Nutrient Credit Trading Program; Notice of Registration [41 Pa.B. 6933]
[Saturday, December 24, 2011]The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) provides notice of the following credit registration recorded under the Nutrient Credit Trading Program (Trading Program). The request for registration was 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 registration of credits on October 26, 2011. For background information related to these credits please see the Department's certification published at:
• 40 Pa.B. 5641 (October 2, 2010)—Team Ag, Inc. on behalf of Brubaker Farms.
The Department has registered the following credits.
Seller/Generator Location of Use Credits Registered Credit Generating
Activity / GeneratorCompliance Year Brubaker Farms Mount Joy Borough Authority,
Mount Joy, PA7117 Nitrogen Best management practices that include
the no-till planted corn and cover crop plantings.October 2010— September 2011 For further information about this registration or the Trading Program, contact Karen Price, Interstate Waters Office, Department of Environmental Protection, P. O. Box 2063, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2063, (717) 772-4785, kprice@pa.gov 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. 11-2193. Filed for public inspection December 23, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]
