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North Carolina Waters Along the Entire
Length of New Hanover County No
Discharge Zone Determination
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The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), Region 4, concurs with the
determination of the North Carolina
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR), Division of Water
Quality (DWQ) that adequate and
reasonably available pumpout facilities
exist for the designation of New
Hanover County North Carolina Coastal
Waters as a No Discharge Zone (NDZ).
Specifically these waters extend three
nautical miles (nm) into the Atlantic
Ocean along the entire length of New
Hanover County, including Futch Creek,
Pages Creek, Bradley Creek, Hewlett’s
Creek, Howe Creek, Whiskey Creek,
Snow’s Cut, as well as unnamed
tributaries and all unnamed tidal creeks
to those waters.
The geographic description including
latitudes and longitudes are as follows:
Northern border of New Hanover
County with southern border of Pender
County (34°17′53.5″ N 77°42′32.2″ W),
to a point 3 nm off the coast at the
intersection of New Hanover and Pender
Counties (34°16′01.9″ N 77°40′20.5″ W).
Intersection of the southern tip of
New Hanover County with Brunswick
County at the Cape Fear River
(33°55′43.0″ N 77°56′13.6″ W),
southeastward along the extended
intersection of the two counties, 3 nm
into the Atlantic Ocean (33°53′07.5″ N
77°55′34.5″ W).
This petition was filed pursuant to the
Clean Water Act, Section 312(f)(3),
Public Law 92–500 as amended by
Public Law 95–217 and Public Law
100–4. A NDZ is defined as a body of
water in which the discharge of vessel
sewage, both treated and untreated, is
prohibited.
Section 312(f)(3) states:
After the effective date of the initial
standards and regulations promulgated under
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this section, if any State determines that the
protection and enhancement of the quality of
some or all of the waters within such States
require greater environmental protection,
such State may completely prohibit the
discharge from all vessels of any sewage,
whether treated or not, into such waters,
except that no such prohibition shall apply
until the Administrator determines that
adequate facilities for the safe and sanitary
removal and treatment of sewage from all
vessels are reasonably available for such
water to which such prohibition would
apply.
According to DENR DWQ the
following facilities are located in New
Hanover County for pumping out vessel
holding tanks:
(1) Carolina Beach Municipal Marina,
Carolina Beach, 910–458–2540, open
24/7, 6′ draft at mean low tide
(2) Carolina Beach State Park Marina,
Carolina Beach State Park, Carolina
Beach, 910–458–7770, 8 a.m.–5:45 p.m.,
7 days/week, 6′ draft at mean low tide
(3) Federal Point Yacht Club, 910
Basin Road, Carolina Beach, 910–458–
4511, only available to club members, 5′
draft at mean low tide
(4) Mona Black Marina, Carolina
Beach, 910–458–0575, open 24/7, 20′
draft at mean low tide
(5) Joyner Marina, Carolina Beach,
910–458–5053, open 7 a.m.–6 p.m., 7
days per week, 6′ draft at mean low tide
(6) Bridge Tender Marina, City of
Wilmington, 910–256–6550, 7 a.m.–8
p.m., 7 days/week, 10′ draft at mean low
tide
(7) Creekside Yacht Club, City of
Wilmington, 910–350–0023,
Operational December 2009, 4′ draft at
mean low tide
(8) Sea Path Yacht Club, Town of
Wrightsville Beach, 910–256–3747, 7
a.m.–7 p.m., 7 days/week, 10′ draft at
mean low tide
(9) Wrightsville, Beach Marina &
Transient Dock, Town of Wrightsville
Beach, 910–256–6666, 7 a.m.–7 p.m., 7
days/week, 12′ draft at mean low tide
Two Marinas that are located within
7 nautical miles of the proposed NDZ
are:
(A) Wilmington Marine Center, 910–
395–5055, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. 7 days/week, 7′
draft at mean low tide
(B) Bald Head Island Marina, 910–
457–7380, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 7 days/
week, 8′ draft at mean low tide
The total vessel population for New
Hanover County as of August 5, 2008
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was 13,940. This number reflects active
vessel registrations and was obtained
from the North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission. During the
period of 2006 to 2008, the total number
of active registered vessels increased
nearly 15%. The result is that there are
nearly 1,800 more pleasure boats in the
area waters today than just two years
ago, with the largest increase occurring
in boats between 16′ and 25′ in length.
It is recognized that only a percentage
of the vessels in the coastal waters of
New Hanover County are equipped with
a Marine Sanitation Device (MSD). To
estimate the number of MSDs in use,
percentages obtained from EPA (Region
2) were applied, and are listed below:
Boat Length
<16′ ...........................................
16′–25′ ......................................
26′–40′ ......................................
>40′ ...........................................
Percent with
MSDs
8.3
10.6
78.5
82.6
This yields an estimated 2,046 MSDs
in use by registered boats within New
Hanover County.
Through the use of a marina survey,
the number of transient boats serviced
by marinas in New Hanover County was
calculated to be approximately 180 per
month. This figure was arrived at by
using the peak season transient boat
figures from each marina. Using the
figures for both county and transient
boats, the total number of MSDs in the
New Hanover County waters is
estimated to be 2,194. There are 9
marinas within New Hanover County
and this yields a ratio of about 244 boats
per pumpout facility. This figure does
not include the two marinas that are
located within 7 nautical miles of this
proposed NDZ area.
All vessel pumpout facilities that are
described either discharge into State
approved and regulated septic tanks or
State approved on site waste treatment
plant, or the waste is collected into a
large holding tank for transport to a
sewage treatment plant. Thus all vessel
sewage will be treated to meet existing
standards for secondary treatment.
Comments regarding this proposed
action should be addressed to David
Parker, Chief, Coastal Section, EPA
Region 4, Water Protection Division, 61
Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303–
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proposed action will be accepted until
September 23, 2009.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
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Request for Information Relevant to
the Regionalization of Emergency
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AGENCY: Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of the Secretary.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This is a time-sensitive
Request for Information (RFI) issued by
the Emergency Care Coordination
Center in the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Preparedness and
Response on behalf of the Council on
Emergency Medical Care (CEMC) and
the Federal Interagency Committee on
Emergency Medical Services
(FICEMS)—collectively known as the
Emergency Care Enterprise (ECE). The
information requested is meant to
ascertain key concepts, best practices,
and operational approaches to support
regionalized, comprehensive and
accountable emergency care and trauma
systems. The information will be
analyzed by the ECCC to help guide the
development of demonstration programs
that design and evaluate innovative
models of regionalized, coordinated and
accountable emergency care and trauma
systems.
ADDRESSES: Responses to this RFI may
be submitted electronically to
eccc@hhs.gov by COB September 30th
2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information on this RFI or the
Emergency Care Coordination Center
(ECCC), please contact Melicia Seay,
Program Analyst, by e-mail at
melicia.seay@hhs.gov or by phone at
202–260–1383.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Emergency Care Coordination Center
(ECCC) was created in order to: (1) Lead
an enterprise to promote and fund
research in emergency medicine and
trauma health care, (2) promote regional
partnerships and more effective
emergency medical systems in order to
enhance appropriate triage, distribution,
and care of routine community patients,
and (3) promote local, regional, and
State emergency medical systems’
preparedness for and response to public
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health events. The office addresses the
full spectrum of issues that have impact
on care in hospital emergency
departments, encompassing the
complete continuum of patient care
from the pre-hospital environment to
disposition from emergency or trauma
care. The Office coordinates with
existing executive departments and
agencies that perform functions relating
to emergency medical systems in order
to ensure unified strategy, policy, and
implementation.
The issue of regionalization is one of
great interest across academic and
clinical communities and is frequently
touted as a potential solution to
healthcare reform. The Future of
Emergency Care reports published by
the Institute of Medicine in 2006
recommended the establishment of a
demonstration program to promote
coordinated, regionalized, and
accountable emergency care delivery
systems. As demonstrated by existing
systems for trauma, cardiac arrest, and
stroke patients, regionalized emergency
care systems help get the right patients
to the right hospitals in the right amount
of time, improve patient outcomes, and
reduce costs. These systems typically
require careful coordination amongst 9–
1–1 dispatch, pre-hospital emergency
medical services, EMS system medical
direction, categorization/designation of
medical facilities, interfacility transfer
protocols, data collection/analysis, and
ongoing system-wide quality
improvement.
Yet regionalization of emergency care
remains poorly defined and often
misunderstood, with competing
definitions, a variety of organizational
and financial structures, and a lack of
understanding regarding the
implementation, evaluation, feasibility,
and long term consequences of regional
emergency care. Even amongst the State
Trauma Systems, for instance, there is
wide-scale variability in terms of
resourcing mechanisms, support levels,
functionality, and systems-wide
interoperability. While some states have
data mechanisms in place to monitor
emergency care system status including
medical facility bed availability and
patient tracking, these systems vary in
terms of management, sophistication
and purpose, often collecting and
reporting different data without uniform
data definitions or agreement on which
data should be collected.
The ECCC, in coordination with the
CEMC and FICEMS, aims to
demonstrate model systems for
Emergency Care through the
development of regionalization
demonstration projects that will provide
information and lessons learned while
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generating guidance for the nationwide
deployment of regionalized and
accountable emergency care delivery
systems.
Issues on Which Information Is
Requested
The ECCC seeks input regarding
regionalization of emergency care, with
a focus on identification of the
challenges and opportunities that could
be addressed through federally funded
national demonstration projects. The
scope of emergency care being
considered is defined as beginning with
an event, disease, or condition that
causes an individual to seek care
through EMS or in an ED setting and
ending with departure from the ED
(either by admission to another hospital
department, through discharge from the
ED, or via transfer to another hospital).
We welcome your comments, research
findings, and/or practical experience on
the following topics that can be used
both to enhance our knowledge of
regional emergency care networks and
to help formulate guidance and
strategies for potential Federal programs
to develop regional emergency care
systems. Please provide concise
responses in the context of
regionalization to any or all of the
following topics.
A. Existing Models. Please describe
existing trauma or EMS regions in terms
of characteristics such as: overall
structure and organization, boundaries
and geography, governance or oversight
mechanisms and authorities, triagetransfer protocols, sustained financial
support and provider reimbursement,
data collection procedures, resource
tracking, and communication/
coordination of relationships amongst
State leadership, 9–1–1 services and/or
EMS system medical direction,
individual regions, etc. If desired,
include opinions regarding the overall
functioning and effectiveness of existing
systems.
B. Analysis of Current Practices in
Regionalized Clinical Care. Whether at
the local, State, or inter-State level,
please provide suggestions and
justifications as to which existing
systems or specific elements of
regionalized care models specifically
merit further investigation,
development, or targeted alteration and
which clinical conditions are most
suitable to regionalized care delivery.
Please provide specific evidence where
available and applicable.
C. Communications Infrastructure.
Please provide information on
appropriate data elements that should
be incorporated within regionalization
systems to provide for situational
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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North Carolina Waters Along the Entire Length of New Hanover
County No Discharge Zone Determination
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4, concurs with
the determination of the North Carolina Department of Environment and
Natural Resources (DENR), Division of Water Quality (DWQ) that adequate
and reasonably available pumpout facilities exist for the designation
of New Hanover County North Carolina Coastal Waters as a No Discharge
Zone (NDZ). Specifically these waters extend three nautical miles (nm)
into the Atlantic Ocean along the entire length of New Hanover County,
including Futch Creek, Pages Creek, Bradley Creek, Hewlett's Creek,
Howe Creek, Whiskey Creek, Snow's Cut, as well as unnamed tributaries
and all unnamed tidal creeks to those waters.
The geographic description including latitudes and longitudes are
as follows: Northern border of New Hanover County with southern border
of Pender County (34[deg]17'53.5'' N 77[deg]42'32.2'' W), to a point 3
nm off the coast at the intersection of New Hanover and Pender Counties
(34[deg]16'01.9'' N 77[deg]40'20.5'' W).
Intersection of the southern tip of New Hanover County with
Brunswick County at the Cape Fear River (33[deg]55'43.0'' N
77[deg]56'13.6'' W), southeastward along the extended intersection of
the two counties, 3 nm into the Atlantic Ocean (33[deg]53'07.5'' N
77[deg]55'34.5'' W).
This petition was filed pursuant to the Clean Water Act, Section
312(f)(3), Public Law 92-500 as amended by Public Law 95-217 and Public
Law 100-4. A NDZ is defined as a body of water in which the discharge
of vessel sewage, both treated and untreated, is prohibited.
Section 312(f)(3) states:
After the effective date of the initial standards and
regulations promulgated under this section, if any State determines
that the protection and enhancement of the quality of some or all of
the waters within such States require greater environmental
protection, such State may completely prohibit the discharge from
all vessels of any sewage, whether treated or not, into such waters,
except that no such prohibition shall apply until the Administrator
determines that adequate facilities for the safe and sanitary
removal and treatment of sewage from all vessels are reasonably
available for such water to which such prohibition would apply.
According to DENR DWQ the following facilities are located in New
Hanover County for pumping out vessel holding tanks:
(1) Carolina Beach Municipal Marina, Carolina Beach, 910-458-2540,
open 24/7, 6' draft at mean low tide
(2) Carolina Beach State Park Marina, Carolina Beach State Park,
Carolina Beach, 910-458-7770, 8 a.m.-5:45 p.m., 7 days/week, 6' draft
at mean low tide
(3) Federal Point Yacht Club, 910 Basin Road, Carolina Beach, 910-
458-4511, only available to club members, 5' draft at mean low tide
(4) Mona Black Marina, Carolina Beach, 910-458-0575, open 24/7, 20'
draft at mean low tide
(5) Joyner Marina, Carolina Beach, 910-458-5053, open 7 a.m.-6
p.m., 7 days per week, 6' draft at mean low tide
(6) Bridge Tender Marina, City of Wilmington, 910-256-6550, 7 a.m.-
8 p.m., 7 days/week, 10' draft at mean low tide
(7) Creekside Yacht Club, City of Wilmington, 910-350-0023,
Operational December 2009, 4' draft at mean low tide
(8) Sea Path Yacht Club, Town of Wrightsville Beach, 910-256-3747,
7 a.m.-7 p.m., 7 days/week, 10' draft at mean low tide
(9) Wrightsville, Beach Marina & Transient Dock, Town of
Wrightsville Beach, 910-256-6666, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., 7 days/week, 12' draft
at mean low tide
Two Marinas that are located within 7 nautical miles of the
proposed NDZ are:
(A) Wilmington Marine Center, 910-395-5055, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 7 days/
week, 7' draft at mean low tide
(B) Bald Head Island Marina, 910-457-7380, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 7
days/week, 8' draft at mean low tide
The total vessel population for New Hanover County as of August 5,
2008 was 13,940. This number reflects active vessel registrations and
was obtained from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
During the period of 2006 to 2008, the total number of active
registered vessels increased nearly 15%. The result is that there are
nearly 1,800 more pleasure boats in the area waters today than just two
years ago, with the largest increase occurring in boats between 16' and
25' in length. It is recognized that only a percentage of the vessels
in the coastal waters of New Hanover County are equipped with a Marine
Sanitation Device (MSD). To estimate the number of MSDs in use,
percentages obtained from EPA (Region 2) were applied, and are listed
below:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Percent
Boat Length with MSDs
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<16'....................................................... 8.3
16'-25'.................................................... 10.6
26'-40'.................................................... 78.5
>40'....................................................... 82.6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This yields an estimated 2,046 MSDs in use by registered boats
within New Hanover County.
Through the use of a marina survey, the number of transient boats
serviced by marinas in New Hanover County was calculated to be
approximately 180 per month. This figure was arrived at by using the
peak season transient boat figures from each marina. Using the figures
for both county and transient boats, the total number of MSDs in the
New Hanover County waters is estimated to be 2,194. There are 9 marinas
within New Hanover County and this yields a ratio of about 244 boats
per pumpout facility. This figure does not include the two marinas that
are located within 7 nautical miles of this proposed NDZ area.
All vessel pumpout facilities that are described either discharge
into State approved and regulated septic tanks or State approved on
site waste treatment plant, or the waste is collected into a large
holding tank for transport to a sewage treatment plant. Thus all vessel
sewage will be treated to meet existing standards for secondary
treatment. Comments regarding this proposed action should be addressed
to David Parker, Chief, Coastal Section, EPA Region 4, Water Protection
Division, 61 Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-
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3104. Comments regarding this proposed action will be accepted until
September 23, 2009.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. E9-20288 Filed 8-21-09; 8:45 am]
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