Nutrient Credit Trading Program; Notice of Registration [41 Pa.B. 6451]
[Saturday, December 3, 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 through November 8, 2011. For background information related to these credits, see the Department's certifications published at:
• 40 Pa.B. 6225 (October 23, 2010)—The Borough of Elizabethtown
• 38 Pa.B. 1887 (April 19, 2008)—Red Barn Trading Company
• 41 Pa.B. 661 (January 29, 2011)—Berwick Area Joint Authority
• 41 Pa.B. 3939 (July 16, 2011)—Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority
• 40 Pa.B. 3919 (July 10, 2010)—Northwestern Lan- caster County Authority
• 39 Pa.B. 6702 (November 21, 2009), 40 Pa.B. 5641 (October 2, 2010), 41 Pa.B. 3155 (June 18, 2011), 41 Pa.B. 661 and 41 Pa.B. 6046 (November 5, 2011)—County of Lycoming
• 40 Pa.B. 5021 (August 28, 2010)—ElectroCell Technologies Inc.
The Department has registered the following credits.
Seller/Generator Location of Use Credits Registered Credit Generating Activity / Generator Compliance Year The Borough of Elizabethtown City of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA 21,993 Nitrogen Elizabethtown Borough Wastewater Treatment Plant's installed treatment process. October 2010— September 2011 Red Barn Trading Company City of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA 12,460 Nitrogen and 2,180 Phosphorous Poultry manure export out of Chesapeake Bay Watershed. October 2010— September 2011 Mercuria Energy America, Inc. (Berwick Area Joint Authority) University Area Joint Sewer Authority, State College, PA 20,918 Nitrogen Berwick Area Joint Authority's installed treatment process. October 2010— September 2011 Mercuria Energy America, Inc. (Berwick Area Joint Authority and Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority) Municipal Authority of the Town of Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg, PA 34,271 Nitrogen and 2,520 Phosphorous Berwick Area Joint Authority's and Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's installed treatment process. October 2010— September 2011 Red Barn Trading Company Borough of Wellsboro, Wellsboro, PA 12,721 Nitrogen Poultry manure export out of Chesapeake Bay Watershed. October 2010— September 2011 Northwestern Lancaster County Authority City of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA 8,749 Nitrogen Northwestern Lancaster County Authority's installed treatment process. October 2010— September 2011 County of Lycoming PENNVEST 5,059 Nitrogen and 238 Phosphorous Installed best management practices by Client LyLLyT0001, LaCCoT0001, LaCCoT0002, MuCFrT0001, PiCJaT0001, MuCMoT0001, MuCJoT0001, AdCCIT0001 and the export of poultry manure out of Chesapeake Bay Watershed by Client WhCWaT0001. October 2010— September 2011 ElectroCell Technologies, Inc. PENNVEST 500 Nitrogen and 462 Phosphorous The operation of the Patz® OZyTM unit on a farm located in Lancaster County and the land applied nutrients. October 2010— September 2011 The Borough of Elizabethtown PENNVEST 15,290 Nitrogen Elizabethtown Borough Wastewater Treatment Plant's installed treatment process. October 2010— September 2011 Mercuria Energy America, Inc. (Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority) PENNVEST 10 Nitrogen Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's installed treatment process. October 2010— September 2011 PENNVEST City of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA 20,859 Nitrogen County of Lycoming's installed best management practices by Client LyLLyT0001, LaCCoT0001, LaCCoT0002, MuCFrT0001, PiCJaT0001, MuCMoT0001, MuCJoT0001, AdCCIT0001 and the export of poultry manure out of Chesapeake Bay Watershed by Client WhCWaT0001; Elizabethtown Borough Wastewater Treatment Plant's installed treatment process; ElectroCell Technologies Inc. operation of the Patz® OZyTM unit on a farm located in Lancaster County and the land applied nutrients; and, Mercuria Energy America, Inc. by Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's installed treatment process. October 2010— September 2011 PENNVEST Mountaintop Area Joint Sanitary Authority, Mountain Top, PA 700 Phosphorous County of Lycoming's installed best management practices by Client LyLLyT0001, LaCCoT0001, LaCCoT0002, MuCFrT0001, PiCJaT0001, MuCMoT0001, MuCJoT0001, AdCCIT0001 and the export of poultry manure out of Chesapeake Bay Watershed by Client WhCWaT0001; and, ElectroCell Technologies Inc. operation of the Patz® OZyTM unit on a farm located in Lancaster County and the land applied nutrients. October 2010— September 2011 For further information about this registration or the Trading Program, contact Ann Roda, Interstate Waters Office, Department of Environmental Protection, P. O. Box 2063, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2063, (717) 787-4726, aroda@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. 11-2061. Filed for public inspection December 2, 2011, 9:00 a.m.]
