HomeMy WebLinkAbout20061203 Ver 2_More Info Received_2010022210896 Federal Register/Vol. 74, No. 48/Friday, March 13, 2009/Notices
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Availability of Non-Exclusive,
Exclusive License or Partially
Exclusive Licensing of U.S. Patent
Concerning Polymerization of
Aromatic Monomers Using Derivatives
of Hematin
AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR
Part 404.6, announcement is made of
the availability for licensing of U.S.
Patent No. U.S. 7,479,329 entitled
"Polymerization of Aromatic Monomers
Using Derivatives of Hematin" issued
January 20, 2009. This patent has been
assigned to the United States
Government as represented by the
Secretary of the Army.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Jeffrey DiTullio at U.S. Army Soldier
Systems Center, Kansas Street, Natick,
MA 01760, Phone; (508) 233-4184 or E-
mail: Jeffrey.Ditullio@natick.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any
licenses granted shall comply with 35
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR Part 404.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-5461 Filed 3-12-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3710-08-P
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
The Release of the Draft Environmental
Impact Statement (DEIS) and the
Announcement of a Public Hearing for
the Proposed Construction of the
Western Wake Regional Wastewater
Management Facilities, Which Includes
Regional Wastewater Pumping,
Conveyance, Treatment, and
Discharge Facilities To Serve the
Towns of Apex, Cary, Holly Springs
and Morrisville, as Well as the Wake
County Portion of Research Triangle
Park (Service Area), NC
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (COE), Wilmington District,
Regulatory Division has been reviewing
the request for Department of the Army
authorization, pursuant to Section 404
of the Clean Water Act from the Town
of Cary, acting as the lead for the
Western Wake Regional Wastewater
Management Facilities Project Partners
(Western Wake Partners), to construct
Regional Wastewater Management
Facility. The proposed project consists
of regional wastewater pumping,
conveyance, treatment, and discharge
facilities to serve the Towns of Apex,
Cary, Holly Springs and Morrisville, as
well as the Wake County portion of
Research Triangle Park (RTP South),
NC.
The project is being proposed by the
Western Wake Partners to provide
wastewater service for planned growth
and development in the project service
area and to comply with two regulatory
mandates. One regulatory mandate has
been issued by the North Carolina
Environmental Management
Commission (EMC), and the second
regulatory mandate has been issued by
the North Carolina Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (NC
DENR).
DATES: The Public Hearing will be held
at the Town of Apex Town Hall, 73
Hunter Street, Apex North Carolina, on
April 14, 2009 at 6 p.m. Written
comments on the Draft EIS will be
received until April 27, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Copies of comments and
questions regarding the Draft EIS may be
addressed to: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Wilmington District,
Regulatory Division. ATTN: File
Number 2005-20159, 69 Darlington
Avenue, Wilmington, NC 28403. Copies
of the Draft EIS can be reviewed on the
Wilmington District Regulatory
homepage at http://
www.saw.usace.army.mil/wetlands/
projects/ww-wtp, or contact Ms. Gwen
Robinson, at (910) 251-4494, to receive
written or CD copies of the Draft EIS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions about the proposed action
and DEIS can be directed to Mr. Henry
Wicker, Project Manager, Regulatory
Division, telephone: (910) 251-4930.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Project Description. The proposed
project consists of regional wastewater
pumping, conveyance, treatment, and
discharge facilities to serve the Towns
of Apex, Cary, Holly Springs and
Morrisville, as well as RTP South
(service area), NC. The purpose of the
project is to provide wastewater service
for planned growth and development in
the project service area and to comply
with two regulatory mandates. One
regulatory mandate has been issued by
the North Carolina Environmental
Management Commission (EMC), and
the second regulatory mandate has been
issued by the North Carolina
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (NC DENR).
Regulatory Mandate No. 1-Interbasin
Transfer: The Towns of Apex, Cary, and
Morrisville, as well as Research Triangle
Park (RTP) South, obtain their drinking
water from Jordan Lake in the Cape Fear
River Basin and discharge treated
effluent to locations in the Neuse River
Basin. Obtaining water from one basin
and discharging it to another river basin
is referred to as an interbasin transfer
(IBT), which requires a permit from the
EMC. In July 2001, the EMC granted the
Towns of Apex, Cary, and Morrisville,
as well as Wake County (on behalf of
RTP South), an IBT certificate to
withdraw water from the Cape Fear
River Basin and discharge the water to
the Neuse River Basin. However, as a
condition of approval, the IBT
certificate issued by the EMC requires
the local governments to return
reclaimed water to the Cape Fear River
Basin after 2010. As a result, the local
governments have initiated activities to
plan, permit, design, and construct
wastewater transmission, treatment, and
disposal facilities in order to comply
with the terms and conditions of the IBT
certificate issued by the EMC. The
facilities that will be described and
evaluated in the environmental impact
statement (DEIS) are needed to comply
with the IBT certificate terms and
conditions.
Regulatory Mandate No. 2-Nutrient
Enrichment for Harris Lake: The Town
of Holly Springs currently has a
wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
that discharges to Utley Creek, which is
a tributary to Harris Lake in the Cape
Fear River Basin. Representatives from
NCDENR have directed the Town of
Holly Springs to remove the Town's
wastewater discharge from Utley Creek
due to nutrient enrichment issues in
Utley Creek and downstream in Harris
Lake. In addition, NCDENR has
encouraged Holly Springs to participate
with Apex, Cary and Morrisville on a
regional wastewater management
program that will allow Holly Springs to
remove the Town's discharge from Utley
Creek after 2010. Thus, Holly Springs is
participating with Apex, Cary and
Morrisville in the planning, permitting,
design and construction of regional
effluent disposal facilities in order to
comply with the mandate issued by
NCDENR to remove its discharge from
Utley Creek. The regional effluent
disposal facilities that will be described
and evaluated in the DEIS are needed to
comply with the NCDENR mandate.
The proposed project was reviewed to
address a number of issues which
includes an alternatives analysis, direct
environmental impacts, secondary and
cumulative environmental impacts,
environmental justice concerns,
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endangered species, and potential
project costs.
2. Proposed Action. The proposed
action is to construct a regional
wastewater pumping, conveyance,
treatment, and discharge facility to serve
the Towns of Apex, Cary, Holly Springs
and Morrisville, as well as RTP South,
North Carolina. The Towns have
cooperated together to develop the
proposal, and each town will be
responsible for the permits for their part
of the proposed project. It is anticipated
there will be 4 permit requests to
construct the whole project. Future
request for Department of the Army
authorization for other sections of the
project will be submitted once the final
plans have been completed.
This request for Department of the
Army authorization consists of the
construction of a regional wastewater
system that includes the construction of
influent conveyance facilities, a new
water reclamation facility (WRF), and
new effluent conveyance facilities in
western Wake County and Chatham
County, North Carolina to serve the
Towns of Apex, Cary, and Morrisville
and RTP South. The proposed WRF site
is north of U.S. 1 and just south of Old
U.S. 1 between New Hill-Holleman and
Shearon Harris Roads. The WRF would
be constructed in two phases to a
proposed treatment capacity of 30-
million gallons per day (mgd). The
Town of Holly Springs Utley Creek
Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
has already been approved to expand to
6 MGD and will share the 38 MGD
outfall to the Cape Fear River. The
effluent line will leave the WRF in
Wake County and enter Chatham
County to the discharge point located on
the Cape Fear River downstream of
Buckhorn Dam in Chatham County.
As a result of the construction
activities related to this permit request
from Western Wake Partners, there will
be temporary and permanent impacts to
wetlands and streams. The total
permanent impact of the proposed
project is 509 of linear feet (If) of stream
(329 if of perennial and 180 if
intermittent) and 1.8 acres of wetlands.
The total temporary impact of the
proposed project is 1,924 if of stream
(1,115 if of perennial and 809 if of
intermittent) and 6.8 acres of wetlands.
Most of these impacts are along the
influent transmission lines.
3. Alternatives. An extensive
alternatives analysis was performed and
reviewed by the Project Delivery Team
(PDT). This included the evaluation of
wastewater management options;
wastewater discharge options; WRF site
alternatives; conveyance alternatives
and wastewater outfall options. Many
alternatives were identified and
evaluated through the scoping process,
and further detailed description of all
alternatives is disclosed in Section or
Chapter 2 of the Draft EIS.
4. Scoping Process. A public scoping
meeting was held on April 19, 2007 and
a Project Delivery Team (PDT) was
developed to provide input in the
preparation of the EIS. The PDT was
comprised of representatives from local,
state, and federal government, the
Western Wake Partners, Wake County,
Chatham County, and the New Hill
Community.
The COE coordinated closely with the
North Carolina Division of Water
Quality Construction Grants and Loans
Section in the development of the EIS
to ensure the process complies with
State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
requirements, as well as the NEPA
requirements. The Draft EIS has been
designed to consolidate both NEPA and
SEPA processes to eliminate
duplications.
Dated: March 4, 2009.
C. Scott McLendon,
Assistant Chief, Wilmington Regulatory
District.
[FR Doc. E9-5563 Filed 3-12-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3720-58-P
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Corps of Engineers
Department of the Army; Notice of
Solicitation for Estuary Habitat
Restoration Program
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of solicitation for project
applications.
SUMMARY: Congress has appropriated
limited funds to the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps) for implementation of
the Estuary Habitat Restoration Program
as authorized in Section 104 of the
Estuary Restoration Act of 2000, Title I
of the Estuaries and Clean Waters Act of
2000 (Pub. L. 106-457) (accessible at
http://www. usace. army.mil/CECW/ERA/
pages/Default.aspx). On behalf of the
Estuary Habitat Restoration Council
(Council), the Corps is soliciting
proposals for estuary habitat restoration
projects. This document describes
project criteria and evaluation criteria
the Council will use to determine which
projects to recommend. Recommended
projects must provide ecosystem
benefits, have scientific merit, be
technically feasible, and be cost-
effective. Proposals selected for Estuary
Habitat Restoration Program funding
may be implemented in accordance
with a cost-share agreement with the
Corps, a cooperative agreement with the
Corps, or a cooperative agreement with
one of the other agencies represented on
the Council, subject to availability of
funds.
DATES: Proposals must be received on or
before May 12, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Ellen Cummings,
Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Washington, DC 20314-1000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Ellen Cummings, (202) 761-4750, e-
mail:
Ellen.M.Cummings@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
Under the Estuary Habitat Restoration
Program, the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps), Department of the
Interior (acting through the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service), National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration,
Environmental Protection Agency, and
Department of Agriculture are
authorized to carry out estuary habitat
restoration projects. However, the
Estuary Habitat Restoration Council
(Council) is responsible for soliciting,
reviewing and evaluating project
proposals. The agencies may only fund
projects on the prioritized list provided
by the Council. The Estuary Habitat
Restoration Strategy prepared by the
Council contains introductory
information about the program and
provides the context in which projects
will be evaluated and the program will
be conducted. The Strategy was
published in the Federal Register (67
FR 71942) on December 3, 2002. It is
also accessible at http://
w w w. u s a c e. a rm y. m i l /CECW/ERA/
pages/Default.aspx in PDF format.
An emphasis will be placed on
achieving cost-effective restoration of
ecosystems while promoting increased
partnerships among agencies and
between public and private sectors.
Projects funded under this program will
contribute to the Estuary Habitat
Restoration Strategy goal of restoring
1,000,000 acres of estuary habitat.
For purposes of this program, estuary
is defined as "a part of a river or stream
or other body of water that has an
unimpaired connection with the open
sea and where the sea water is
measurably diluted with fresh water
from land drainage." Estuary also
includes the" * * near coastal waters
and wetlands of the Great Lakes that are
similar in form and function to estuaries
* * *" For this program, estuary is
considered to extend from the head of
tide to the boundary with the open sea