[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 10, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21557-21558]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-8496]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9657-2]
Clean Water Act: Final Agency Action on 32 Total Maximum Daily
Loads (TMDLs) in Louisiana
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces final agency action on 32 TMDLs prepared
by EPA Region 6 for waters listed in Louisiana's, Lake Pontchartrain
Basin, under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Documents
from the administrative record file for the 32 TMDLs, including TMDL
calculations and responses to comments, may be viewed at www.epa.gov/region6/water/npdes/tmdl/index.htm. The administrative record file may
be examined by calling or writing Ms. Diane Smith at the address below.
Please contact Ms. Smith to schedule an inspection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Smith, Environmental Protection
Specialist, Water Quality Protection Division, U.S. EPA Region 6, 1445
Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202-2733, (214) 665-2145.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1996, two Louisiana environmental groups,
the Sierra Club and Louisiana Environmental Action Network
(plaintiffs), filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the EPA, styled
Sierra Club, et al. v. Clifford et al., No. 96-0527, (E.D. La.). Among
other claims, plaintiffs alleged that EPA failed to establish Louisiana
TMDLs in a timely manner. EPA established 32 of these TMDLs pursuant to
a consent decree entered in this lawsuit.
EPA Takes Final Agency Action on 32 TMDLs
By this notice EPA is taking final agency action on the following
32 TMDLs on waters located within the Louisiana Lake Pontchartrain
Basin:
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Subsegment Waterbody name Pollutant
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040102.................................. Comite River--Wilson-Clinton Hwy to Fecal Coliform
entrance of White Bayou (East Baton Rouge
Parish) (Scenic).
040103.................................. Comite River--Entrance of White Bayou to Fecal Coliform.
Amite River.
040201.................................. Bayou Manchac--Headwaters to Amite River.. Fecal Coliform.
040302.................................. Amite River--LA Hwy 37 to Amite River Fecal Coliform.
Diversion Canal.
040304.................................. Grays Creek--Headwaters to River Amite.... Fecal Coliform.
040305.................................. Colyell Creek System (includes Colyell Fecal Coliform.
Bay).
040503.................................. Natalbany River--Headwaters to Tickfaw Fecal Coliform.
River.
040504.................................. Yellow Water River--Origin to Ponchatoula Fecal Coliform.
Creek.
040505.................................. Ponchatoula Creek and Ponchatoula River... Fecal Coliform.
040603.................................. Selsers Creek--Origin to South Slough..... Fecal Coliform.
040703.................................. Big Creek and Tributaries--Headwaters to Fecal Coliform.
confluence with Tangipahoia River.
040909.................................. W-14 Main Diversion Canal--from its origin Fecal Coliform.
in the north end of the City of Slidell
to its junction with Salt Bayou.
040910.................................. Salt Bayou--Headwaters to Lake Fecal Coliform.
Pontchartrain (Estuarine).
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041302.................................. Lake Pontchartrain Drainage Canals........ Fecal Coliform.
041401.................................. New Orleans East Leveed Waterbodies Fecal Coliform.
(Estuarine).
040501.................................. Tickfaw River--From MS State Line to LA TDS.
Hwy 42 (Scenic).
040504.................................. Yellow Water River--Origin to Ponchatoula TDS.
Creek.
040301.................................. Amite River--MS State Line to LA Hwy 37 TSS.
(Scenic).
040401.................................. Blind River--From Amite River Diversion TSS.
Canal to mouth at Lake Maurepas (Scenic).
040903.................................. Bayou Cane--Headwaters to U.S. Hwy 190 TSS.
(Scenic).
040303.................................. Amite River--Amite River Diversion Canal Mercury.
to Lake Maurepas.
040401.................................. Blind River--From Amite River Diversion Mercury.
Canal to mouth at Lake Maurepas (Scenic).
040403.................................. Blind River--Source to confluence with Mercury.
Amite River Diversion Canal (Scenic).
040501.................................. Tickfaw River--From MS State Line to LA Mercury.
Hwy 42 (Scenic).
040701.................................. Tangipahoa River--MS State Line to Mercury.
Interstate Hwy 1-12 (Scenic).
040801.................................. Tchefuncte River and Tributaries-- Mercury.
Headwaters to confluence with Bogue
Falaya River (Scenic).
040905.................................. Bayou Liberty--Headwaters to LA Hwy 433
Mercury..
040906.................................. Bayou Liberty--LA Hwy 433 to confluence Mercury.
With Bayou Bonfouca (Estuarine).
040505.................................. Ponchatoula Creek and Ponchatoula Oxygen.
Dissolved River.
041201.................................. Bayou Labranche........................... Dissolved Oxygen.
041805.................................. Lake Borgne Canal (Violet Canal).......... Dissolved Oxygen.
041401.................................. New Orleans East Leveed Waterbodies....... Dissolved (Estuarine)
Oxygen.
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EPA requested the public provide to EPA any significant water
quality related data or information that might impact the 32 TMDLs in
the Federal Register Notices: volume 76, number 219, pages 70442 and
70443 (November 14, 2011), volume 76, number 234, page 76161 (December
6, 2011), and volume 76, number 247, page 80366 (December 23, 2011).
The comments which were received, EPA's response to comments, as well
as the TMDLs may be found at www.epa.gov/region6/water/npdes/tmdl/index.htm.
Dated: March 28, 2012.
William K. Honker,
P.E., Acting Director, Water Quality Protection Division, EPA Region 6.
[FR Doc. 2012-8496 Filed 4-9-12; 8:45 am]
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