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Public Hearing—Projects Scheduled for River), Borough of Archbald, Cecil County, Maryland. Modification of Action Lackawanna County, Pa. Application for surface water withdrawal, groundwater 1. Project Sponsor and Facility: surface water withdrawal of up to 0.499 withdrawal, and consumptive water use Fortuna Energy Inc. (Catatonk Creek), mgd. approval (Docket No. 20001203). 12. Project Sponsor and Facility: Town of Spencer, Tioga County, N.Y. Keystone Landfill, Inc., Dunmore Public Hearing—Project Scheduled for Applications for consumptive water use Borough, Lackawanna County, Pa. Enforcement Action of up to 0.250 mgd and surface water Applications for consumptive water use 1. Project Sponsor and Facility: withdrawal of up to 0.250 mgd. Standing Stone Golf Club (Docket No. 2. Project Sponsor and Facility: East of up to 0.100 mgd and groundwater withdrawal of 0.020 mgd from Well 1, 20020612), Oneida Township, Resources, Inc. (Chemung River), Town Huntington County, Pa. of Big Flats, Chemung County, N.Y. 0.010 mgd from Well 2, and 0.020 mgd Applications for consumptive water use from Well 3, and settlement of an Public Hearing—Petition To Reopen of up to 0.250 mgd and surface water outstanding compliance matter. Docket 13. Project Sponsor: United States withdrawal of up to 0.250 mgd. Gypsum Company. Project Facility: 1. Petition of East Hanover Township, 3. Project Sponsor and Facility: Washingtonville Plant (Well W–A8), et al., Dauphin County, Pa., to reopen Fortuna Energy Inc. (Chemung River), Derry Township, Montour County, Pa. Docket No. 20020819, Mountainview Chemung Town, Chemung County, N.Y. Application for groundwater Thoroughbred Racing Association, Inc. Applications for consumptive water use withdrawal of 0.350 mgd. of up to 0.250 mgd and surface water Public Hearing—Request for Hearing on 14. Project Sponsor: Kratzer Run Administrative Appeal withdrawal of up to 0.250 mgd. Development, LLC. Project Facility: 4. Project Sponsor and Facility: East Eagles Ridge Golf Club (formerly 1. Request of East Hanover Township, Resources, Inc. (Seeley Creek), Town of Grandview Golf Course/Susquehanna et al., Dauphin Co., Pa., for hearing on Southport, Chemung County, N.Y. Recreation Corporation), Ferguson administrative appeal of Docket No. Applications for consumptive water use Township, Clearfield County, Pa. 20080305, Mountainview Thoroughbred of up to 0.250 mgd and surface water Applications for consumptive water use Racing Association, Inc. withdrawal of up to 0.250 mgd. of up to 0.099 mgd and surface water 5. Project Sponsor and Facility: East Opportunity To Appear and Comment withdrawal of up to 0.099 mgd. Resources, Inc. (Tioga River; at Tioga 15. Project Sponsor and Facility: Interested parties may appear at the Junction), Lawrence Township, Tioga Commonwealth Environmental above hearing to offer written or oral County, Pa. Applications for Systems, L.P., Foster, Frailey and Reily comments to the Commission on any consumptive water use of up to 0.250 Townships, Schuylkill County, Pa. matter on the hearing agenda, or at the mgd and surface water withdrawal of up Modification of consumptive water use business meeting to offer written or oral to 0.250 mgd. and groundwater approval (Docket No. comments on other matters scheduled 6. Project Sponsor and Facility: East 20070304). for consideration at the business Resources, Inc. (Crooked Creek; near 16. Project Sponsor and Facility: meeting. The chair of the Commission Middlebury Center), Middlebury Lykens Valley Golf Course (formerly reserves the right to limit oral Township, Tioga County, Pa. Harrisburg North Golf Course), Upper statements in the interest of time and to Applications for consumptive water use Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pa. otherwise control the course of the of up to 0.250 mgd and surface water Applications for consumptive water use hearing and business meeting. Written withdrawal of up to 0.250 mgd. of up to 0.200 mgd and surface water comments may also be mailed to the 7. Project Sponsor and Facility: withdrawal of up to 0.200 mgd. Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Fortuna Energy Inc. (Susquehanna 17. Project Sponsor and Facility: 1721 North Front Street, Harrisburg, River), Sheshequin Township, Bradford Spring Creek Golf Course (Spring Pennsylvania 17102–2391, or submitted County, Pa. Applications for Creek), Derry Township, Dauphin electronically to Richard A. Cairo, consumptive water use of up to 0.250 County, Pa. Applications for General Counsel, e-mail: [email protected] mgd and surface water withdrawal of up consumptive water use of up to 0.081 or Deborah J. Dickey, Secretary to the to 0.250 mgd. mgd and surface water withdrawal of up Commission, e-mail: [email protected]. 8. Project Sponsor and Facility: East to 0.081 mgd. Comments mailed or electronically Resources, Inc. (Tioga River; near 18. Project Sponsor: Pennsy Supply, submitted must be received prior to Mansfield), Richmond Township, Tioga Inc. Project Facility: Hummelstown June 12, 2008 to be considered. County, Pa. Applications for Quarry, South Hanover Township, Authority: Pub. L. 91–575, 84 Stat. 1509 et consumptive water use of up to 0.250 Dauphin County, Pa. Application for seq., 18 CFR parts 806, 807, and 808. mgd and surface water withdrawal of up surface water withdrawal of up to Dated: May 19, 2008. to 0.250 mgd. 29.925 mgd. Thomas W. Beauduy, 9. Project Sponsor and Facility: 19. Project Sponsor: Titanium Hearth Fortuna Energy Inc. (Sugar Creek), West Technologies, Inc. Project Facility: Deputy Director. Burlington Township, Bradford County, TIMET North American Operations, [FR Doc. E8–12057 Filed 5–29–08; 8:45 am] Pa. Applications for consumptive water Caernarvon Township, Berks County, BILLING CODE 7040–01–P use of up to 0.250 mgd and surface Pa. Application for consumptive water water withdrawal of up to 0.250 mgd. use of up to 0.133 mgd, and settlement 10. Project Sponsor and Facility: of an outstanding compliance matter. VALLEY AUTHORITY Fortuna Energy Inc. (Towanda Creek), 20. Project Sponsor and Facility: Franklin Township, Bradford County, Conestoga Country Club (Well 1), Manor Environmental Impact Statement— Pa. Applications for consumptive water and Lancaster Townships, Lancaster Douglas and Nolichucky Reservoirs use of up to 0.250 mgd and surface County, Pa. Application for Land Management Plan, Tennessee water withdrawal of up to 0.250 mgd. groundwater withdrawal of 0.281 mgd. AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority. 11. Project Sponsor and Facility: 21. Project Sponsor and Facility: Rock ACTION: Notice of Intent. Neptune Industries, Inc. (Lackawanna Springs Generation Facility, Rising Sun,

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SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley management area. TVA presently Recreation, and Shoreline Access. If Authority (TVA) will prepare an manages a total of 3,198 acres of land on there are multiple Action Alternatives, environmental impact statement (EIS) the two reservoirs that are the subject of they would likely differ in the amount addressing the impacts of various this Plan. of land allocated to each of these zones. alternatives for managing project lands The Plan will allocate lands to various Under all alternatives, TVA on Douglas and Nolichucky Reservoirs categories of uses in accordance with anticipates that lands currently in northeastern Tennessee. Public the following goals: (1) Apply a committed to a specific use would be comment is invited concerning both the systematic method of evaluating and allocated to that current use. Under all scope of the EIS and environmental identifying the most suitable uses of Action Alternatives, changes that issues that should be addressed as a part TVA public lands using resource data, support TVA goals and objectives and of this EIS. stakeholder input, suitability and the TVA Land Policy can be considered. DATES: Comments on the scope of the capability analyses, and TVA staff Committed lands include those subject EIS and the environmental issues that input; (2) identify land use zone to existing long-term easements, leases, should be addressed in the EIS should allocations to optimize public benefit licenses, and contracts; lands with be received on or before July 1, 2008. and balance competing demands for the outstanding land rights; and lands that ADDRESSES: Written comments should use of public lands; (3) identify land use are necessary for TVA project be sent to Richard L. Toennisson, zone allocations to support TVA’s broad operations. The committed lands are 26 Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West regional resource development mission, percent of the public land being Summit Hill Drive WT 11D, Knoxville, which involves the management of TVA planned on Douglas Reservoir and 66 Tennessee 37902. Comments also may reservoir properties to provide multiple percent of the public land being be submitted on the TVA Web site at public benefits including recreation, planned on Nolichucky Reservoir. http://www.tva.com/environment/ conservation, and economic Uncommitted lands on both reservoirs reports/dnlp, by telephone at (866) 601– development; (4) provide a clear process total 889 acres. This EIS will tier from TVA’s 1998 4612, or by fax at (865) 632–3451. by which TVA will respond to requests for use of TVA public land; (5) comply Final EIS, Shoreline Management FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: D. with federal regulations and executive Initiative: An Assessment of Residential Chris Cooper, Tennessee Valley orders; (6) ensure the protection of Shoreline Development Impacts in the Authority, 3726 East Morris Boulevard, significant resources, including Tennessee Valley. That EIS evaluated Morristown, Tennessee 37813. threatened and endangered species, alternative policies for managing Telephone: (423) 585–2138. E-mail may cultural resources, wetlands, unique residential shoreline development on be sent to Douglas- _ habitats, natural areas, water quality, TVA reservoirs. Residential shoreline Nolichucky [email protected]. and the visual character of the reservoir; occurs on Douglas Reservoir, and the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: and (7) provide a mechanism that Plan will not affect the policies for its Background allows local, state, and federal management. infrastructure projects when the use is Proposed Issues To Be Addressed This notice is provided in accordance compatible with the zone allocation. with the Council on Environmental Plans are submitted to the TVA Board The EIS will contain descriptions of Quality’s regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 of Directors for approval and adopted as the existing environmental and to 1503), TVA’s procedures for guidelines for management of TVA socioeconomic resources within the area implementing the National public land consistent with the agency’s that would be affected by the Plan. Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and responsibilities under the TVA Act of TVA’s evaluation of potential impacts to section 106 of the National Historic 1933. these resources will include, but not Preservation Act (NHPA) and its necessarily be limited to, the potential implementing regulations (36 CFR part Potential Alternatives impacts on water quality, water supply, 800). The EIS will analyze a range of aquatic and terrestrial ecology, The Douglas and Nolichucky alternative approaches to land endangered and threatened species, Reservoirs Land Management Plan allocation to implement the goals of wetlands, prime farmlands, floodplains, (Plan) will address lands on Douglas TVA’s land planning and to comply recreation, aesthetics and visual Reservoir in Cocke, Jefferson, Hamblen, with the 2006 TVA Land Policy. Under resources, land use, historic and and Sevier Counties, Tennessee, and on the No Action Alternative, TVA would archaeological resources, and Nolichucky Reservoir in Greene County, continue to rely on the Forecast System socioeconomic resources. TN. adopted by TVA in 1965 for Douglas was completed by TVA Reservoir. Planned uses under the Scoping Process in 1942 on the French Broad River and Forecast System are Dam Reservation, Scoping, which is integral to the has a generating capacity of 165,600 Public Recreation, Agricultural process for implementing NEPA, is a kilowatts. Douglas Reservoir has about Research, Industry, Reservoir procedure that solicits public input to 530 miles of shoreline with 28,420 acres Operations, and Commercial Recreation. the EIS process to ensure that (1) issues of water surface and 2,054 acres of Nolichucky Reservoir lands would are identified early and properly public land managed by TVA. remain unplanned. studied; (2) issues of little significance Nolichucky Dam was privately built in One or more Action Alternatives are do not consume substantial time and 1913 as a hydroelectric project on the anticipated depending on the results of effort; (3) the draft EIS is thorough and . Nolichucky Reservoir the public scoping and environmental balanced; and (4) delays caused by an stretches six miles upstream from analysis. Under any Action Alternative, inadequate EIS are avoided. TVA’s Nolichucky Dam and has 1,144 acres of TVA contemplates allocating lands into NEPA procedures require that the public land managed by TVA. Due to the following zones: Non-TVA scoping process commence soon after a siltation of the reservoir, the electrical Shoreland/Flowage Easement, TVA decision has been reached to prepare an generating facilities were taken out of Project Operations, Sensitive Resource EIS in order to provide an early and service in 1972 and a portion of the Management, Natural Resource open process for determining the scope reservoir was converted into a wildlife Conservation, Industrial, Developed and for identifying the significant issues

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related to a proposed action. The range DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION lengthy delays, such as working with of alternatives and the issues to be carriers and airports to share facilities addressed in the EIS will be determined, Office of the Secretary and make gates available in an in part, from written comments and [Docket No. DOT–OST–2007–0108] emergency. To effectuate this comments submitted orally on the recommendation, on January 3, 2008, telephone or at any public meetings. National Task Force To Develop Model the Department, consistent with the The preliminary identification of Contingency Plans To Deal With requirements of the FACA, established reasonable alternatives and Lengthy Airline On-Board Ground the National Task Force to Develop environmental issues in this notice is Delays Model Contingency Plans to Deal with not meant to be exhaustive or final. Lengthy Airline On-Board Ground AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Delays. The first meeting of the Task Additional information on the planning Department of Transportation (DOT). process is available on the TVA Web Force took place on February 26, 2008. ACTION: Notice of meeting of advisory The agenda topics for the June 16, site at http://www.tva.com/ committee. 2008, meeting will include the environment/reports/dnlp/. following: (1) A briefing by the TVA invites the participation of SUMMARY: This notice announces a Contingency Plan Working Group, the affected Federal, State, and local meeting of the National Task Force to working group that is tasked with agencies and Indian tribes, as well as Develop Model Contingency Plans to reviewing existing airline and airport other interested persons. Pursuant to the Deal with Lengthy Airline On-Board contingency plans for extended tarmac regulations of the Advisory Council on Ground Delays. delays for best practices and developing Historic Preservation implementing DATES: The Task Force meeting is a model contingency plan; and (2) one Section 106 of the NHPA, TVA also scheduled for June 16, 2008, from 8:30 or more presentations on recent tarmac solicits comments on the potential of a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Time. delay events and efforts to avoid them. the proposed Plan to affect historic ADDRESSES: The Task Force meeting Attendance is open to the public, and properties. This notice also provides an will be held at the U.S. Department of time will be provided for comments by opportunity under Executive Orders Transportation (U.S. DOT), 1200 New members of the public. Since access to 11990 and 11988 for early public review Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, in the U.S. DOT headquarters building is of the potential for TVA’s Plan to affect the Oklahoma City Conference Room on controlled for security purposes, any wetlands and floodplains, respectively. the lobby level of the West Building. member of the general public who plans FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO to attend this meeting must notify the Comments on the scope of this EIS Department contact noted above ten (10) should be submitted no later than the CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT CONCERNING THE TASK FORCE: Livaughn Chapman, Jr., calendar days prior to the meeting. date given under the DATES section of Attendance will be necessarily limited this notice. Any comments received, or Kathleen Blank-Riether, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of by the size of the meeting room. including names and addresses, will Members of the public may present Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave., become part of the administrative record written comments at any time and, at SE., W–96–429, Washington, DC 20590– and will be available for public the discretion of the Chairman and time 0001; Phone: (202) 366–9342; Fax: (202) inspection. permitting, oral comments at the 366–7152; E-mail: TVA intends to hold a public scoping meeting. Any oral comments permitted [email protected], or must be limited to agenda items and meeting on June 12, 2008. The open [email protected]. house style meeting will be held from will be limited to five (5) minutes per SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: person. Members of the public who 4–8 p.m. EDT at Walters State In accordance with the Federal wish to present oral comments must Community College in Morristown, Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 notify the Department contact noted Tennessee. Upon consideration of the U.S.C. App. 2, and the General Services above via e-mail that they wish to attend scoping comments, TVA will develop Administration regulations covering and present oral comments at least ten alternatives and identify environmental management of Federal advisory (10) calendar days prior to the meeting. issues to be addressed in the EIS. These committees, 41 CFR part 102–3, this For this June 16, 2008, meeting, no more will be described in a report that will be notice announces a meeting of the than one hour will be set aside for oral available to the public. Following National Task Force to Develop Model comments. Although written material analysis of the environmental Contingency Plans to Deal with Lengthy may be filed in the docket at any time, consequences of each alternative, TVA Airline On-Board Ground Delays. The comments regarding upcoming meeting will prepare a draft EIS for public Meeting will be held on June 16, 2008, topics should be sent to the Task Force review and comment. Notice of between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., at the docket, (10) calendar days prior to the availability of the draft EIS will be U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. meeting. Members of the public may published by the Environmental DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., also contact the Department contact Protection Agency in the Federal Washington, DC, in the Oklahoma City noted above to be placed on the Task Register. TVA will solicit comments on Conference Room on the lobby level of Force mailing list. the draft EIS in writing and at public the West Building. Persons with a disability requiring meetings to be held in the project area. DOT’s Office of Inspector General special accommodations, such as an TVA expects to release the draft EIS in recommended, in its audit report, interpreter for the hearing impaired, early 2009 and the final EIS in the fall entitled ‘‘Actions Needed to Minimize should contact the Department contact of 2009. Long, On-Board Flight Delays,’’ issued noted above at least seven (7) calendar on September 25, 2007, that the days prior to the meeting. Bridgette K. Ellis, Secretary of Transportation establish a Notice of this meeting is provided in Senior Vice President, Office of Environment national task force of airlines, airports, accordance with the FACA and the and Research. and the Federal Aviation General Services Administration [FR Doc. E8–11829 Filed 5–29–08; 8:45 am] Administration (FAA) to coordinate and regulations covering management of BILLING CODE 8120–08–P develop contingency plans to deal with Federal advisory committees.

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