ENB Region 3 Completed Applications 04/16/2003

Applicant proposes to mine and process (crush) rock from approximately 1.75 acres of a 4.5 acre property owned by Eleanor Huber.  The site is located on the east side of NYS Route 22, immediately to the north of the Putnam Co./Dutchess County line.  The site has been approved by the Town for construction of a building materials center and some site excavation work has been done.  The applicant also requests approval for a variance to excavate up to the property line on the north side of the property, in conformance with the Town approved plan.

    The applicant is currently authorized to discharge 120 million gallons per day (30 day arithmetic mean) of treated sanitary wastewater to the Hudson River from its Yonkers Joint Wastewater Treatment Plant located at 1 Fernbrook Street, Ludlow Dock South in the City of Yonkers.  Various combined sewer/stormwater overflow outfalls are also authorized under this permit.  This permit was renewed on December 1, 1998 with an expiration date of June 1, 2004 under the Department's Environmental Benefit Permit Strategy (EBPS) program.

    The permittee has submitted its detailed application under the EBPS for review by the Department.  Based upon this application, the Department has made a tentative determination to issue a modified permit for a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit under Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation law.  This tentative determination indicates that the discharge regulated under this statute is considered to satisfy regulatory standards for permit issuance, based on information available to the Department at this time.  As a tentative determination, the Department seeks comments on the proposed regulated activity prior to making a final decision on permit issuance.  

    A draft permit has been prepared by the Department and is available for public review. A SPDES Permit Fact Sheet for this application has also been prepared and is available for review.  Refer to this application by application number listed above and SPDES number, NY0026689.

    The Department has prepared a Draft Permit pursuant to Article 19 (Air Pollution Control) of the NYS Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) and Title V of the Federal Clean Air Act Amendments and made a tentative determination to approve this application for the Applicant's facility located in Tarrytown, Westchester County.

    This is an existing hot mix asphalt (HMA) batch plant.  Liquid asphalt, various sizes of aggregate, sand and recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) are combined to produce HMA. Liquid asphalt is stored in heated above ground tanks each with a capacity of 25,000 gallons.  Aggregate, sand, and RAP are stored in stockpiles on site.  The aggregate and sand are heated in a rotary dryer and then blended in a pug mill to produce HMA.  The dryer is vented to a bag house.  The finished HMA is either loaded directly into trucks or transferred to storage silos.  The dryer can run on either #2 fuel oil or specification waste oil (waste fuel oil or specification waste oil (waste fuel A).

    By acceptance of this permit, the permittee agrees that the permit is contingent upon strict compliance with the ECL, all applicable regulations, the General Conditions specified and any Special Conditions included as part of this permit.

    The Application and Draft Permit are available for review at the Regional Office of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.