ENB Region 6 Completed Applications 02/05/2003

PSG Realty, LLC, doing business as Poland Sand & Gravel, proposes to expand their sand and gravel mining operation by 18.0 acres.  The life of mine boundary will increased from 32.8 acres to 50.8 acres,

with a total of 38.7 acres affected during the coming five year permit term.  The expansion will include the addition of a small portable processing plant in the newly affected area and the continued use of a closedloop system wash plant.  The mine is located on a 104 acre parcel owned by the applicant and located 1200 feet east of NYS Rt. 28 immediately south of the Village of Poland in the Town of Newport, Herkimer County.    

This Department has received a request to issue a permit and has drafted an Article 19 (Air Pollution Control) of the Environmental Conservation Law an Air State Facility Permit, at the facility located at Indium Corporation of America, 1676 Lincoln Avenue, Utica, NY 13503.

Indium Corporation of America is a small company producing speciality solder brazes, fusible alloys and related materials for the electronics industry.  Inorganic chemicals of metal Indium are also produced for the electronics and battery industry.  The Indium metal is produced from the purification of Indium containing ore and recovery of Indium containing waste.  These processes include the refining, and chemically reacting the material to remove unwanted materials.  The facility process the purified Indium through melting, molding, parts manufacturing, degreasing, cleaning and lab operations.

The facility also produces various types of small parts from indium.  Parts manufacturing operation includes a powder flux coating operation, and rolling and stamping mills to create small parts.  parts are degreased and cleaned by Indium parts, and then dried by the use of drying ovens.  This application and permit contain federally enforceable conditions limiting emissions from the degreasing units below the applicable threshold level set forth in 6 NYCRR Part 201-6.  The trichloroethylene emissions are limited to 9 tons per year, and total Hazardous Air Pollutants are limited to 22.5 tons per year.  Determining compliance with these limits will be calculated through trichloroethylene use records and will be subject to NYS DEC approval.  The facility's emissions are below Title V thresholds and minor for all pollutants.  The Draft Permit with conditions is available for review in the Region 6 NYS DEC office in Utica, New York.

The applicant proposes to operate a sand and gravel mine on his 275 acre parcel within the towns of Sangerfield and Marshall in Oneida county. The life of mine boundary will be 53.8 acres, with 5.0 acres of land to be affected during the coming 5 year permit. Surface mining of unconsolidated sand and gravel will be performed by backhoe and front end loader. Topsoil and overburden will be stripped and stockpiled for re-use in the reclamation operation. The project will include on-site crushing and screening of mining products. The project is located north of Sangerhill Road and 2700 feet west of it's intersection with NYS Route 12. A copy of the mining application is available for review at the DEC office in Utica, and the Town offices of Sangerfield and Marshall. The application can also be viewed at the Village Office in Waterville.

The applicant proposes to construct a 36' x 40' pier supported cottage and a 6' wide x 20' long floating dock with a 6' x 6' stone filled timber crib support above the mean high water mark in an existing four lot subdivision near the northwest shoreline of Little Chippewa Point, two miles northwest of the hamlet of Chippewa Bay.