2211 Access to odor management plans for concentrated animal operations and concentrated animal feeding operations and volunteers complying with the Commonwealth's Facility Odor Management Program

  • STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION

    Access to Odor Management Plans for Concentrated Animal Operations and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Volunteers Complying with the Commonwealth's Facility Odor Management Program

    [41 Pa.B. 6952]
    [Saturday, December 24, 2011]

     This notice is provided to direct the public to the State Conservation Commission's (Commission) Facility Odor Management Program (Program) webpage, or alternatively to the Commission's office to obtain information relating to Odor Management Plans (OMP) submitted for the Commission action under 3 Pa.C.S. §§ 501—522 (relating to nutrient management and odor management).

     The Commission's Program webpage, accessed through the Commission's general web site at www.pda.state. pa.us/scc (click on ''Programs,'' then ''Odor Management Program'' then select ''Odor Management Plans currently under review''), provides the public with the name, address, animal equivalent units, animal type, Odor Site Index score and submission type for the various OMPs under review by the Commission. This listing of plans under review can also be accessed by contacting the Commission's Program office in Tunkhannock at (570) 836-2181. The Commission will not take an action on a submitted OMP until it has been noticed on this list for a minimum of 21 days.

     All the Commission actions on submitted OMPs will be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

     Persons wishing to view or obtain a copy of submitted OMPs are directed to submit a formal Right-to-Know request to the Department of Agriculture to arrange access to the plans currently under review.

     Persons wishing to comment on an OMP under review by the Commission are invited to submit a written statement outlining their comments on the plan to the Commission's Program within 21 days from the plan notice date provided on the Commission's listing of plans under review. Persons with a question relating to the submission of comments on a plan under review may contact the Commission's Program office by phone to discuss the process for the submission of comments. Comments should include the name, address and telephone number of the writer, and a concise statement to inform the Commission of the exact basis of the comments and the relevant facts upon which they are based.

     Persons with a disability who wish to provide comments and require an auxiliary aid, service or other accommodation to participate in the proceedings should contact the specified program. TDD users should contact the Department through the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984.

     The address for the Commission's Program office is the Pennsylvania Agriculture Building, Route 92 South, P. O. Box C, Tunkhannock, PA 18657-0318. The phone number for the Commission's Program Coordinator, Karl Dymond is (570) 836-2181.

    GEORGE D. GREIG, 
    Chairperson

    [Pa.B. Doc. No. 11-2211. Filed for public inspection December 23, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]

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