NOTICES
Nutrient Credit Trading Program; Notice of Certification Requests
[43 Pa.B. 4663]
[Saturday, August 10, 2013]The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) provides notice of the following certification requests that have been submitted under the Nutrient Credit Trading Program (Trading Program). See 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).
With regard to the first applicant listed as follows, namely the Borough of Chambersburg, the Department on July 7, 2012, approved a request by the Borough of Chambersburg for inter-basin trading. The approval was for a pilot program to use nitrogen and phosphorus credits generated in the Susquehanna River Basin to meet NPDES nitrogen and phosphorous limits at the Borough of Chambersburg's waste water treatment facility located in the Potomac River Basin. The Borough of Chambersburg has submitted the certification requests listed as follows under the pilot program.
The information described in this notice relates to submitted certification requests received in summer of 2013.
Certification Requests
The following requests are being reviewed by the Department:
Applicant Pollutant Reduction Activity Description The Borough of Chambersburg on behalf of agricultural operations identified
as follows in Cumberland County and Franklin CountyThis certification is for the agricultural best management practices of cover crops and continuous no-till. Logan Township Greenwood Wastewater Treatment Plant. (Blair County) (NPDES Permit No. PA-0032557) This certification request is for nutrient reduction credits to be generated from the pollutant reduction activity of the installed wastewater treatment process The Borough of Chambersburg was submitted on behalf of the following agricultural operations:
Farm County Watershed Carl Pugh and Son, LLC Franklin Potomac Falling Springs Farms, LLC Franklin Potomac Frey's Farm Dairy, LLC Franklin Potomac Hissong Farmstead, Inc Franklin Potomac Jo-Bri-Den Farm Franklin Susquehanna Martin Farm Franklin Potomac Marshall Farm Franklin Potomac MercerVu Farms, Inc. Franklin Potomac Rotz Farm Franklin Potomac & Susquehanna State Ridge Dairy Farm, Inc. Franklin Potomac Witter Farm Franklin Susquehanna Brandt Farm Cumberland Susquehanna Brymesser Farms LLC Cumberland Susquehanna Creekside Dairy Cumberland Susquehanna Hockenberry Farm Cumberland Susquehanna Jet Rae Farm Cumberland Susquehanna Foster Farm Cumberland Susquehanna Mt. Rock Jerseys Cumberland Susquehanna Mt. View Nursery Cumberland Susquehanna Nealand Farm Cumberland Susquehanna Sunday Farm Cumberland Susquehanna Weary's Dairy Cumberland Susquehanna Webber Farm Cumberland Susquehanna Written Comments
Interested persons may submit written comments on this proposed pollutant reduction activity by September 9, 2013. The Department will accept comments submitted by e-mail, but comments submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. A return name and address must be included in each e-mail transmission. Written comments should be submitted to Jay Braund, Bureau of Point and Non-Point Source Management, Department of Environmental Protection, P. O. Box 8774, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8774, (717) 772-5636, jbraund@pa.gov.
For further information about this certification request or the Nutrient Credit Trading Program contact Jay Braund, at the previously listed address or phone number or visit the Department's web site at www.dep.state.pa.us (DEP Keywords: ''Nutrient Trading'').
E. CHRISTOPHER ABRUZZO,
Acting Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 13-1492. Filed for public inspection August 9, 2013, 9:00 a.m.]
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