For Immediate Release: October 28, 2024
Contact:
Keith P. McKeever | keith.mckeever@apa.ny.gov
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:
• A new permit term to allow for continued operation of a previously authorized sand and gravel extraction in the Town of Peru, Clinton County (P2024-0261).
• Subdivision of a vacant 146±-acre parcel to create six building lots accessed from an existing gravel road with one single family dwelling, on-site wastewater treatment system, and water supply well to be constructed on each in the Town of Stratford, Fulton County (P2024-0053).
• Construction of a 120-foot self-supporting lattice tower for Hamilton County Emergency Services equipment and related infrastructure within a 40-foot by 40-foot fenced equipment compound and improvement of an existing driveway in the Town of Morehouse, Hamilton County (P2024-0065).
• Proposed revocation of APA general permits GP2005G-2R, Minor Projects Not In Or Impacting Wetlands; GP2005G-5R: Subdivision to Convey Two or More Lots Without Principal Building Rights; GP2010G-3: Change in Use of an Existing Commercial, Public/Semi-Public, or Industrial Building; GP2011G-1: Subdivisions Involving Wetlands; and GP2011G-2: New York State Department of Transportation Herbicide Vegetation Management for Guide Rail and Sign Delineator Posts Adjacent to Wetlands in the Adirondack Park.
• Construction of a 4.7 MW photovoltaic solar generation facility within four separately fenced solar panel arrays on approximately 20.5± acres with the point of interconnection with existing overhead electrical distribution infrastructure proposed on Tarbell Hill Rd. through underground on-site infrastructure in the Town of Moriah, Essex County (P2023-0244).
• Construction of a 26-foot-wide cul-de-sac road within a 50-foot-wide right-of-way to access proposed residential development in the Town of Bolton, Warren County (P2024-0134).
• 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 Town of Johnsburg, Warren County, and Indian Lake, Hamilton County (P2021-0245).
• A four-lot subdivision to create a 1.17±-acre lot to be improved by a single family dwelling (Lot 1), a 2.47±-acre lot to be improved by a single family dwelling (Lot 2), a 3.65±-acre lot to be improved by a single family dwelling (Lot 3) and a 17.24±-acre non-building lot in the Town of North Elba, Essex County (P2024-0240).
• A three-lot subdivision to create a 0.39±-acre lot with existing development (Lot 1), a 0.76±-acre lot with existing development (Lot 2), and a 0.44±-acre building lot (Lot 3) in the Town of Inlet, Hamilton County (P2024-0188).
• Construction of a 105-foot-tall monopole telecommunications tower and installation of antennas at the 100-foot centerline level with associated equipment, and construction of a 208-foot-long access drive to the tower site in the Town of Schroon, Essex County (P2024-0199).
• Proposed application of the lampricides TFM and Niclosamide to control a recently detected invasive sea lamprey population in the Boquet River and North Branch Boquet River, Essex County. This treatment will be incorporated into the long-term sea lamprey control program authorized by prior Agency permits. The purpose of the project is to achieve and maintain reductions of the invasive sea lamprey populations in Lake Champlain, thereby reducing the wounding rates to Lake Trout, Landlocked Salmon, and Walleye populations in the Lake (P2024-0234).
• Installation of a 125-foot-tall monopine telecommunications tower and installation of an antenna array on the tower at a centerline height of 110 feet with access long an existing 75-foot-long gravel drive extended by a new 170-foot-long gravel drive in the Town of Minerva, Essex County (P2024-0142).
• Draft amendments to the to the 1986 Mt Van Hoevenberg Intensive Use Area Unit Management Plan (UMP) for modernization and repair of facilities as well as construction of mountain biking trails and features at Mt Van Hoevenberg.
• 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.