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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In response to requests for copies, we are again
circulating this letter to the list. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Note a typo on the first copy has been corrected.
The date of the letter from Mr. Muszynski of EPA to Puerto Rico Aqueduct and
Sewer Authority is Dec. 4, 1997, not 1999 - big difference. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>EPA is in the process of considering a Clean Water
Act Waiver for the Dorado Waste Water Treatment Plant [WWTP] with coastal
discharge in Puerto Rico. This is a primary WWTP with ocean discharge that is
applying for permits to be constructed 27 years after CWA was passed by
congress. Please sign on the following letter to EPA by Friday,
January 7. Forward your Name, Title, (Org, Company or Academic
Affiliation), and Address to <A
href="mailto:corals@caribe.net">corals@caribe.net</A>. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeanne Fox </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regional Administrator</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>EPA Region II</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>290 Broadway</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>New York, NY, 10007</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>January 7, 2000</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Re: Dorado Regional WWTP Section 301(h)
Application</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Ms. Fox: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> CORALations, a non-profit ocean
conservation organization based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the following
concerned individuals and organizations are writing to ask that you deny the
second round Clean Water Act Waiver [301h] application for the Dorado Waste
Water Treatment Plant [WWTP], a primary plant which has yet to be built 27
years after the Clean Water Act was passed by the U.S.
Congress. Despite opposition expressed at public hearings by the
local community, by the Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association, and by a
number of local conservation organizations and technical experts, the Dorado
WWTP proposal is in the process of obtaining its final Puerto Rico Government
permits before the Government of Puerto Rico submits their second round
Clean Water Act Waiver application to EPA. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> As you know, the Dorado WWTP is
proposed for construction in a coastal flood plain. The diffuser pipe will be
located less than a mile offshore and will terminate at a depth
of just over 100 feet. The plant is being built with the capacity
to discharge up to 30 mgd heavily chlorinated sewage into warm shallow
tropical coastal waters, near coral reef. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> EPA has stated a
firm deadline in writing to Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority
[PRASA] on more than one occasion. In a letter to Mr. Perfecto Ocasio of
PRASA dated December 16, 1998, you wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> EPA, in consultation with PRASA,
identified additional interim dates for the
milestones essential to ensure that PRASA will submit to EPA,
a complete application with all the
required certifications by December 15, 1999.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> In a previous letter from
William J. Muszynski, Deputy Regional Administrator to Benjamin Pomales of
PRASA, dated December 4, 1997, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mr. Muszynski
stated: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Under this one time right to
revise, PRASA should submit, with the letter of
intent, a schedule for the submittal of a complete revised
application within the one year period. No extensions of this
one year period will be allowed. If
PRASA fails to submit all elements of
a complete, revised application by
the end of this period, </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>EPA will lift the stay and proceed to take final action to
deny PRASA's application. Moreover,
if PRASA fails to meet any of the
scheduled dates for submission of
various elements of a complete revised
application during the one year period, EPA may proceed
to take final action to deny
PRASA's application.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> We respectfully ask that
consistent with these previously stated intentions, EPA deny the
second round Clean Water Act Waiver [301h] application for the proposed Dorado
WWTP in Puerto Rico. </FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sincerely, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mary Ann Lucking</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Project Coordinator</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>enc. Dec. 16, 1998 EPA Letter to
PRASA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
Dec. 4, 1997 EPA Letter to PRASA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cc. Mr. Chuck Fox</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For more information or fax copies of the above mentioned EPA letters,
contact: </DIV>
<DIV>Mary Ann Lucking</DIV>
<DIV>Project Coordinator</DIV>
<DIV>CORALations</DIV>
<DIV>PMB 222</DIV>
<DIV>5900 Isla Verde Ave. L2</DIV>
<DIV>Carolina, PR 00979-4901</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:corals@caribe.net">corals@caribe.net</A></DIV>
<DIV>toll free: 1-877-77coral</DIV>
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