineers

Draft Jennings Randolph Lake Master

Plan 1997 Update And Integrated

Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

DOD.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the 1995 Energy

and Water Development Appropriations

Act (Pub. L. 103–316, 108 Stat. 1701,

dated 26 August 1994), the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District,

has prepared the Draft Jennings

Randolph Lake Master Plan 1997

Update and Integrated Environmental

Impact Statement (EIA) to address

potential future development at, and to

update the NEPA documentation for the

operation of, Jennings Randolph Lake,

Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral

County, West Virginia. The public

review and comment period for the

Draft Master Plan and integrated EIS

will begin on July 31, 1997, and will

end on September 16, 1997. Jennings

Randolph Lake is located on the North

Branch of the Potomac River,

approximately 8 miles upstream of

Bloomington, Maryland, and

approximately 5 miles north of Elk

Garden, West Virginia. The dam is a

multi-purpose project authorized for

flood protection, water quality,

recreation, and water supply. The

original Master Plan for Jennings

Randolph Lake was completed in 1973.

The current update reevaluates the

assets, needs, and potential of the

project. The 1997 Master Plan Update

reflects changes that have occurred to

the site, in the region, in recreation

trends, and in Corps policy in the years

since the original Master Plan was

completed. The purpose of the update is

to provide a guide for the use and

development of natural and constructed

resources on Corps fee-owned lands at

Jennings Randolph Lake. The Master

Plan is the basic document guiding

Corps responsibilities pursuant to

Federal laws to preserve, conserve,

restore, maintain, manage, and develop

the project lands, waters, and associated

resources. The document also updates

the existing environmental

documentation for project operations.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Information or copies of the report may

be obtained by calling Ms. Lacy Evans

at (410) 962–6018. Requests for copies

of the Draft Report and Integrated EIS

may be mailed to District Engineer

ATTN: CENAB–OP–TR (Evans), U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore

District, P.O. Box 1715, Baltimore, MD

21203–1715, or by sending an e-mail

message to lacy.e.evans@ccmail

.nab.usace.army.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Master Plan has been prepared in

accordance with Engineering Regulation

(ER) 1130–2–550, dated November 1996.

This regulation prescribes ‘‘an overall

land and water management plan,

resource objectives, and associated

design and management concepts’’ that

provides the ‘‘best possible combination

of response to regional needs, resource

capabilities and suitabilities, and

expressed public interests and desires

consistent with authorized project

purpose.’’ Additional, as specified in

the regulation, the Master Plan

contributes to ‘‘providing qualities,

characteristics, and potentials of the

project;’’ and exhibits ‘‘consistency and

compatibility and with national

objectives and other state and regional

goals and programs.’’

The decision to implement the

proposed future development at

Jennings Randolph Lake is based on an

evaluation of the probable impact of the

proposed activities on the environment,

as well as public interest. Factors being

considered include regional economics,

general environmental concerns,

wetlands, cultural resources, flood

hazards, fish and wildlife resources,

flood plain management, land use,

recreation, water supply, water quality,

aesthetics, energy needs regional and

local infrastructure, hazardous and toxic

materials, public health and safety, food

and fiber production and the general

needs and welfare of the people.

Comments on the Draft Master Plan

and Integrated EIS document from the

public and from Federal, state, and local

agencies and officials will be considered

in the decision to implement the Master

Plan at the project, and will be

incorporated into the final

Environmental Impact Statement. A

public meeting will be held on

Thursday, August 14, 1997, from 7:00 to

9:00 p.m., at the Mineral County Health

Center, Harley O. Staggers Sr. Drive,

Keyser, West Virginia. The public

meeting will focus on discussing the

Draft Master Plan and Integrated EIS.

This Notice of Availability is being

sent to organizations and individuals

known to have an interest in the Master

Plan Update. Please bring this notice to

the attention of any other individuals

with an interest in this matter. Copies of

the Draft Jennings Randolph Lake

Master Plan 1997 Update and Integrated

EIS are available for review at the

following locations:
40806 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 146 / Wednesday, July 30, 1997 / Notices

Keyser/Mineral County Public Library,

105 North Main Street, Keyser, West

Virginia

Fort Ashby Public Branch Library, Fort

Ashby, West Virginia

Piedmont Library, Childs Avenue,

Piedmont, West Virginia

Allegheny Mountain Top Public

Library, Mount Storm, West Virginia

Cumberland Public Library, 31

Washington Street, Cumberland,

Maryland

Garrett County Public Library, 6 North

2nd Street, Oakland, Maryland

Westernport Public Library, 66 Main

Street, Westernport, Maryland

Frostburg Library, 90 East Main Street,

Frostburg, Maryland

La Vale Library, 815 National Highway,

La Vale, Maryland

Ronald A. Cucina,

Chief, Operations Division.

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BILLING CODE 3710–41–M

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,

August 6, 1997. 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

Harbor Room of the University of

Delaware’s Virden Center at 700

Pilottown Road, Lewes, Delaware.

An informal conference among the

Commissioners and staff will be held at

9:30 a.m. at the same location and will

include a U.S. Geological Survey

presentation on a regional pilot for

integrated environmental monitoring

and related research in the mid-Atlantic

region; a presentation on the Delaware

Estuary Program’s monitoring plan; a

discussion of proposed amendments to

the Commission’s Administrative

Manual—Rules of Practice and

Procedure and a Flow Management

Technical Advisory Committee status

report.

In addition to the subjects listed

below which are scheduled for public

hearing at the business meeting, the

Commission will also address the

following: Minutes of the June 25, 1997

business meeting; announcements;

General Counsel’s report; report on

Basin hydrologic conditions;

consideration of Jefferson Township

Sewer Authority Docket No. D–97–6 CP

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. Reed’s Sod Farms D–81–44 Renewal

3

An application for the renewal of a

ground water withdrawal project,

formerly approved under the name of

Stewart L. Reed, Jr., to supply up to 20

million gallons (mg)/30 days of water to

the applicant’s supplemental irrigation

system from Well No. 1. Commission

approval on December 11, 1991 was

limited to five years. The applicant

requests that the total withdrawal from

all wells remain limited to 20 mg/30

days. The project is located in

Washington Township, Mercer County,

New Jersey.

2. Schuylkill County Municipal

Authority D–90–49 CP (Revision 2)

A project to increase the applicant’s

existing exportation of surface water

from 0.6 million gallons per day (mgd)

to 1.0 mgd. The project will provide

0.225 mgd to a site spanning portions of

Foster, Butler and Cass Townships just

east of Interstate Route 81 in Schuylkill

County, Pennsylvania. The project

includes a new Pennsylvania

Department of Transportation safety/rest

area and the proposed Schuylkill

Highridge Business Park. The project

service area is situated in the Delaware

River Basin (DRB) near the ridge line

and exportation will be via discharge of

wastewater to the Schuylkill County

Municipal Authority wastewater

treatment plant located in Gordon,

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the

Susquehanna River Basin (SRB). All of

the exportation water sources are

provided by the applicant’s two existing

water supply storage reservoirs,

Kaufman Reservoir and Mount Laurel

Reservoir (formerly known as Mud Run

Reservoir). Kaufman Reservoir is located

on Kaufman Run, a tributary of Mud

Run, in New Castle Township; Mount

Laurel Reservoir is located nearby on

Mud Run, also in New Castle Township,

all in the DRB in Schuylkill County. No

increase in allocation from the two

reservoirs is required to provide the

increased exportation.

3. Evesham Township Municipal

Utilities Authority D–95–62 CP

A project to upgrade and expand the

applicant’s 1.5 mgd Woodstream sewage

treatment plant (STP) average monthly

design capacity to 1.7 mgd. The STP

will continue to serve a portion of

Evesham Township by providing

secondary biological treatment utilizing

the contact stabilization activatedsludge process and tertiary treatment

with rapid sand filtration. The project

will include improvement and

expansion of the existing facilities and

the addition of ammonia nitrogen

removal facilities. The STP is located

just north of Greentree Road on the east

bank of the South Branch Pennsauken

Creek, to which the STP will continue

to discharge, in Evesham Township,

Burlington County, New Jersey.

4. Richland Township Water Authority

D–96–44 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 and 2, from acquired Well No. 3

(formerly Judd Associates, Inc. Well No.

RC–1), from acquired Well Nos. 4 and

5 (formerly Walnut Bank Water

Company Well Nos. WB–2 and WB–3),

and to increase the existing total

withdrawal limit of 20.13 mg/30 days to

29.3 mg/30 days. The project is located

in Richland Township, Bucks County,

in the Southeastern Pennsylvania

Ground Water Protected Area.

5. Borough of Washington D–97–4 CP

A discharge project to upgrade and

expand the applicant’s existing 0.85

mgd STP to 1.5 mgd. The proposed STP

will provide advanced secondary

biological treatment with the

sequencing batch reactor activated

sludge treatment process. The STP will

continue to serve the Borough and

portions of Washington Township,

Warren County, New Jersey and, after

ultraviolet disinfection, discharge to

Pohatcong Creek via a new outfall

extension; the existing discharge to

Shabbecong Creek, approximately 350

feet upstream of the new discharge, will

be eliminated. The project STP is

situated just south of Route 57 near the

eastern boundary of the Borough of

Washington on the south bank of

Pohatcong Creek.

6. Merchantville-Pennsauken Water

Commission D–97–5 CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 335 mg/30 days of water

to the applicant’s distribution system

from 14 existing wells and new Well

No. Browning Road 3A, and to reduce

the existing withdrawal limit from all

wells to 335 mg/30 days. The project is

located in Merchantville Borough and

Pennsauken Township, Camden

County, New Jersey.