10896 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 48 / Friday, March 13, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Availability of Non-Exclusive, 

Exclusive License or Partially 

Exclusive Licensing of U.S. Patent 

Concerning Polymerization of 

Aromatic Monomers Using Derivatives 

of Hematin 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 

Part 404.6, announcement is made of 

the availability for licensing of U.S. 

Patent No. U.S. 7,479,329 entitled 

‘‘Polymerization of Aromatic Monomers 

Using Derivatives of Hematin’’ issued 

January 20, 2009. This patent has been 

assigned to the United States 

Government as represented by the 

Secretary of the Army. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jeffrey DiTullio at U.S. Army Soldier 

Systems Center, Kansas Street, Natick, 

MA 01760, Phone; (508) 233–4184 or Email: Jeffrey.Ditullio@natick.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any 

licenses granted shall comply with 35 

U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR Part 404. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–5461 Filed 3–12–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

The Release of the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (DEIS) and the 

Announcement of a Public Hearing for 

the Proposed Construction of the 

Western Wake Regional Wastewater 

Management Facilities, Which Includes 

Regional Wastewater Pumping, 

Conveyance, Treatment, and 

Discharge Facilities To Serve the 

Towns of Apex, Cary, Holly Springs 

and Morrisville, as Well as the Wake 

County Portion of Research Triangle 

Park (Service Area), NC 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (COE), Wilmington District, 

Regulatory Division has been reviewing 

the request for Department of the Army 

authorization, pursuant to Section 404 

of the Clean Water Act from the Town 

of Cary, acting as the lead for the 

Western Wake Regional Wastewater 

Management Facilities Project Partners 

(Western Wake Partners), to construct 

Regional Wastewater Management 

Facility. The proposed project consists 

of regional wastewater pumping, 

conveyance, treatment, and discharge 

facilities to serve the Towns of Apex, 

Cary, Holly Springs and Morrisville, as 

well as the Wake County portion of 

Research Triangle Park (RTP South), 

NC. 

The project is being proposed by the 

Western Wake Partners to provide 

wastewater service for planned growth 

and development in the project service 

area and to comply with two regulatory 

mandates. One regulatory mandate has 

been issued by the North Carolina 

Environmental Management 

Commission (EMC), and the second 

regulatory mandate has been issued by 

the North Carolina Department of 

Environment and Natural Resources (NC 

DENR). 

DATES: The Public Hearing will be held 

at the Town of Apex Town Hall, 73 

Hunter Street, Apex North Carolina, on 

April 14, 2009 at 6 p.m. Written 

comments on the Draft EIS will be 

received until April 27, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of comments and 

questions regarding the Draft EIS may be 

addressed to: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Wilmington District, 

Regulatory Division. ATTN: File 

Number 2005–20159, 69 Darlington 

Avenue, Wilmington, NC 28403. Copies 

of the Draft EIS can be reviewed on the 

Wilmington District Regulatory 

homepage at http:// 

www.saw.usace.army.mil/wetlands/ 

projects/ww-wtp, or contact Ms. Gwen 

Robinson, at (910) 251–4494, to receive 

written or CD copies of the Draft EIS. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the proposed action 

and DEIS can be directed to Mr. Henry 

Wicker, Project Manager, Regulatory 

Division, telephone: (910) 251–4930. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Project Description. The proposed 

project consists of regional wastewater 

pumping, conveyance, treatment, and 

discharge facilities to serve the Towns 

of Apex, Cary, Holly Springs and 

Morrisville, as well as RTP South 

(service area), NC. The purpose of the 

project is to provide wastewater service 

for planned growth and development in 

the project service area and to comply 

with two regulatory mandates. One 

regulatory mandate has been issued by 

the North Carolina Environmental 

Management Commission (EMC), and 

the second regulatory mandate has been 

issued by the North Carolina 

Department of Environment and Natural 

Resources (NC DENR). 

Regulatory Mandate No. 1—Interbasin 

Transfer: The Towns of Apex, Cary, and 

Morrisville, as well as Research Triangle 

Park (RTP) South, obtain their drinking 

water from Jordan Lake in the Cape Fear 

River Basin and discharge treated 

effluent to locations in the Neuse River 

Basin. Obtaining water from one basin 

and discharging it to another river basin 

is referred to as an interbasin transfer 

(IBT), which requires a permit from the 

EMC. In July 2001, the EMC granted the 

Towns of Apex, Cary, and Morrisville, 

as well as Wake County (on behalf of 

RTP South), an IBT certificate to 

withdraw water from the Cape Fear 

River Basin and discharge the water to 

the Neuse River Basin. However, as a 

condition of approval, the IBT 

certificate issued by the EMC requires 

the local governments to return 

reclaimed water to the Cape Fear River 

Basin after 2010. As a result, the local 

governments have initiated activities to 

plan, permit, design, and construct 

wastewater transmission, treatment, and 

disposal facilities in order to comply 

with the terms and conditions of the IBT 

certificate issued by the EMC. The 

facilities that will be described and 

evaluated in the environmental impact 

statement (DEIS) are needed to comply 

with the IBT certificate terms and 

conditions. 

Regulatory Mandate No. 2—Nutrient 

Enrichment for Harris Lake: The Town 

of Holly Springs currently has a 

wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) 

that discharges to Utley Creek, which is 

a tributary to Harris Lake in the Cape 

Fear River Basin. Representatives from 

NCDENR have directed the Town of 

Holly Springs to remove the Town’s 

wastewater discharge from Utley Creek 

due to nutrient enrichment issues in 

Utley Creek and downstream in Harris 

Lake. In addition, NCDENR has 

encouraged Holly Springs to participate 

with Apex, Cary and Morrisville on a 

regional wastewater management 

program that will allow Holly Springs to 

remove the Town’s discharge from Utley 

Creek after 2010. Thus, Holly Springs is 

participating with Apex, Cary and 

Morrisville in the planning, permitting, 

design and construction of regional 

effluent disposal facilities in order to 

comply with the mandate issued by 

NCDENR to remove its discharge from 

Utley Creek. The regional effluent 

disposal facilities that will be described 

and evaluated in the DEIS are needed to 

comply with the NCDENR mandate. 

The proposed project was reviewed to 

address a number of issues which 

includes an alternatives analysis, direct 

environmental impacts, secondary and 

cumulative environmental impacts, 

environmental justice concerns, 


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