NEWS FROM THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

Aug. 12, 2009
Vol. 39, No. 341

Contact: Kevin Coyle, Principal Planner, Delaware Coastal Zone Act Program, 302-739-9071; or Melanie Rapp, Public Affairs, 302-739-9902.

                  Mountaire Farms applies for Coastal Zone Act permit

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has received an application for a Coastal Zone Act permit from Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Inc. to construct and operate a resource recovery facility within the existing Mountaire Farms complex located on the south side of Rt. 24, east of Millsboro.

According to the application, the proposed operation consists of the recovery of unused protein materials (blood, feathers, and offal) from the Mountaire Millsboro and Selbyville poultry processing plants, farms and hatcheries and processing these materials into hydrolyzed feather and poultry meal and feed grade fat at the Millsboro facility.

The permit application can be inspected at DNREC offices at 89 Kings Highway, Dover; the Air Quality Management Office, 715 Grantham Lane, New Castle; and at three public libraries: the Hockessin Public Library, 1023 Valley Road, Hockessin; Delaware City Library, 250 Fifth Street., Delaware City; and the Wilmington Public Library, 10th & Market Street, Wilmington.

The application is presently under review. If and when the application is determined to be preliminarily, administratively complete, a public hearing will be announced.

For more information, contact Kevin Coyle at 302-739-9071.

The Delaware Coastal Zone Act Program regulates existing heavy industrial activities, as well as new and existing manufacturing activities in Delaware’s Coastal Zone through a status decision and permit process. For program information, visit DNREC website, http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/Admin/CZA/Pages/CZAHome.aspx.