DRBC Public Hearing No. 1 on Proposed Rulemaking

A breakthrough in water resources management occurred in 1961 when President Kennedy and the governors of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York for the first time signed concurrent compact legislation into law creating a regional body with the force of law to oversee a unified approach to managing a river system without regard to political boundaries.Themembersof this regional body - theDelaware River Basin Commission(DRBC) - include the four basin state governors and the Division Engineer, North Atlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who serves as the federal representative.When the DRBC was created, some 43 state agencies, 14 interstate agencies, and 19 federal agencies exercised a multiplicity of splintered powers and duties within the watershed, which stretches 330 miles from the Delaware River's headwaters near Hancock, N.Y., to the mouth of the Delaware Bay.The Compact's signing marked the first time since the nation's birth that the federal government and a group of states joined together as equal partners in a river basin planning, development, and regulatory agency.The five members appoint alternate commissioners, with the governors selecting high-ranking officials from their state environmental agencies. Each commissioner has one vote of equal power, with a majority vote needed to decide most issues. Exceptions are votes to apportion among the signatory parties amounts required to support the current expense budget and votes to declare a state of emergency resulting from a drought or catastrophe, which require unanimity.Commission programs include water quality protection, water supply allocation, regulatory review (permitting), water conservation initiatives, watershed planning, drought management, flood loss reduction, and recreation.The DRBC is funded by the signatory parties, project review fees, water use charges, and fines, as well as federal, state, and private grants.The commission holds business meetings and hearings on policy matters and water resource projects under regulatory review. These sessions, along with meetings of the commission's various advisory committees, are open to the public.

Delaware River Basin Commission

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) will hold two public hearings on proposed amendments to its Rules of Practice and Procedure.

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) will hold two public hearings on proposed amendments to its Rules of Practice and Procedure to: resolve ambiguities around the automatic termination of project approvals issued by the Commission; make conforming amendments to related provisions as appropriate; update the Commission’s Water Resources Program and Project Review procedures to better conform them to current practice; remove references to the Federal Freedom of Information Act that create confusion about the regulations applicable to requests for Commission public records; and align pronouns with the Commission’s policies regarding diversity, inclusion, and belonging.Public hearings will be held remotely on the following dates at the noted times. Details about accessing the hearings are available on the Commission’s website, https://www.nj.gov/drbc/meetings/proposed/notice_RPP_amendments.html.To *attend* Public Hearing No. 1. November 13, 2023, 1:30 p.m. to no later than 4 p.m. register at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hnY01GKARCCEykopIXwlMQ or watch the livestream on the DRBC's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com /user/delrivbasincomm/ No registration is required to view the hearing on YouTube.To *provide testimony* at Public Hearing No. 1, after registering for Zoom, register for a ticket to speak via this EventBrite interface. Please register by 5 p.m., Friday, November 10, 2023. A second Public Hearing will be held November 13, 2023, 6:30 p.m. to no later than 9 p.m.After all registered speakers have had an opportunity to be heard, and as time allows, the Commission may provide an opportunity for other webinar attendees to speak, even if they did not register as speakers. At such time as all registered speakers in attendance have been heard, and any other webinar attendees who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity to speak (but who did not register to do so) have also been heard, the hearing officer will have discretion to close the hearing. Written comments will be accepted through 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 30, 2023, at: https://hearing.drbc.commentinput.com?id=T95htQGAg.The public is advised to check the Commission's website https://www.nj.gov/drbc/meetings/proposed/notice_RPP_amendments.html for complete instructions and updates, including how to provide testimony, how to request an exception from use of the online comment system, and how to request translation and access assistance.

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DRBC Public Hearing No. 1 on Proposed Rulemaking

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