For Immediate Release: November 12, 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 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).
• Installation of one pole that is 43 feet above grade in the Town of Queensbury, Warren County (P2024-0290).
• 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.
• Continued operation of an existing sand and gravel extraction for another five-year term, with extraction occurring from the current floor elevation of 781 ft above mean sea level (amsl) to a floor elevation of 778 feet amsl in the Town of North Hudson, Essex County (P2024-0149).
• A request to amend existing Agency permits for a mineral extraction to change the mining method from open pit above ground to room and pillar underground, allow for Saturday operating hours 7:30am-6pm for above ground activities, allow for year-round underground mining activities 24 hours/day, and allow underground blasting Monday-Friday 9am-6pm with no changes proposed to processing methods or quantity of material processed, off-site truck trips, or lateral extents of the mine in the Town of Lewis, Essex County (P2023-0256).
• A three-lot subdivision involving wetlands of tax parcel 80.-3-42, creating a 131.513-acre parcel, a 3.200-acre parcel, and a 3.650-acre parcel; each improved by existing single family dwellings with related development in the Town of Edinburg, Saratoga County (P2024-0295).
• 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.