TO: Reviewers
of MWRAĠs Cottage Farm CSO Facility Assessment Report
MA Department of Environmental ProtectionĠs Variance
on
MWRAĠs CSO Control Plan for the Lower Charles River
Basin
FROM: Stephanie
Moura, Project Manager, MWRA
Jeffrey
McLaughlin, Community Relations Coordinator, MWRA
DATE: April
20, 2004
SUBJECT: Extension
of MEPA Public Comment Period
Massachusetts Water Resources
Authority (MWRA) wishes to inform all reviewers of the Cottage Farm CSO
Facility Assessment Report and other interested parties that the MEPA Office of
the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs has extended the public comment
period for this report by one month, at MWRAĠs request. With the extension, public comments
on the report must be received by the MEPA Office no later than Monday, May 24,
2004.
MWRA filed the Cottage Farm
Report with the MEPA Office on January 15, 2004, to provide information
integral to a water quality standards determination that the MA Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP) is scheduled to make later this year for the
Charles River Basin. At the time
of filing, MWRA requested and was granted a 90-day comment period, ending on
April 23. On April 8, DEP and MWRA
conducted a public meeting on the report and on the Charles River CSO variance
and water quality standards decision process. Attendees at the public meeting requested that additional
time be provided for public review, and MWRA agreed to seek a one-month
extension with DEPĠs support. The
extension has since been requested by MWRA and granted by the MEPA Office.
Written comments
may be submitted to the MEPA Office electronically, by mail, via FAX, or by
hand delivery. The mailing address
for comments is:
Secretary Ellen
Roy Herzfelder
EOEA, Attn: MEPA Office
Nicholas Zavolas, EOEA No. 10335
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 900
Boston MA 02114
For more information about
the Cottage Farm CSO Facility Assessment Report or MWRAĠs CSO control plan for
the Charles River Basin, please contact Stephanie Moura (617-788-4399) at MWRA.