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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 06-433

NOTICES

Availability of Technical Guidance

[36 Pa.B. 1294]

   Technical guidance documents are available on the Department of Environmental Protection's (Department) website at www.depweb.state.pa.us (DEP Keyword: Technical Guidance). The ''Final Documents'' heading is the link to a menu of the various Department bureaus where each bureau's final technical guidance documents are posted. The ''Draft Technical Guidance'' heading is the link to the Department's draft technical guidance documents.

   The Department will continue to revise its nonregulatory documents, as necessary, throughout 2006.

Ordering Paper Copies of Department Technical Guidance

   The Department encourages the use of the Internet to view and download technical guidance documents. When this option is not available, persons can order a paper copy of any of the Department's draft or final technical guidance documents by contacting the Department at (717) 783-8727.

   In addition, bound copies of some of the Department's documents are available as Department publications. Check with the appropriate bureau for more information about the availability of a particular document as a publication.

Changes to Technical Guidance Documents

   Following is the current list of recent changes. Persons who have questions or comments about a particular document should call the contact person whose name and phone number is listed with each document.

Draft Technical Guidance--Substantive Revision

   DEP ID: 254-2000-715. Title: Use of Waste from Land Clearing, Grubbing and Excavation (LCGE) and the Use of Concrete or Other Clean Fill Materials Containing Protruding Rebar or Other Metal as Clean Fill. Description: This policy identifies requirements necessary to prevent nuisances or hazards from the placement of decomposable waste from land clearing, grubbing and excavation as clean fill and the placement of concrete or other clean fill materials that contain protruding rebar or other metal. Substantive changes are proposed to the guidance, which was issued on March 20, 1990, under the title of ''Definition of Clean Fill.'' These changes incorporate new regulations concerning the use of waste from land clearing, grubbing and excavation as clean fill and requirements for the removal of protruding rebar from concrete. The guidance is issued under the authority of the Solid Waste Management Act (35 P. S. §§ 6018.101--6018.1003). Written Comments: The Department is seeking comments on the substantive revisions to draft technical guidance #254-2000-715. Interested persons may submit written comments on this draft technical guidance document by April 17, 2006. Comments submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. The Department will accept comments submitted by e-mail. A return name and address must be included in each e-mail transmission. Written comments should be submitted to Habib Sharifihossein, Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Waste Management, Division of Municipal and Residual Waste, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 14th Floor, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8472, hsharifiho@state.pa.us. Effective Date: Upon publication of notice as final in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Contact: Questions regarding the draft technical guidance document should be directed to Habib Sharifihossein, (717) 783-7500, hsharifiho@state.pa.us.

Draft Technical Guidance

   DEP ID: 563-2504-201. Title: Blanket Bonds. Description: This policy describes the requirements and procedures used to regulate surface coal mine sites that cover their bonding obligation through Blanket Bonding. Blanket Bonding allows a surface coal mine operator to post a single bond which would cover all reclamation obligations at all of the operator's surface coal mine sites. The policy is issued under the authority of the Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act (52 P. S. §§ 1396.1--1396.19a), The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. §§ 691.1--691.1001) and the Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act (52 P. S. §§ 30.51--30.66). Written Comments: The Department is seeking comments on draft technical guidance #563-2504-201. Interested persons may submit written comments on this draft technical guidance document by April 17, 2006. Comments submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. The Department will accept comments submitted by e-mail. A return name and address must be included in each e-mail transmission. Written comments should be submitted to William S. Allen, Jr., Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Mining and Reclamation, P. O. Box 8461, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 5th Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8461, wallen@state.pa.us. Effective Date: Upon publication of notice as final in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Contact: Questions regarding the draft technical guidance document should be directed to William S. Allen, Jr., (717) 787-5103, wallen@state.pa.us.

KATHLEEN A. MCGINTY,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 06-433. Filed for public inspection March 17, 2006, 9:00 a.m.]



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