[Federal Register: October 8, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 196)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8726-9]
Clean Water Act Section 303(d): Final Agency Action on 30 Total
Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) in Louisiana
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces final agency action on 30 TMDLs prepared
by EPA Region 6 for waters listed in Louisiana's Terrebonne River
Basin, under section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Documents
from the administrative record file for the 30 TMDLs, including TMDL
calculations and responses to comments, may be
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viewed at http://www.epa.gov/region6/water/npdes/tmdl/index.htm. The
administrative record file may be examined by calling or writing Ms.
Diane Smith at the address below. Please contact Ms. Smith to schedule
an inspection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Smith, Environmental Protection
Specialist, Water Quality Protection Division, U.S. EPA Region 6, 1445
Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202-2733, (214) 665-2145.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1996, two Louisiana environmental groups,
the Sierra Club and Louisiana Environmental Action Network
(plaintiffs), filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the EPA, styled
Sierra Club, et al. v. Clifford et al., No. 96-0527, (E.D. La.). Among
other claims, plaintiffs alleged that EPA failed to establish Louisiana
TMDLs in a timely manner.
EPA Takes Final Agency Action on 30 TMDLs
By this notice EPA is taking final agency action on the following
30 TMDLs for waters located within the Terrebonne River basin:
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Subsegment Waterbody name Pollutant
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120102..................... Bayou Poydras...... Dissolved Oxygen
and Nutrients.
120103..................... Bayou Choctaw...... Dissolved Oxygen,
Nutrients,
Nitrogen, and
Phosphorus.
120105..................... Chamberlin Canal... Dissolved Oxygen,
Nutrients,
Nitrogen, and
Phosphorus.
120106..................... Bayou Plaquemine... Dissolved Oxygen
and Nutrients.
120107..................... Upper Grand River Dissolved Oxygen
and Lower Flat
River--Headwaters
to Intracoastal
Waterway.
120109..................... Intracoastal Dissolved Oxygen and
Waterway--in Morgan Nutrients
City to Port Allen
Route--Port Allen
Locks to Bayou
Sorrel Locks.
120110..................... Bayou Cholpe-- Dissolved Oxygen.
Headwaters to Bayou
Choctaw.
120202..................... Bayou Black-- Dissolved Oxygen
Intracoastal and Nutrients.
Waterway to Houma.
120204..................... Lake Verret and Dissolved Oxygen
Grassy Lake. and Nutrients.
120304..................... Intracoastal Dissolved Oxygen
Waterway--Houma to and Nutrients.
Larose.
120403..................... Intracoastal Dissolved Oxygen.
Waterway--Bayou
Boeuf.
120604..................... Bayou Blue-- Dissolved Oxygen.
Intracoastal
Waterway to
boundary between
segments 1206 and
1207.
120401..................... Bayou Penchant-- Dissolved Oxygen.
Bayou Chene to Lake
Penchant.
120404..................... Lake Penchant...... Dissolved Oxygen.
120405..................... Lake Hatch and Lake Dissolved Oxygen
Theriot. and Nutrients.
120406..................... Lake de Cade....... Dissolved Oxygen
and Nutrients.
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EPA requested the public to provide EPA with any significant data
or information that might impact the 30 Final TMDLs in the Federal
Register Notice: Volume 73, Number 167, pages 50610 and 50611 (August
27, 2008). The comments which were received, the EPA's response to
comments, and the final TMDLs may be found at http://www.epa.gov/
region6/water/npdes/tmdl/index.htm.
Dated: September 30, 2008.
William K. Honker,
Deputy Director, Water Quality Protection Division, EPA Region 6.
[FR Doc. E8-23868 Filed 10-7-08; 8:45 am]
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