EPA is
soliciting public comments on proposed Total
Maximum Daily Loads for Lost River by June 15,
2007
March 16, 2007
EPA is
soliciting public comments on proposed Total
Maximum Daily Loads
(TMDLs) for Nitrogen and Biochemical Oxygen
Demand (BOD) for several water bodies in the
Lost River watershed in California. (Please
see public notice below.) EPA is establishing
these Lost River TMDLs because California will
not be completing TMDLs by the schedule
prescribed under a consent decree.
The deadline for submitting comments on these
draft TMDLs is on or before June 15, 2007.
Comments may be mailed, faxed or emailed
(please send a hard copy of your comments in
additional to emailing them).
Contact information for submitting comments:
Gail Louis (louis.gail@epa.gov) U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne
Street (WTR-3) San Francisco, CA 94105 (415)
972-3467 Fax (415)947-3537
For further information about these TMDLs,
including copies of the Public Draft TMDL
document and technical support documents,
please see EPA's website at: http://www.epa.gov/region09/water/tmdl/progress.html
Attached is a copy of the Public Notice which
ran in today's Klamath Falls Herald and News.
UNITED
STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
REGION IX
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Notice of Availability for Public Review
Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for Nitrogen
and Biochemical Oxygen Demand to address
Dissolved Oxygen and pH Impairments in the
Lost River watershed in California
March 15, 2007 Release
PURPOSE OF NOTICE
The United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is soliciting public comments on
proposed Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for
nitrogen and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
for several water bodies in the Lost River
watershed. Comments for the record must be
submitted in writing on or before June 15,
2007 to the address below to be considered in
the final decision.
COPIES AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Copies of the proposed nitrogen and BOD TMDLs
and related Technical Support Documents are
available for public review. Written copies
will be available at the North Coast Regional
Water Quality Board offices in Santa Rosa, EPA
Region 9 Offices in San Francisco, or by
contacting Gail Louis by phone at (415)
972-3467 or by email louis.gail@epa.gov. The
documents are also available on the EPA web
site (http://www.epa.gov/region09/water/tmdl/progress.html).
Comments should be submitted in writing, on or
before June 15, 2007, to the following
address:
Gail Louis
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
75 Hawthorne Street (WTR-3)
San Francisco, CA 94105
fax: 415-947-3537
Comments may also be emailed to louis.gail@epa.gov
and followed up by a mailed hard copy. EPA
will prepare a responsiveness summary that
demonstrates how public comments were
considered in the final TMDL decisions. The
responsiveness document will be available
after the TMDLs are established.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act requires
states to identify water bodies that do not
meet water quality standards and then to
establish TMDLs for each water body for each
pollutant of concern. TMDLs identify the
maximum amount of pollutants that can be
discharged to water bodies without causing
violations of water quality standards. Several
reaches of and water bodies in the Lost River
watershed, downstream of Anderson-Rose Dam,
are included on the State of California’s
Section 303(d) list of polluted waters due to
water quality impacts associated with nutrient
discharges, resulting in low dissolved oxygen
and high pH levels. This area is sometimes
referred to as the “Lower Lost River.” EPA
will establish TMDLs for nitrogen and
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) for waters in
this Lost River watershed in California by
December 31, 2007 because of deadlines under a
consent decree (Pacific Coast Federation of
Fishermen’s Associations, et al. v. Marcus,
No. 9504474 MHP, 11 March 1997), and because
the State of California will not be adopting
TMDLs for the Lost River by this deadline. |