Chapter 105 Update

SWEP Capital Chapter’s

PA DEP Annual Regulatory Update Seminar

January 23, 2020

Tom Wolf, Governor Patrick McDonnell, Secretary

• Chapter 105 General Permit E-Permitting

• Compensatory Mitigation

• NEW 2019 PA Predictive Wetland Mapping

• Chapter 105 Regulation Revisions

Chapter 105 Regulatory Update

• Online Electronic

Filing Administrator

(EFA) Registration

went online

September 2019

• No Longer accepting

paper EFA

registrations e-

mailed to DEP

Chapter 105 GP E-Permitting

Chapter 105 GP E-Permitting

Chapter 105 GP E-Permitting

• Continuing to make improvements and corrections to the

system

• Webpage contains user guides and helpful information:

https://www.dep.pa.gov/Business/Water/Waterways/Pages/e

Permitting.aspx

• Problems?? E-mail RA-EPBWEWEPERDWET105@pa.gov

Chapter 105 GP E-Permitting

• Compensatory mitigation banking is continuing to develop

• First lower Susquehanna Mitigation Bank has been

constructed

• Codorus Creek Bank – RES

• Over 8 acres of wetland created

• 10,000 linear feet of stream were restored

• Other Bank Sites being developed affecting SCRO Region

include one in Upper Juniata Watershed and one in Schuylkill

River Watershed

Compensatory Mitigation

• Modeled Wetland Mapping of Pennsylvania

• http://www.pasda.psu.edu/uci/SearchResults.aspx?Keyword=Model

ed+Wetlands

NEW Wetland Mapping

• Computer Based Modeling – Not Interpreted by a person

• More Wetland Areas Mapped than NWI

• Statewide

• Contains Two Layers

• Modeled Primary Wetlands

• Modeled Restorable Wetlands

NEW Wetland Mapping

• Previous NWI Estimate

was 404,000 acres in PA

• 2013 PA Modeled

Probability Occurrence:

1,591,012 acres

• Increase of 1,187,012 acres

NEW Wetland Mapping

NEW Wetland MappingWetland

Delineation and

Utility data

curtesy of DTE

Midstream

Appalachia Inc.

and DAWOOD

Engineers

• DEP is in the preliminary stages of Chapter 105 Reg. Revisions

• Last Comprehensive Revisions were in 1991

• Reg. Revision in 2011 for Dam Safety and in 2013 regarding fees

• General include is to clarify existing permit application

requirements, codifying existing review practices, and address

needed editorial changes and corrections

• DEP anticipates presenting to the Environmental Quality Board

in the 2nd Quarter of 2020

Chapter 105 Regulation Revisions

• Key revisions

• Update definitions

• Waiver of permit requirements

• Clarification of existing requirements for complete permit applications

• Restoration projects

• Aquatic resource compensation

• Update to dam safety criteria

• Update relating to dredge or fill material

• Status of Prior Converted Cropland

Chapter 105 Regulation Revisions

Andrew McDonald

Water Program Specialist

Bureau of Waterways Engineering and

Wetlands

717-783-2408

anmcdonald@pa.gov