[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 183 (Friday, September 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44486-44487]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20276]
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SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION
Actions Taken at September 7, 2017, Meeting
AGENCY: Susquehanna River Basin Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: As part of its regular business meeting held on September 7,
2017, in Elmira, New York, the Commission took the following actions:
(1) Approved or tabled the applications of certain water resources
projects; and (2) took additional actions, as set forth in the
Supplementary Information below.
DATES: September 7, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Susquehanna River Basin Commission, 4423 N. Front Street,
Harrisburg, PA 17110-1788.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jason E. Oyler, General Counsel,
telephone: 717-238-0423, ext. 1312; fax: 717-238-2436; [email protected].
Regular mail inquiries may be sent to the above address. See also
Commission Web site at www.srbc.net.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In addition to the actions taken on projects
identified in the summary above and the listings below, the following
items were also presented or acted upon at the business meeting: (1)
Approval of a grant and a grant amendment; (2) tabled action to amend
Commission By-laws; (3) adoption of guidelines for preparing an
alternatives analysis to provide clarity to project sponsors regarding
a formal evaluation of alternate options for a proposed water source,
use or diversion; (4) release of proposed rulemaking to amend the
Commission's regulations to codify and strengthen its Access to Records
Policy; (5) approval of waiver requests of Carrolltown Borough
Municipal Authority and the Village of Hamilton to extend the
expiration dates of their groundwater withdrawal approvals; (6)
approval of Middletown Borough's request for waiver, modifying the
requirements of the regulation appropriate to Middletown's request and
directed staff to apply this modification to similar situations while a
corresponding rulemaking is developed; (7) denied a request for waiver
from Peak Resorts, Inc./Greek Peak Mountain Resort; (8) approval to
extend the terms of emergency certificates for Sunset Golf Course,
Sunoco Pipeline L.P., and Furman Foods, Inc.; and (9) a report on
delegated settlements with the following project sponsors, pursuant to
SRBC Resolution 2014-15: Labrador Mountain, in the amount of $2,000;
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Standing Stone Golf Club, Inc., in the amount of $2,000; and Suez Water
Owego-Nichols, Inc., in the amount of $7,500.
Project Applications Approved
The Commission approved the following project applications:
1. Project Sponsor and Facility: Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation
(Meshoppen Creek), Springville Township, Susquehanna County, Pa.
Renewal with modification of surface water withdrawal of up to 0.750
mgd (peak day) (Docket No. 20130904).
2. Project Sponsor and Facility: Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C.
(Chemung River), Athens Township, Bradford County, Pa. Renewal of
surface water withdrawal of up to 0.999 mgd (peak day) (Docket No.
20130905).
3. Project Sponsor and Facility: Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C.
(Sugar Creek), Burlington Township, Bradford County, Pa. Renewal of
surface water withdrawal of up to 0.499 mgd (peak day) (Docket No.
20130906).
4. Project Sponsor and Facility: Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C.
(Susquehanna River), Terry Township, Bradford County, Pa. Renewal of
surface water withdrawal of up to 1.440 mgd (peak day) (Docket No.
20130907).
5. Project Sponsor and Facility: Chief Oil & Gas LLC (Towanda
Creek), Leroy Township, Bradford County, Pa. Surface water withdrawal
of up to 1.500 mgd (peak day).
6. Project Sponsor and Facility: Downs Racing, L.P. d/b/a Mohegan
Sun Pocono, Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Consumptive use of up
to 0.350 mgd (peak day).
7. Project Sponsor and Facility: Elizabethtown Area Water
Authority, Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pa. Renewal of
groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.432 mgd (30-day average) from Well 6
(Docket No. 19861103).
8. Project Sponsor and Facility: Elizabethtown Area Water
Authority, Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pa. Groundwater
withdrawal of up to 0.432 mgd (30-day average) from Well 7.
9. Project Sponsor and Facility: Elizabethtown Area Water
Authority, Elizabethtown Borough and Mount Joy Township, Lancaster
County, Pa. Modification to correct total system limit to remove
inclusion of water discharged to the Conewago watershed to offset
passby and transfer of water from Conewago Creek to Back Run (Docket
No. 20160903).
10. Project Sponsor and Facility: Moxie Freedom LLC, Salem
Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Modification to increase consumptive use
by an additional 0.408 mgd (peak day), for a total consumptive use of
up to 0.500 mgd (peak day) (Docket No. 20150907).
11. Project Sponsor and Facility: Susquehanna Gas Field Services,
LLC (Meshoppen Creek), Meshoppen Borough, Wyoming County, Pa. Renewal
of surface water withdrawal of up to 0.145 mgd (peak day) (Docket No.
20130913).
12. Project Sponsor and Facility: Susquehanna Nuclear, LLC, Salem
Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Modification to increase consumptive use
by an additional 5.000 mgd (peak day), for a total consumptive use of
up to 53.000 mgd (peak day) (Docket No. 19950301).
13. Project Sponsor and Facility: Susquehanna Nuclear, LLC
(Susquehanna River), Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Modification
to increase surface water withdrawal by an additional 10.000 mgd (peak
day), for a total surface water withdrawal increase of up to 76.000 mgd
(peak day) (Docket No. 19950301).
14. Project Sponsor and Facility: SWEPI LP (Elk Run), Sullivan
Township, Tioga County, Pa. Surface water withdrawal of up to 0.646 mgd
(peak day).
15. Project Sponsor and Facility: SWN Production Company, LLC
(Wyalusing Creek), Wyalusing Township, Bradford County, Pa. Renewal of
surface water withdrawal of up to 2.000 mgd (peak day) (Docket No.
20130911).
16. Project Sponsor and Facility: Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Company, LLC. Project: Atlantic Sunrise (Fishing Creek), Sugarloaf
Township, Columbia County, Pa. Modification to add consumptive use of
up to 0.200 mgd (peak day) to existing docket approval (Docket No.
20160913).
17. Project Sponsor and Facility: Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Company, LLC. Project: Atlantic Sunrise (Fishing Creek), Sugarloaf
Township, Columbia County, Pa. Modification to change authorized use of
source to existing docket approval (Docket No. 20160913).
Project Applications Tabled
The Commission tabled action on the following project applications:
1. Project Sponsor and Facility: Houtzdale Municipal Authority,
Gulich Township, Clearfield County, Pa. Application for groundwater
withdrawal of up to 1.008 mgd (30-day average) from Well 14R.
2. Project Sponsor and Facility: Village of Waverly, Tioga County,
N.Y. Application for groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.320 mgd (30-day
average) from Well 1.
3. Project Sponsor and Facility: Village of Waverly, Tioga County,
N.Y. Application for groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.480 mgd (30-day
average) from Well 2.
4. Project Sponsor and Facility: Village of Waverly, Tioga County,
N.Y. Application for groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.470 mgd (30-day
average) from Well 3.
Authority: Pub. L. 91-575, 84 Stat. 1509 et seq., 18 CFR parts
806, 807, and 808.
Dated: September 19, 2017.
Stephanie L. Richardson,
Secretary to the Commission.
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