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INDEPENDENT REGULATORY REVIEW COMMISSION Notice of Comments Issued: Environmental Quality Board Regulation # 7-561 (IRRC # 3310) Additional RACT Requirements for Major Sources of NOx and VOCs for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS
THE GOVERNOR EXECUTIVE ORDER 2021-07: Office of Environmental Justice
PROPOSED RULEMAKING DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION: Importations of Water into and Exportations of Water from the Delaware River Basin; Discharges of Wastewater from High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing and Related Activities
Shamrock Compressor Station to extend the period of installation and continued temporary operation

eFACTS Listings

HERRIOTT WELL CONNECT Minor IW Facility without ELG (New)
SIEGEL WELL PAD Expedited E&S Stormwater General Permit 1 Notification (New)
SHAMROCK COMP STA Minor Facility Plan Approval New Source Performance Std Extension Issued 11/18/2021
TEXAS EASTERN TRANS LP 2021 Integrity Program Fayette County 9 DIG-0349 GP-08 Temporary Road Crossings Issued 12/15/2021
TEXAS EASTERN TRANS LP 2021 Integrity Program Fayette County 9 DIG-0349 BWM-GP-11 Maintenance, Testing, Repair, Rehabilitation or Replacement General Pmt Issued on 12/15/2021
CHESTNUT VALLEY LDFL Landfill Permit Renewal
APOLLO RESOURCES LLC/RUMBAUGH STA AQ GP 5 - Natural Gas Compression and/or Processing Facilities
GANS POWER STATION Major Facility Plan Approval New Source Performance Std
GANS POWER STATION Major Facility Operating Permit Amendment Issued 1/6/2022

Notes




Source: Pennsylvania Bulletin

NOTICES
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY REVIEW COMMISSION
Notice of Comments Issued
[51 Pa.B. 7384]
[Saturday, November 27, 2021]

 Section 5(g) of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5(g)) provides that the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (Commission) may issue comments within 30 days of the close of the public comment period. The Commission comments are based upon the criteria contained in section 5.2 of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5b).

 The Commission has issued comments on the following proposed regulation. The agency must consider these comments in preparing the final-form regulation. The final-form regulation must be submitted within 2 years of the close of the public comment period or it will be deemed withdrawn.
Reg. No.     Agency/Title    Close of the Public
Comment Period    IRRC
Comments
Issued
7-561     Environmental Quality Board Additional RACT Requirements for Major Sources of NOx and VOCs for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS
51 Pa.B. 4333 (August 7, 2021)     10/12/21     11/12/21


Environmental Quality Board Regulation # 7-561 (IRRC # 3310)
Additional RACT Requirements for Major Sources of NOx and VOCs for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS
November 12, 2021

 We submit for your consideration the following comments on the proposed rulemaking published in the August 7, 2021 Pennsylvania Bulletin. Our comments are based on criteria in Section 5.2 of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5b). Section 5.1(a) of the Regulatory Review Act (71 P.S. § 745.5a(a)) directs the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) to respond to all comments received from us or any other source.
<http://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pabull?file=/secure/pabulletin/data/vol51/51-48/1969.html>
The comment itself is quite lengthy. Please use the link above to read.

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THE GOVERNOR
[51 Pa.B. 7405]
[Saturday, December 4, 2021]
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
[ 4 PA. CODE CH. 5 ]
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER 2021-07 ]
Environmental Justice

October 28, 2021

 Whereas, Article 1, Section 27 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA), provides that the ''people have a right to clean air, pure water, and the preservation of the natural, scenic historic and esthetic values of the environment''; and

 Whereas, the people's rights under the Pennsylvania Constitution are guaranteed regardless of race, ethnicity, color, natural origin, or income; and

 Whereas, the Commonwealth must ensure the rights and duties of Article I, Section 27 protect all the people of Pennsylvania, including generations yet to come; and

 Whereas, all Pennsylvanians should be able to live in and enjoy a clean and healthy environment, that includes outdoor spaces, access to clean energy resources, accessible public lands, and public natural resources; and

 Whereas, historically and currently, low-income communities and communities of color bear a disproportionate share of adverse climate and environmental impacts with accompanying adverse health impacts; and

 Whereas, all Pennsylvanians are entitled to fair and equitable treatment and meaningful involvement in decision-making that affects their environment, communities, homes, livelihoods, and health; and

 Whereas, meaningful public participation in the Commonwealth's environmental decision-making is necessary to reduce adverse impacts on low-income residents, communities of color, and vulnerable residents; and

 Whereas, the Commonwealth has acknowledged the importance of Environmental Justice and, in 1999, developed a statewide Environmental Justice Work Group that produced the Environmental Justice Work Group Report, with recommendations carried out through the development of an Environmental Justice Advisory Board and an Office of Environmental Justice within the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to address Environmental Justice issues; and

 Whereas, the Federal government has underscored the significance of Environmental Justice in Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, and prioritized Environmental Justice through actions such as development of a White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council, creation of a geospatial Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool and maps and direction that 40 percent of Federal investments benefit disadvantaged communities.

 Now, Therefore, I, Tom Wolf, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and other laws, do order and direct:

[Excerpt:]
§ 5.1032. Office of Environmental Justice.

 (a) Establishment. The Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) is established within the Department of Environmental Protection.

 (1) Director. The OEJ is headed by the Director who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Secretary.

 (b) Responsibilities.

 (1) The OEJ shall make recommendations to the Secretary on the integration of environmental justice considerations throughout DEP's programs, regulations, policies and procedures, strengthening partnerships on environmental justice among Federal, State and local government agencies and enhancing research and assessment approaches to environmental justice; coordinate the Environmental Justice Interagency Council (EJIC); and staff the Environmental Justice Advisory Board (EJAB).

 (2) The OEJ may establish an online repository of environmental justice information and data.

 (3) The OEJ may establish an environmental justice mapping tool to examine environmental and health impacts on vulnerable communities in this Commonwealth with additional data provided by other agencies at the request of the OEJ.

 (4) The OEJ shall work with other DEP program offices to identify economic development opportunities, environmental benefits and funding opportunities that do, or should, consider environmental justice in the grant awarding process.

 (5) The OEJ shall develop and publish an environmental justice strategic plan (EJ Plan) every 5 years. The EJ Plan should include recommendations for advancing environmental justice, focusing attention on the environmental and public health issues and challenges confronting the Commonwealth's minority and low-income populations. The plan should also make recommendations on the integration of environmental justice considerations into existing DEP programs.

 (6) The OEJ, in consultation with the EJAB, EJIC and other stakeholders, shall develop, subject to public participation requirements, a revised comprehensive environmental justice policy consistent with existing legal authority, that may include, but is not limited to the following:

 (i) Develop a comprehensive Statewide definition of ''environmental justice area,'' ''cumulative environmental impacts'' and ''disproportionate environmental impacts.''

 (ii) Establish criteria for environmental justice areas.

 (iii) Develop an enhanced public participation plan for environmental justice areas potentially affected by development projects, brownfield remediation, industrial operations and commercial facilities resources, that includes outreach activities that enhance public participation opportunities in environmental justice areas, includes a plan for communicating in multiple languages, includes guidelines for scheduling public meetings at locations and times convenient for neighborhood stakeholders, and which may also include resources for expert consultation.

 (iv) Identify economic development opportunities, environmental benefits and other discretionary funding programs that do, or appropriately should, consider the needs of an environmental justice population in the grant process.

 (v) Develop standardized mitigation or restoration practices, or both, for consideration by applicants and permit application reviewers in the permitting or cleanup context.
<http://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pabull?file=/secure/pabulletin/data/vol51/51-49/1978.html>

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PROPOSED RULEMAKING
DELAWARE RIVER
BASIN COMMISSION
[ 25 PA. CODE CHS. 901 AND 903 ]
Importations of Water into and Exportations of Water from the Delaware River Basin; Discharges of Wastewater from High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing and Related Activities
[51 Pa.B. 7471]
[Saturday, December 4, 2021]

 Summary: The Commission will hold public hearings and accept written comment on a proposal to amend its Comprehensive Plan and Water Code concerning importations of water into and exportations of water from the Delaware River Basin; to amend its Special Regulations—High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing to prohibit the discharge of wastewater from high volume hydraulic fracturing and related activities to waters or land within the Delaware River Basin; and to incorporate key elements of the latter proposed amendments into the Commission's Water Quality Regulations.

Dates:

 Written comments: Written comments will be accepted through 5 p.m. on February 28, 2022.

 Public hearings: Public hearings will be held remotely via Zoom on the following dates at the noted times. Details about accessing the hearings are available on the Commission's website, www.drbc.gov.

 1. December 8, 2021, 2:30 p.m. to no later than 4:30 p.m.

 2. December 8, 2021, 6:30 p.m. to no later than 8:30 p.m.

 3. December 15, 2021, 1 p.m. to no later than 3 p.m.

 4. December 15, 2021, 4 p.m. to no later than 6 p.m.

 On October 28, 2021, a notice including these public hearing dates, times and locations was posted on the Commission's website and circulated directly to Commission notice subscribers interested in this subject matter. Members of the public may sign up through the Commission's website to receive direct notice via email of additions or changes to the information provided above.

Addresses:

 To submit written comments: Written comments will be accepted until 5 p.m. on February 28, 2022 through the Commission's online public comment collection system at: https://dockets.drbc.commentinput.com/?id=x2K8A. To request an exception from use of the online system based on lack of access to the Internet, please contact: Commission Secretary, DRBC, P.O. Box 7360, West Trenton, NJ 08628.

 To register to speak at public hearings: Although attendance at the hearings is not limited and requires no registration, those who wish to provide oral comment at a hearing must register in advance to do so. Registration will be through EventBrite. Links to EventBrite for each of the public hearing dates and times are posted at www.drbc.gov. Online registration will remain open until 5 p.m. on the day prior to the hearing date or until all available speaking slots have been filled, whichever is earlier. Each person who wishes to provide oral comment may do so at only one public hearing. Registrations will be monitored, and if capacity is not adequate to accommodate all who wish to speak, additional opportunities may be added.

 See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for details regarding the substance of written comments.

 For Further Information Contact: For information regarding the public hearings and submission of written comments, contact Kate Schmidt, Communications Specialist, at kate.schmidt@drbc.gov (preferred) or 609-883-9500, ext. 205. For information concerning the proposed amendments, contact Pamela Bush, Commission Secretary and Assistant General Counsel, at pam.bush@drbc.gov (preferred) or 609-477-7203.

 Supplementary Information: The Delaware River Basin Commission (''DRBC'' or ''Commission'') is a regional interstate and federal agency formed by compact legislation of four states and the United States in 19611 to manage the water resources of the Delaware River Basin (the ''Basin'') without regard to political boundaries. Its members are, ex officio, the governors of the Basin states (Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) and the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division, who represents the United States.
<http://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pabull?file=/secure/pabulletin/data/vol51/51-49/1997.html>
For the text of the proposal please use the link above.

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 26-00588B: Laurel Mountain Midstream Operating, LLC, 2000 Commerce Dr., Park Place Center 2, Pittsburgh, PA 15275-1026. Extension effective November 28, 2021, to extend the period of installation and continued temporary operation of three (3) compressor engines, two (2) gas-fired turbines, one (1) emergency generator, two (2) dehydrators, two (2) reboilers, one (1) glycol processing unit, and five (5) produced water storage tanks authorized under plan approval PA-26-00588B, until May 28, 2022, at Shamrock Compressor Station located in German Township, Fayette County.
<http://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pabull?file=/secure/pabulletin/data/vol51/51-50/2069c.html&continued=http://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pabull?file=/secure/pabulletin/data/vol51/51-50/2069.html&d=reduce>


Parcel ID: 15140026

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Notes:

The application above for the Siegel Well Pad is a Notification. The most frequent type of Notification application for "old" well permits is a Termination Notification, in which the driller asserts to DEP that it is "finished" disturbing earth for a well pad. In order for DEP to issue this permit, apparently the normal procedure is for there to be a termination inspection of the well pad. Unfortunately, we can't really be certain for these eFACTS entries that a Notification application is for Termination, since DEP does not publish the application (e.g. by requiring them to be submitted electronically.) An earlier application for the Siegel Well Pad was actually denied! (Denials are very very very rare.)

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The Project Description for the 2021 Integrity Program Fayette County 9 project includes the following introduction:

"During recent integrity inspections conducted as part of a maintenance program, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern or TETLP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. (Enbridge), identified anomalies along existing transmission pipelines extending from Delmont, Pennsylvania (PA) to the PA/New Jersey border and southwest to the PA/West Virginia border. These identified anomaly locations must be excavated to determine the nature of the anomalies and to determine if repair or replacement is necessary. The proposed program includes anomaly excavations and repairs throughout PA.

Construction activities associated with this maintenance program may entail temporary impact to regulated wetlands and watercourses. Due to the location of the anomalies within existing pipeline right-of-ways (ROWs), avoidance of resource impacts is not always possible. In the design of the maintenance program, Texas Eastern attempted to minimize these and other environmental impacts to the greatest extent practicable. The proposed construction activities associated with the repair and replacement of Dig 0349 will be conducted on a 36-inch pipe at an existing railroad crossing and adjacent additional new ROW that is surrounded primarily by mixed forest land use in Fayette County."

The phrase "identified anomalies" probably refers to corrosion discovered by use of a device known as a "Smart Pig".

The full project description is fairly extensive and worth reading.

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DEP defines an environmental justice area as "any census tract where 20 percent or more individuals live in poverty, and/or 30 percent or more of the population is minority". (See:
<https://www.dep.pa.gov/PublicParticipation/OfficeofEnvironmentalJustice/Pages/default.aspx>). There are supposed to be enhanced public participation requirements for permits in environmental justice areas, but news of this actually ever happening is scarce. In Fayette County, the entirety of Redstone, Springhill, Nicholson, and German Townships are environmental justice areas, as well as a large part of Dunbar Township. DEP's policy document on public participation guidelines for environmental justice areas is located here:
<https://www.elibrary.dep.state.pa.us/dsweb/Get/Version-48671/012-0501-002.pdf>

eNOTICE records are likely to list the same permit multiple times, as that permit moves through the DEP process.

Oil & Gas Wells designated with a site a number and the letter H typically designate horizontal wells.

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Resources:

Pennsylvania Bulletin: <https://www.pabulletin.com/>

eNOTICE: <https://www.ahs2.dep.state.pa.us/eNOTICEWeb/>

DEP Oil and Gas Reports: <https://www.dep.pa.gov/DataandTools/Reports/Oil%20and%20Gas%20Reports/Pages/default.aspx>

DEP Permits Issued Detail Report:
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Permits_Issued_Detail>

DEP SPUD (drilling started) Report:
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Spud_External_Data>

DEP Oil and Gas Compliance Report:
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/OG_Compliance>

DEP PA Oil & Gas Mapping:
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/PaOilAndGasMapping>

Data Portal Services Directory [Technical]
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/arcgis/rest/services>
Query: Oil and Gas Wells All (ID: 3) [Technical]:
<https://www.depgis.state.pa.us/arcgis/rest/services/OilGas/OilGasAllStrayGasEGSP/MapServer/3/query?where=&text=&objectIds=&time=&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&relationParam=&outFields=*&returnGeometry=true&returnTrueCurves=false&maxAllowableOffset=&geometryPrecision=&outSR=&returnIdsOnly=false&returnCountOnly=false&orderByFields=&groupByFieldsForStatistics=&outStatistics=&returnZ=false&returnM=false&gdbVersion=&returnDistinctValues=false&resultOffset=&resultRecordCount=&f=html>
(Be sure to enter a Where clause in SQL format. Dates are in milliseconds since midnight 1/1/1970).

DEP Oil and Gas Electronic Submissions
<https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eSubmissionPublicSearch>

DEP Air Quality Air Emission Plants Facilities Report
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/AQ/SSRS/AQ_AEP_Facilities>

DEP Oil and Gas Electronic Notifications
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/OG_Notifications>

DEP Oil and Gas Well Pad Report
<http://cedatareporting.pa.gov/Reportserver/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/Public/DEP/OG/SSRS/Well_Pads>

Fayette County Assessment Office Search For Tax Records:
<http://property.co.fayette.pa.us/search.aspx>

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access:
<https://www.pasda.psu.edu/default.asp>
DEP Spatial Data Repository:
<ftp://www.pasda.psu.edu/pub/pasda/dep/>

National Response Center:
<https://www.nrc.uscg.mil/>

EPA-Echo: <https://www.epa-echo.gov/echo/compliance_report_air.html>

FERC citizen involvement: <https://www.ferc.gov/for-citizens/get-involved.asp>

Follow the directions and enter the docket number to subscribe to.

Township  Supervisors receive information regarding Erosion & Sedimentation permits, and these records may be reviewable at township municipal offices.

DEP permits are reviewable through the File Review process, for application to do file review see: <https://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/southwest_regional_office/13775/file_review/593164>

Environmental Hearing Board: <https://ehb.courtapps.com/public/index.php>

PA DEP Environmental Policy Comment System:
<https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/eComment/>

Federal Register Environment: <https://www.federalregister.gov/environment>

SkyTruth Fayette County Drilling Alerts: <https://frack.skytruth.org/pennsylvania-frack-alerts/fayette_pa>

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, Public Notices:
<https://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Public-Notices/>

EPA Pennsylvania Public Notices: <https://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-pennsylvania#notice>

Energy Assurance Daily: <https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ead.aspx>

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Disclaimers:

This compilation from the above sources was done in part by hand using copy and paste and in part using automated methods; it may omit relevant permits.

Parcel data is provided via the tax records search web page offered by the Fayette County Assessment Office (http://property.co.fayette.pa.us/). Presumed Parcel Id links are subject to availability provided by that agency and associated web sites. Presumed Parcel Ids are determined as the mapped parcel containing a given latitude and longitude, are a best effort determination which is subject to error, and are not official. In cases where a facility is leased and there is a separate parcel id for the lease, if this parcel id is not separately mapped, the parcel id shown will be the id for the enclosing parcel. Parcel owners may be surface owners only and may or may not have any relationship to oil & gas facilities.

Does not currently include water supply permits. Does not include landfill permits even though many such are for Marcellus Shale waste. (It is not possible at this time to distinguish which landfill permits are for Marcellus Shale waste and which are not without doing File Review for each permit.)

Erosion & Sedimentation permit records do not currently include latitude and longitude. Where I am publishing latitude and longitude with E&S permits it is by inferring an associated well permit and using published latitude and longitude for the well. It is possible I may be inferring the wrong well site.

Municipalities are shown from eFACTS records on the DEP web site. The DEP has been known to list a municipality incorrectly.