ENB - Region 5 Notices
Public Notice
County: Essex
Lead Agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC)
Project Title: Temporary Revokable Permit (TRP) - Schroon Lake Area Chamber of Commerce
Contact Person: Michael Curley, Supervising Forester
Address: NYS DEC
232 Hudson Street
PO Box 220
Warrensburg, NY 12885
Phone: (518) 623-1265
Project Location: Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area, Town of Schroon, Essex County.
Project Description: The Department of Environmental Conservation is reviewing a TRP application ( #4700) to allow the Schroon Lake Area Chamber of Commerce to hold a 10K snowshoe race.
Comments will be accepted until May 28, 2008.
County: Franklin
Lead Agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC)
Project Title: Temporary Revokable Permit (TRP) - Adirondack Paddlers Club
Contact Person: Leo Demong
Address: NYS DEC - Bureau of Fisheries
PO Box 296
Ray Brook, NY 12977
Phone: (518) 897-1343
Project Location: Lake Colby Fishing Access Site, Saranac Lakes Wild Forest. Town of Harrietstown, Franklin County.
Project Description: The Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing a TRP application (#4693) to allow the Adirondack Paddlers Club permission to hold a basic kayak skills course.
Comments will be accepted until May 28, 2008.
County: Warren
Lead Agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC)
Project Title: Temporary Revocable Permit (TRP) - Adirondack Scuba, Inc.
Contact Person: Curt Truax
Address: NYS DEC
232 Hudson Street
PO Box 220
Warrensburg, NY 12885
Phone: (518) 623-1254
Project Location: Town of Lake George
Project Description: The Department of Environmental Conservation is reviewing a TRP application to allow Divemaster Services, Inc. to utilize a portion of the Lake George frontage at Hearthstone Public Campground for the purpose of instructor supervised diving activities. The activity will not impact the public's ability to access and utilize the Lake or other facilities, and would be authorized only while the facilities are open to the public from May through October 31st. The permit will be in addition to users also obtaining a Day Use permit to enter the facilities for the authorized activities.
Comments will be accepted until May 28, 2008.
A copy of the TRP application can be reviewed on the NYS DEC website at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/35382.html or by calling the Department's contact person at: (518) 623-1254.
County: Warren
Lead Agency: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC)
Project Title: Temporary Revocable Permit (TRP) - Adirondack Scuba, Inc.
Contact Person: Gary West
Address: NYS DEC
232 Hudson Street
PO Box 220
Warrensburg, NY 12885
Phone: (518) 623-1253
Project Location: Town of Lake George
Project Description: The Department of Environmental Conservation is reviewing a TRP application to allow Adirondack Scuba, Inc. to utilize a portion of the Lake George frontage at Hearthstone and Rogers Rock Public Campgrounds for the purpose of instructor supervised diving activities. The activity will not impact the public's ability to access and utilize the Lake or other facilities, and would be authorized only while the facilities are open to the public from May through October 13th. The permit will be in addition to users also obtaining a Day Use permit to enter the facilities for the authorized activities.
Comments will be accepted until May 28, 2008.
A copy of the TRP application can be reviewed on the NYSDEC website at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/35382.html or by calling the Department's contact person at: (518) 623-1253.
Adirondack Park Agency Completed Applications
County: Essex, Franklin and Hamilton
Lead Agency: New York State Department of Transportation (NYS DOT)
Applicant: NYS DOT
207 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13501
Office: Adirondack Park Agency (APA)
P. O. Box 99, Route 86
Ray Brook, NY 12977
Phone: (518) 891-4050, ext. 207
APA Contact: Thomas E. Saehrig
APA Project Number: 2008-0018
Project Title: New York State Department of Transportation
Location: Remsen to Lake Placid Railroad corridor in the Towns of North Elba, Harrietstown, Santa Clara, Altamont, Piercefield, Long Lake, Webb and Forestport, in the counties of Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Herkimer and Oneida, New York
For Adirondack Park Agency: Comment Period Ends: May 29, 2008
Project Description: The action involves mowing, brush cutting, tree removals and herbicide application along The Remsen to the Lake Placid Travel Corridor in order to maintain vegetation control for current and future rail service and trail development and maintenance, involving wetlands and state lands under the jurisdiction of NYS DOT. Vegetation management of the corridor was previously approved by the Agency in permits 98-108 and 98-108R. Minor changes to the vegetation management of the corridor are proposed as part of this project. No new herbicides are proposed to be used for vegetation management other than those previously approved, at this time. All herbicides will be applied in strict compliance with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) labels. The vegetation management plan is subject to the Remsen/Lake Placid Travel Corridor Final Management Plan. NYS DOT and NYS DEC have proposed an amendment to the plan for vegetative management of the corridor in conjunction with this project. The Agency is reviewing concurrently the proposed vegetation management amendment to the Travel Corridor Final Management Plan for compliance with the State Land Master Plan and will make a determination separate from this project.
County: Franklin
Lead Agency: Adirondack Park Agency
Applicant: Village of Saranac Lake and Town of Harrietstown
Office: Adirondack Park Agency (APA)
P. O. Box 99, Route 86
Ray Brook, NY 12977
Phone: (518) 891-4050, ext. 207
APA Contact: Suzanne McSherry
APA Project Number: 2008-58
Project Title: Village of Saranac Lake and Town of Harrietstown
Location: Town of Harrietstown on John Munn Road in Saranac Lake, New York 12983
For Adirondack Park Agency: Comment Period Ends: May 29, 2008
Project Description: The action involves the construction of a new shared sand/salt storage shed over 40 feet in height for the Village of Saranac Lake and the Town of Harrietstown.
County: Franklin
Applicant: Sunny Brook Lodge, LLC
Office: Adirondack Park Agency (APA)
P. O. Box 99, Route 86
Ray Brook, NY 12977
Phone: (518) 891-4050, ext. 207
APA Contact: George Outcalt, Jr.
APA Project Number: 2008-85
Project Title: Preminger Boathouse
Location: Lands End Road, Town of Santa Clara, New York
For Adirondack Park Agency: Comment Period Ends: May 29, 2008
Project Description: The project is the construction of a 455 ± square foot, one story boathouse and attached covered dock on the shoreline of Upper Saranac Lake. The permit is required pursuant to Condition 13 of Agency Permit 2007-112. The Town of Santa Clara issued a building permit for the boathouse. A permit will be required from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) for any excavation or placement of fill below the mean high water level of the lake (e.g., the footings for the boathouse).
Negative Declaration
Essex County - The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC), as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Addition of Mill Brook to the Lake Champlain sea lamprey control program will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The long-term program of sea lamprey control in Lake Champlain as described in the 2001 Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) indicates that streams newly colonized by sea lamprey would be added to the control program as needed following site-specific environmental review. A significant larval sea lamprey population was first discovered in Mill Brook in 2007, and wounding rates on Lake Champlain fishes are still far above program objectives. Thus the addition of Mill Brook to the control program is relevant. This review is intended to address the potential of lampricide use in Mill Brook and its delta as described in the FSEIS, and concludes there would be no significant impacts either on Mill Brook itself or cumulatively within the broader context of the control program as a whole. The potential adverse impacts from lampricide applications for sea lamprey control in Lake Champlain have been thoroughly discussed in the 1990 FEIS "Use of lampricides in a temporary program of sea lamprey control in Lake Champlain with an assessment of certain fish populations and sportfisheries" and its subsequent FSEIS referenced above. No significant adverse impacts were identified during the eight-year program covered by the FEIS and fundamental mitigation strategies established in the FEIS and FSEIS will be continued.
The project is located as described in the following table:
| Stream | Stream Miles a | Delta Acresb | County | Township |
| Mount Hope Brook | 0.4 | 89 | Essex | Moriah |
a Miles refers to the length of stream to be treated from application point to mouth.
b Acreage contained within the potential delta treatment boundary area. Treated acreage will likely be substantially reduced from the acreage stated here. Delta larval sea lamprey distributions will be mapped using modified deepwater electrofishing techniques. Only those sections with sufficient densities of sea lamprey ammocoetes will be treated.
Contact: Lance Durfey, NYS DEC, P.O. Box 296, Route 86 Ray Brook, NY 12977, Phone: (518) 897-1333, E-mail: lxdurfey@gw.dec.state.ny.us.
