Lower Crooked Creek Watershed Conservation Plan [36 Pa.B. 729] The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (Department), Bureau of Recreation and Conservation has approved the Lower Crooked Creek Watershed Conservation Plan (Plan) and is placing the Lower Crooked Creek Watershed and an adjacent watershed (Tub Mill Run Watershed) covered in the Plan in Indiana and Armstrong Counties on the Pennsylvania Rivers Conservation Registry (Registry).
The Crooked Creek Watershed Association submitted the Plan and other required information to gain Registry status.
After review of the Plan and other information, the Department has determined that the Pennsylvania Rivers Conservation Program (Program) requirements have been satisfied and places the following on the Registry:
1. The watershed area of Crooked Creek (Armstrong County) from its confluence with the Plum Creek Watershed in Plum Creek Township, Armstrong County to its confluence with the Allegheny River in Armstrong County--101.8 square miles.
2. All tributary streams within the Lower Crooked Watershed Area (Armstrong and Indiana Counties).
3. The watershed area of Tub Mill Run (Armstrong County) from the headwaters to its confluence with the Allegheny River--1.79 square miles.
This action becomes effective February 11, 2006. Projects identified in the Plan become eligible for implementation, development or acquisition grant funding through the Program.
A copy of the Final Plan is available for review at the Crooked Creek Watershed Association, P. O. Box 446, Ford City, PA 16626, (724) 783-6692 and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, 6th Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17101, (717) 787-7672.
Maps and supporting data are available by contacting the Crooked Creek Watershed Association.
MICHAEL F. DIBERARDINIS,
Secretary[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-228. Filed for public inspection February 10, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]
