2151 Nutrient Credit Trading Program; notice of registration?

Nutrient Credit Trading Program; Notice of Registration

[41 Pa.B. 6840]
[Saturday, December 17, 2011]

 The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) provides notice of the following credit registrations recorded under the Nutrient Credit Trading Program (Trading Program). The request for registrations were submitted under 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).

 Nutrient trading is a market-based program that provides incentives for entities to create nutrient reduction credits by going beyond statutory, regulatory or voluntary obligations and goals by removing nutrients from a watershed. The credits can be traded to help others more cost-effectively meet their obligations or goals. The primary purpose of the Trading Program is to provide for more efficient ways for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permittees to meet their effluent limits for nutrients and sediment. Currently, the focus of the program is on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

 This notice relates to the registrations of credits through November 30, 2011. For background information related to these credits, see the Department's certifications published at:

 • 40 Pa.B. 5021 (August 28, 2010)—ElectroCell Technologies, Inc.

 • 41 Pa.B. 3939 (July 16, 2011)—Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority

 The Department has registered the following credits.

Seller/Generator	Location of Use	Credits Registered	Credit Generating Activity / Generator	Compliance Year
ElectroCell Technologies, Inc.	Elkland Borough, Elkland, PA	1,722 Nitrogen	The operation of the Patz® OZyTM unit on a farm located in Lancaster County and the land applied nutrients.	October 2010— September 2011
Mercuria Energy America, Inc. (Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority)	Municipal Authority of the Town of Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg, PA	13 Phosphorus	Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's installed treatment process.	October 2010— September 2011
Mercuria Energy America, Inc. (Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority)	Borough of Highspire, Highspire, PA	558 Phosphorus	Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's installed treatment process.	October 2010— September 2011

 For further information about these registrations or the Trading Program, contact Ann Roda, Interstate Waters Office, Department of Environmental Protection, P. O. Box 2063, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2063, [phone], [e-mail] or visit the Department's web site at www.depweb.state.pa.us (DEP Keywords: ''Nutrient Trading'').

MICHAEL L. KRANCER, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 11-2151. Filed for public inspection December 16, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]