Pennsylvania Code
Pennsylvania Code & Bulletin
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

• No statutes or acts will be found at this website.

The Pennsylvania Bulletin website includes the following: Rulemakings by State agencies; Proposed Rulemakings by State agencies; State agency notices; the Governor’s Proclamations and Executive Orders; Actions by the General Assembly; and Statewide and local court rules.

PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 98-1322

NOTICES

Draft Unified Watershed Assessment Process; Notice of Availability

[28 Pa.B. 3996]

   The Department of Environmental Protection (Department), Bureau of Watershed Conservation, is proposing to prepare a unified watershed assessment and establish restoration priorities.

   On July 30, 1998, the Department and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service submitted an initial draft assessment to the Environmental Protection Agency. A final submission is due October 1, 1998. Draft grant funding guidance for the Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program proposes to allocate significant additional funds for fiscal year 1999 to those states that have completed the unified assessment process and identified priority watersheds for restoration.

   To identify restoration priorities, the Commonwealth has begun collecting information from various agencies and groups on the status of watershed initiatives and other efforts underway in their watersheds. The development of the Commonwealth's final restoration priorities will consider and coordinate with other priority-setting mechanisms, including but not limited to: USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program; abandoned mine land programs; Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program; DCNR Rivers Conservation Program; various watershed initiatives and other information.

   The Department invites comments on the draft assessment, particularly on the assessment process and specific criteria to use to set priorities. Comments on watershed scale, feasibility of restoration and identification of priorities for restoration, protection, monitoring and assessment are also needed.

   The draft assessment is available on the Department's web site at http://www.dep.state.pa.us (choose Subjects/Water Management/Bureau of Watershed Conservation/Nonpoint Source Management). To obtain a hard copy, call the Division of Watershed Support at (717) 787-5259. Persons interested in submitting written comments should send the comments to Michael D. Sherman, Chief, Division of Watershed Support, P. O. Box 8555, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8555 by close of business on September 15, 1998. Comments may also be submitted electronically to Michael Sherman in care of Glenda Ferree at ferree.glenda@al.dep.state.pa.us.

JAMES M. SEIF,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 98-1322. Filed for public inspection August 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.]


No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit.

This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Bulletin full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.