Clean Ocean Action
List of Ocean Related Activities
Friday, December 16, 2005
Clean Ocean Action may or may not comment on the following notices. Please contact the office at (732) 872-0111 if you are interested in any of the listed projects or e-mail Nicole Simmons at policy@cleanoceanaction.org
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), NY District
View Public notices at http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/business/buslinks/pnotices/index.htm.
· None at this time.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District
View Public Notices at http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/cenap-pa/news.htm#public.
· The Philadelphia District has had preliminary discussions with groups interested in installing wind turbines off the New Jersey and Delaware coast, within areas of Federal jurisdiction. This office would regulate the installation of the turbine structures under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbor Act of 1899. Additional work for the installation of submerged marine cables, shoreline facilities and associated activities may be regulated under Section 404 of the Clean Waters Act. As of this date, no formal applications have been received by the District for any off-shore wind turbine projects. Based on the Energy Policy Act of 2005, signed by President Bush on 8 August 2005, the Department of the Interior, Mineral Management Service; Department of Off-Shore Mineral Management is now the lead Federal agency for proposed off-shore wind turbine projects. You need to contact the following for additional information: Ms. Maureen Bornholdt
Mineral Management Sevice
Department of Off-Shore Mineral Management
381 Elden Street
Herndon, Virginia 21071
maureen.bornholdt@mms.gov
Phone: (703) 787-1300
FAX: (703) 787-1165
Be advised that Department of the Army authorization will still be required for work within navigable waters of the US.
o For additional information concerning the status of the Philadelphia District's involvement with these proposed wind turbine projects, contact Mr. Lawrence M. Slavitter at 215-656-6734 or by e-mail: Lawrence.M.Slavitter@nap02.usace.army.mil.
For more details, visit the Philly District main page at http://www.nap.usace.army.mil, and then drop down about 2/3 of the page and click on “Permits, Wetlands, and Regulatory.” Then go to the Quicklink for Wind Proposals in the Philly District.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Notice is published in the Federal Register - the daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal Agencies. Visit http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/aboutfr.htm.
· Nov 25, 2005 Fed Reg - SUMMARY: On November 24, 2004, EPA published proposed regulations to establish requirements for cooling water intake structures at Phase III facilities under section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). EPA
proposed the following three options for defining which existing
facilities would be subject to uniform national requirements, based on the facility's design intake flow threshold and source waterbody type:
The facility has a total design intake flow of 50 million gallons per day (MGD) or more, and withdraws from any waterbody; the facility has a total design intake flow of 200 MGD or more, and withdraws from any waterbody; or the facility has a total design intake flow of 100 MGD or more and withdraws specifically from an ocean, estuary, tidal river, or one of the Great Lakes. The proposed rule would also establish national section 316(b) requirements for new offshore oil and gas extraction facilities. This notice of data availability (NODA) summarizes significant data EPA received or collected since publication of the proposed rule and discusses how EPA may use this data in revising its
analyses. EPA solicits public comment on the information presented in this notice and the record supporting this notice.
DATES: Comments on this notice of data availability must be received or postmarked on or before midnight December 27, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted by mail addressed to: Water Docket
Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 4101T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460
Attention: Docket ID No OW-2004-0002. Comments may also be submitted electronically, or by hand delivery. Follow the detailed instructions as provided in Section B.1 of the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional technical information contact Paul Shriner at (202) 566-1076. For additional economic information contact Erik Helm at (202) 566-1066. For additional biological information contact Ashley Allen at (202) 566-1012. The e-mail address for the above contacts is rule.316b@epa.gov
· Dec 1, 2005 Fed Register - SUMMARY: EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10 today are proposing EPA's NPDES general permit for stormwater discharges from industrial activity, also referred to as the Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP). Today's proposed permit will replace the existing permit covering industrial sites in EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 that expired on October 30, 2005. Today's proposed permit is similar to the existing
permit and will authorize the discharge of stormwater associated with industrial activities in accordance with the terms and conditions described therein. EPA seeks comment on the proposed permit and on the accompanying fact sheet.
DATES: Comments on the proposed general permit must be postmarked by January 16, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted electronically, by mail, or through hand delivery/courier. Send written comments to: Follow the detailed instructions as provided in Section I.B.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information on the proposed NPDES general permit, contact the appropriate EPA Regional Office listed in Section I.F, or contact Jenny Molloy, EPA Headquarters, Office of Water, Office of Wastewater Management at tel.: 202-564-1939 or e-mail: molloy.jennifer@epa.gov.
· Dec 12. 2005 - SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is today proposing to amend the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan requirements to reduce the regulatory burden for certain facilities by: Providing an option that would allow owners/
operators of facilities that store less than 10,000 gallons of oil and meet other qualifying criteria to self-certify their SPCC Plans, in lieu of review and certification by a Professional Engineer; providing an alternative to the secondary containment requirement, without requiring a determination of impracticability, for facilities that have certain types of oil-filled equipment; defining and providing an exemption for motive power containers; and exempting airport mobile refuelers from the specifically sized secondary containment requirements for bulk storage containers. In addition, the Agency also proposes to remove and reserve certain SPCC requirements for animal
fats and vegetable oils and proposes a separate extension of the
compliance dates for farms. In proposing these changes, EPA is
significantly reducing the burden imposed on the regulated community in complying with the SPCC requirements, while maintaining protection of human health and the environment. Further, the Agency requests comments on the potential scope of future rulemaking. In a separate document in today's Federal Register, the Agency is proposing to extend the compliance dates for all facilities.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 10, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ- OPA-2005-0001 by one of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: The mailing address of the docket for this
rulemaking is EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPA- 2005-0001, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.
• Hand Delivery: Such deliveries are only accepted during
the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
The most recent DEP Bulletin was published on December 7, 2005. This alert also includes notices from the November 16th Bulletin. Public comment for most of the project’s listed are due either 15 or 30 days after the publication date. For NJPDES permit applications, the “publication date” is the date published in the newspaper, if also published in the DEP Bulletin; or, the date of publication in the Bulletin, if only published in the Bulletin. Visit http://www.state.nj.us/dep/bulletin/ to review the Bulletin.
Nov 16 Bulletin: The Corps of Engineers, Dep’t of the Army has applied for a federal consistency determination for a minor modification/maintenance of the Arthur Kill Channel. The channel is to be extended on the northern end to just beyond the Gothels Bridge, about a half-mile distance. Project # 0000-01-1003.1, Project Manager: Suzanne Dietrick. Comments are due within 15 days of the publication date; therefore, the deadline was October 20, 2005. An application for the same project for a modification-maintenance dredging of the Arthur Kill Reach of NY & NJ Channels to a depth of –35 feet below MLW plus 2 feet overdredge for a total volume 298, 110 CY. Comment deadline currently unknown; awaiting response from DEP.
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