For Immediate Release: October 7, 2024
Contact:
Benjamin Brosseau | keith.mckeever@apa.ny.gov
Assistant Public Information Officer | Adirondack Park Agency | Press Office | (518) 891-4050
RAY BROOK, NY – The Adirondack Park Agency is accepting public comment on projects currently under review. The public is encouraged to go online to learn more about each public comment opportunity and to submit comments electronically.
At present, the following projects are available for comment at https://apa.ny.gov/Hearings/index.cfm:
• Amendments to a previously-approved mineral extraction, including: expansion of a residual minerals pile from 73 acres to 88.4 acres in size, lowering of the quarry floor from 1,860 feet above mean sea level (amsl) to 1,790 feet amsl, increasing hours of on-site trucking and mining vehicle operation from 7am to 3:30pm Monday through Friday to 7am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday, increasing off-site trucking trips from 5 per day to 16 per day Monday through Friday and reducing off-site trucking hours from 7am to 10pm to 7am to 5pm Monday through Friday in the Towns of Johnsburg, Warren County, and Indian Lake, Hamilton County (P2021-0245).
• Seasonal tourist accommodation consisting of four cabins on wheels with electric service, one composting toilet/operations shed, and parking for nine vehicles in an existing gravel area in the Town of Essex, Essex County (P2024-0173).
• Installation of an on-site wastewater treatment system within 100 feet of wetlands to serve a new single-family dwelling in the Town of Webb, Herkimer County (P2024-0035).
• A five-lot subdivision to create four vacant shoreline lots for the construction of one single family dwelling, on-site wastewater treatment system and individual well water supply on each. The remaining lot, improved by an existing cabin, will remain with a 50±-acre Rural Use portion in the Town of Indian Lake, Hamilton County (P2024-0061).
• Installation of an 80-foot-long, 4-foot-wide dock in the Town of Chester, Warren County (P2023-0232).
• The preparation and submission to the Governor of proposed amendments to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan for the management of State lands, pursuant to the Adirondack Park Agency Act (APA Act) and the APSLMP.
The mission of the Adirondack Park Agency is to protect the public and private resources of the Adirondack Park through the exercise of the powers and duties of the Agency as provided by law.