2114 Nutrient Credit Trading Program; notice of certification requests  

  • Nutrient Credit Trading Program; Notice of Certification Requests

    [43 Pa.B. 6735]
    [Saturday, November 9, 2013]

     The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) provides notice of the following certification requests that have been submitted under the Nutrient Credit Trading Program (Trading Program). See 25 Pa. Code § 96.8 (relating to use of offsets and tradable credits from pollution reduction activities in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed), published at 40 Pa.B. 5790 (October 9, 2010). The information described in this notice relates to submitted certification requests received in September of 2013.

    Certification Requests

     The following requests are being reviewed by the Department.

    Applicant Pollutant Reduction Activity Description
    Gettysburg Municipal Authority (Adams County) (NPDES Permit No. PA-0021563) This certification request is for nutrient reduction credits to be generated from the pollutant reduction activity of the town's installed wastewater treatment process
    Danville Borough Wastewater Treatment Plant (Montour County) (NPDES Permit No. PA-0023531) This certification request is for nutrient reduction credits to be generated from the pollutant reduction activity of the town's installed wastewater treatment process.
    Altoona Water Authority—Easterly Wastewater Plant
    (Blair County)
    (NPDES Permit No. PA-0027014)
    This certification request is for nutrient reduction credits to be generated from the pollutant reduction activity of the town's installed wastewater treatment process.
    Wellsboro Municipal Authority (Tioga County) (NPDES Permit No. PA-0021687) This certification request is for nutrient reduction credits to be generated from the pollutant reduction activity of the town's installed wastewater treatment process.

    Written Comments

     Interested persons may submit written comments on these proposed pollutant reduction activities by November 25, 2013. The Department will accept comments submitted by e-mail, but comments submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. A return name and address must be included in each e-mail transmission. Written comments should be submitted to Jay Braund, Bureau of Point and Non-Point Source Management, Department of Environmental Protection, P. O. Box 8774, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8774, (717) 772-5636, jbraund@pa.gov.

     For further information about this certification request or the Trading Program contact Jay Braund, at the previously listed address or phone number or visit www.dep.state.pa.us (DEP Keywords: ''Nutrient Trading'').

    E. CHRISTOPHER ABRUZZO, 
    Acting Secretary

    [Pa.B. Doc. No. 13-2114. Filed for public inspection November 8, 2013, 9:00 a.m.]

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