The applicant proposes to remove gravel from a 100 lineal ft bar in Stillwater Creek. The gravel will be removed by a skimming type operation and all removal will occur above the normal low water elevation of Stillwater Creek at the site. The project is located at the applicant's property, 691 Creek Road, approximately 900 feet upstream of the Donelson Road bridge.

     The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has received an application to re-issue the following EPA minor Private/Commercial/Institutional State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (P/C/I SPDES) permit. DEC has made a tentative determination to re-issue this permit for a five-year period, maintaining the current effluent limitations and monitoring and reporting requirements. This permit involves the surface discharge of 26,000 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to the Dutch Hollow Creek Trib.

     Additional information including the current permit, renewal applications, and supporting documentation may be obtained from or inspected at the NYSDEC central office in Albany. Substantive comments on the permit or requests for hearing or both must be submitted in writing to the contact person.

     SPDES Number: NY 009 7527

The Department has prepared a draft permit and made a tentative determination to approve an application for a modification of an existing permit to discharge treated sanitary wastewater to groundwater. The exisiting permit allows the discharge of 12,500 gallons per day (gpd) and the modification will allow an additional discharge of 18,750 gpd from a septic tank and sand filter system. The project is located on the south side of Main Street opposite Kraus Road. The application and draft permit are available for review at the regional office during business hours.

This a corrected Notice of Complete Application which supercedes the Notice published March 14, 2001. The previous Notice incorrectly identified the location of the facility and the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR) status. The Department has prepared a draft State Facility Permit for the IPAC Reactivization plant, a new facility in the Town of Niagara, which will reactivate spent, non-hazardous activated carbons using electrical resistivity multi-hearth kilns. Two kilns will be installed with the possibility of adding two additional kilns at a future date. The exhaust from the kilns will be drawn through an afterburner or thermal oxidizer and will then pass through a wet scrubber/quencher before exiting to the atmosphere through a stack. The reactivated carbon will be sieved to remove any dust generated during the reactivization process. Dust from the sieving operation will be captured by a baghouse dust collector. Facility-wide potential emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, a hazardous air pollutant(HAP), and volatile organic compounds(VOCs) exceed the major source thresholds for the Title V permitting requirements of 6NYCRR, Part 201-6. Therefore, the facility has agreed to accept a production throughput limit of 51,731,686 pounds during each consecutive twelve month period in order to limit emissions to less than

80 % of the major source thresholds: carbon monoxide to less than 80 tons, hydrogen chloride to less than 8 tons, and VOC to less than 40 tons. By accepting the VOC limit to less than the major source threshold of 50 tons, the facility will not be subject to the Reasonably Available Control Requirements (RACT) of 6NYCRR, Part 212.10 or the New Source Review in Non-Attainment Area requirements of 6NYCRR, Part 231-2.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District under the sponsorship of Niagara County Department of Public Works propose to install riprap on the bank of Tonawanda Creek. The construction site is immediately east of Block Church Road approximately 1,000 feet south of its intersection with Ertman Road. Three hundred feet of riprap will be installed to stop streambank erosion which threatens Block Church Road.

As part of the Niagara County Health Department's Mosquito Control Program, it is proposed to annually apply Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), Bacillus sphaericus (Bs), Methoprene (active ingredient in Altosid) and Agnique (Isostearyl Alcohol Ethoxylate) Monomolecular Film (MMF) larvicides in the CB-13, CC-2, CC-3, CC-24, LE-2, LE-4, LE-18, LE-19, LP-8, LP-9, LP-10, LP-19, LP-21, LP-23, LP-34, LP-37, NW-8, NW-13, NW-32, NW-33, RV-3, RV-5, RV-11, TE-1, TE-2 (Moyer Road), TE-12 (East Robinson), TE-15 (Klydel), TE-25, TW-1, TW-3, TW-4 (Summit Park), TW-6 (Williams Road), TW-24, TW-25, TW-26, WI-10, WI-26, WI-27 and WI-28 Wetlands in the Towns of Cambria, Lewiston, Lockport, Newfane, Pendleton, Porter, Wheatfield and Wilson; and the Cities of Lockport, Niagara Falls and North Tonawanda. Most of the RV-3 Wetland and all of the RV-5 Wetland are located in the Tuscarora Indian Reservation. The referenced wetlands are either class I, II or III wetlands. The active ingredients in Bti and Bs are composed of viable endospores and delta-endotoxin crystals, which upon ingestion by mosquito larvae cause general gut paralysis and death. Methoprene is an insect growth regulator. It does not control larvae through direct toxic action. Rather, it interferes with normal mosquito metamorphosis, preventing larvae from developing into viable adult mosquitoes. Agnique MMF is a surfactant (surface active agent) which has been in use in various formulations for over 20 years. The product forms a thin film on the water surface and changes the surface tension at the air/water interface. This inhibits the proper feeding, resting, breathing, and/or molting orientation of mosquito larvae and pupae at the air/water interface, leading to suffocation. It does not kill via chemical toxicity.

The applicant proposes to transport and dispose of septage by land application at 2 sites, totalling 15 acres of land, owned by F. Lincoln Walkley off LaMont Road in the Town of Pike. Site 1 is a 2.5 parcel approximately one mile south of the intersection of LaMont Road and Route 39 at the rear of the West Wind Aggregates Inc property at 6600 LaMont Road and Site 2 is a 12.5 acre parcel located approximately 1/4 mile north of the intersection of LaMont Road and Route 39. Septage will be incorporated into the soil within 24 hours of applicaton.