48826 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 180 / Wednesday, September 17, 1997 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Availability of a Draft Plan for

U.S. Navy Submarine Solid Waste

Management for MARPOL Annex V

Special Areas, an Addendum to the

Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Ship

Solid Waste Management Plan for

MARPOL Annex V Special Areas of

November 1996

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy

(DON) announces the availability of a

document providing the proposed

management plan for solid waste aboard

Navy submarines. This document

discusses the results of studies designed

to determine the practicability of

various options for solid waste

management aboard submarines

pursuant to the International

Convention for the Prevention of

Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), Annex

V Special Areas, as required by the Act

to Prevent Pollution from Ships. As an

addendum report to the U.S. Navy’s

November 1996 Report to Congress,

‘‘U.S. Navy Ship Solid Waste

Management Plan for MARPOL Annex

V Special Areas,’’ this document

provides additional information on

submarines that was not previously

available.

Copies of the U.S. Navy Submarine

Solid Waste Management Plan for

MARPOL Annex V Special Areas may

be obtained from, and written comments

on the Plan may be submitted to, Mr.

Cartwright at the address provided

below.

DATES: Written comments on the Plan

will be considered if received by

October 17, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

David Cartwright NAVSEA 92TE,

Assistant for Submarine Environmental

and Occupational Safety Affairs,

Department of the Navy, Naval Sea

Systems Command, 2531 Jefferson Davis

Highway, Arlington, VA 22242–5160

[(703) 602–8096 (Ext. 475)].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.

Navy Submarine Solid Waste

Management Plan is being prepared

pursuant to Section 1003(c)(2) of the

National Defense Authorization Act for

Fiscal Year 1994, Public Law 103–160,

codified at 33 U.S.C. 1902(2)–(4). That

statute required the Secretary of the

Navy to submit, by 30 November 1996,

a plan for compliance by all ships

owned or operated by the DON with the

requirements of regulation 5 of Annex V

of MARPOL. The Navy’s 1996 report

stated that an addendum would be

prepared for submaine solid waste

management. MARPOL establishes rules

pertaining to the discharge of shipboard

solid waste from vessels operating in

designated ‘‘special areas’’ of the world,

of which three are currently in effect:

the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the

Antarctic Region.

The development of the U.S. Navy

Submarine Solid Waste Management

Plan has been coordinated with the

public through meetings held in

September, 1994, and March, 1997; with

the Department of State, Department of

Commerce, Environmental Protection

Agency, U.S. Coast Guard, and other

Federal agencies. A Notice of a Finding

of No Significant Impact, resulting from

an Environmental Assessment on the

Plan, appears in this Federal Register.

The Submarine Solid Waste

Management Plan addresses six solid

waste management options. The

proposed action is: the discharge of nonplastic, non-hazardous, negatively

buoyant, compacted solid waste, other

than grindable food wastes in special

areas beyond 25 nautical miles (nm)

from land, or between 12nm and 25nm

only when the depth of water is greater

than 6,000 feet; use of source reduction,

non-plastic ‘‘wet bags,’’ and compaction

technology, which will enable

submarines to retain all plastics for

shore disposal by December 31, 2008;

and processing food wastes through a

garbage grinder and discharging the

wastes greater than 3nm from land.

Implementation of the proposed action

satisfies MARPOL’s ‘‘reasonable and

practicable’’ standard for warships, but

will require an amendment to the Act to

Prevent Pollution from Ships to allow

the discharge of compacted, negatively

buoyant, non-plastic solid wastes by

submarines in Special Areas.

Dated: September 12, 1997.

Darse E. Crandall,

LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison

Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–24718 Filed 9–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P

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,

September 24, 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 Goddard Conference Room

of the Commission’s offices at 25 State

Police Drive, West Trenton, New Jersey.

An informal conference among the

Commissioners and staff will be held at

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

open with a presentation and discussion

of the results of the Commission’s

recently completed Delaware River

Basin Commission Survey to Assess its

Management of the Basin’s Water

Resources. The survey results are also

available by calling (609) 883–9500 ext.

215 and leaving your name and address,

or may be downloaded from the

Commission’s web site at: http://

www.state.nj.us/drbc/drbc.htm. The

conference will also include a

presentation on the New Jersey State

Development and Redevelopment Plan’s

cross-acceptance process and a

discussion of depletive water use above

Commission reservoirs.

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. Town of Middletown-Arkville Water

District D–86–77 CP RENEWAL 2. An

application for the renewal of a ground

water withdrawal project to supply up

to 4.5 million gallons (mg)/30 days of

water to the applicant’s distribution

system from Well Nos. 3 and 4.

Commission approval on August 12,

1992 was limited to five years. The

applicant requests that the total

withdrawal from all wells remain

limited to 4.5 mg/30 days. The project

is located in the Town of Middletown,

Delaware County, New York.

2. Playtex Family Products

Corporation D–90–106 RENEWAL. An

application for the renewal of a ground

water withdrawal project to supply up

to12 mg/30 days of water to the

applicant’s product processing facility

from Well Nos. 1–NE and 2–SE.

Commission approval on May 20, 1992

was limited to five years. The applicant

requests that the total withdrawal from

all wells remain limited to 12 mg/30

days. The project is located in the City

of Dover, Kent County, Delaware.

3. Montague Water Company D–91–

75 CP RENEWAL. An application for the

renewal of a ground water withdrawal

project to supply up to 8.0 mg/30 days

of water to the applicant’s distribution

system from Well Nos. 1 through 5.

Commission approval on March 25,

1992 was limited to five years. The

applicant requests that the total

withdrawal from all wells remain

limited to 8.0 mg/30 days. The project

is located in Montague Township,

Sussex County, New Jersey.

4. Hewlett-Packard Company D–97–

15 (D). An application for the discharge

of wastewater resulting from a ground
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water remediation project. An average

0.144 million gallons per day (mgd) of

contaminated ground water will be

treated and discharged to an unnamed

tributary of Egypt Run, a tributary of

East Branch White Clay Creek, in New

Garden Township, Chester County,

Pennsylvania. Five recovery wells will

collect ground water for treatment for

removal of volatile organic compounds

via an air stripper and filtration units.

The project will serve only the site of

the applicant’s former electronic

instrumentation operations located at

Route 41 and Starr Road in New Garden

Township.

5. Hewlett-Packard Company D–97–

15 (G). An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

withdraw up to 2.27 mg/30 days of

water as part of the applicant’s ground

water remediation system from new

Well Nos. MW–32, MW–33, MW–34,

MW–37, RW–4, RW–5, P–2, P–3 and P–

4; and to limit the withdrawal from all

remediation wells to 4.43 mg/30 days.

The project is located in New Garden

Township, Chester County,

Pennsylvania.

6. The Upper Hanover Authority D–

97–17 CP. An application for approval

of a ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 4.5 mg/30 days of water to

the applicant’s distribution system from

new Well No. RH–3, and to retain the

existing withdrawal limit from all wells

of 22.4 mg/30 days. The project is

located in Upper Hanover Township,

Montgomery County and Hereford

Township, Berks County, in the

Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground

Water Protected Area.

7. Township of Worcester D–97–22

CP. An application to expand the

applicant’s Berwick Place sewage

treatment plant (STP) average monthly

capacity from 0.06 mgd to 0.15 mgd.

The STP will continue to provide

tertiary treatment to serve residential

development in a portion of Worcester

Township and discharge via the existing

outfall to an unnamed tributary of

Skippack Creek. The STP is located just

south of Germantown Pike and east of

East Mount Kirk Avenue in Worcester

Township, Montgomery County,

Pennsylvania.

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 (609)

883–9500 ext. 221 concerning docketrelated questions. Persons wishing to

testify at this hearing are requested to

register with the Secretary at (609) 883–

9500 ext. 203 prior to the hearing.

Dated: September 9, 1997.

Anne M. Zamonski,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–24655 Filed 9–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6360–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP97–725–000]

CNG Transmission Corporation; Notice

of Application

September 11, 1997.

Take notice that on September 5,

1997, CNG Transmission Corporation

(CNG), 445 West Main Street,

Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, filed

in Docket No. CP–97–725–000, an

application pursuant to Section 7(b) of

the Natural Gas Act for permission and

approval to abandon its case-specific

authorization to provide storage services

under CNG’ Rate Schedule GSS–II to

Colonial Gas Company (Colonial),

effective as of September 1, 1997, all as

more fully set forth in the application

on file with the Commission and open

to public inspection.

CNG asserts that it has replaced the

services for which CNG seeks

abandonment authorization with

services to Colonial of like demand and

capacity, under CNG’s blanket

authorization provided by Part 284 of

the Commission’s Regulations.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make protest with reference to said

application should on or before October

2, 1997, file with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

D.C. 20426, a motion to intervene or a

protest in accordance with the

requirements of the Commission’s Rules

of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations

under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR

157.10). All protests filed with the

Commission will be considered by it in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken but will not serve to make the

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

to a proceeding or to participate as a

party in any hearing therein must file a

motion to intervene in accordance with

the Commission’s Rules.

Take further notice that, pursuant to

the authority contained in and subject to

the jurisdiction conferred upon the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas

Act and the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure, a hearing will

be held without further notice before the

Commission or its designee on this

application if no motion to intervene is

filed within the time required herein, if

the Commission on its own review of

the matter finds that permission and

approval for the proposed abandonment

are required by the public convenience

and necessity. If a motion for leave to

intervene is timely filed, or if the

Commission on its own motion believes

that a formal hearing is required, further

notice of such hearing will be duly

given.

Under the procedure provided for,

unless otherwise advised, it will be

unnecessary for CNG to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–24614 Filed 9–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP 92–154–001]

Colorado Interstate Gas Company;

Notice of Compliance Filing

September 11, 1997.

Take notice that on September 8,

1997, Colorado Interstate Gas Company

(CIG), tendered for filing as part of its

FERC Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume

No. 1, Third Revised Sheet No. 369 to

be effective October 15, 1997.

CIG states that Sheet No. 369 was a

tariff sheet authorized by Commission

Order issued May 14, 1992 in Docket

No. RP92–154–000. The tariff sheet

identified customers’ buyout-buydown

obligation pursuant to Order No. 528.

CIG states the filing is being made to

‘‘clean up’’ Sheet No. 369. One Buyer

had elected to amortize its payment of

its obligation over a 60-month period.

The 60-month payment period has

terminated and the Buyer has paid its

obligation; therefore, the filing reflects

all Buyers have now paid their

obligation pursuant to the authorization

in Docket No. RP92–154–000.

CIG states that copies of the filing

have been sent to all parties in Docket

No. RP92–154–000.

Any person desiring to protest said

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC

20426 in accordance with the § 385.211

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure. All such protests must

be filed in accordance with § 154.210 of

the Commission’s Regulations. All

protests filed with the Commission will

be considered by it in determining the