ENB Region 6 Completed Applications 10/15/2003

The applicant proposes to mine 5 acres of sand from a 5 acre life of mine site on a 35.1 acre parcel owned by the applicant.  The site is approximately 460 feet North of CR 71, 1000' West of the intersection of CR 71 and CR75.  The sand will be used for cattle bedding.  

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 Empire Air Center, 394 Hangar Road, Bldg. 101, Rome, NY  13441.

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve the application of the Empire Air Center facility, an aircraft structural and mechanical inspection and repair facility.  The State Facility Permit allows the operation of Emission units 1-BTH01 and 2-BAY61, which includes surface coating and stripping operations for miscellaneous metal and plastic parts process, aerospace surface coating, and exempt and trivial sources.  The facility has capped out of Title V, and VOC Process RACT, VOC Surface Coating RACT Table 2, and New Source Review permitting requirements by tracking and restricting its facility emissions of total VOCs below 45 tons per year, total HAPs below 22.5 tons per year, and individual HAP's below 9 tons per year.

The draft permit with conditions is available for review in the Region 6 NYSDEC office in Watertown, NY.

The applicant proposes to construct a 44' long x 24' wide x 6' high clay and rock dam across Black Creek, approximately 550' downstream of New York State Route 812, approximately four miles north of the Village of Harrisville.  The purpose of the project is to facilitate snowmobile and ATV races on the ice in winter.