ENB Region 4 Completed Applications 02/02/2005

The applicant proposes to increase the currently approved capacity of their facility from 1000 pounds to 2000 pounds of regulated waste, in order to consolidate current operations from the existing facility and the recently acquired Empire Isotopes facility. The project is located on Walker Way in the town of Colonie, Albany County.

    The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has received an application to re-issue/re-new  the following pre-existing EPA minor Private/Commercial/Institutional State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (P/C/I SPDES) permit.  DEC has made a tentative determination to re-issue/re-new this pre-existing permit for a five year term maintaining current effluent limitations and monitoring and reporting requirements.  This permit involves the surface discharge through a sub-surface sand filter of up to 1,800 gallons per day of treated sanitary waste to a tributary of the Bozen Kill.

    Additional information on this permit may be requested from or inspected at the NYSDEC Central Office in Albany.  Substantive comments must be submitted in writing to the contact person.  To be called substantive, 6 NYCRR Part 621.7 requires public comments "explain the basis of opposition and explain specific grounds..." for opposition.

    SPDES #:  NY 010 3179

The applicant proposes to place fill and a culvert in a portion of the adjacent area of Freshwater Wetland HS-22 for the purpose of constructing a road to access a residential subdivision.  The project is located on Lockwood Road, adjacent to the town recreation area, in the Town of Livingston, Columbia County.

The permittee proposes to modify an existing mining permit to mine-through the common property line with the adjacent mining operation operated by Corellis Sand and Gravel, to create a continuous final contour when the two mines are reclaimed.  No changes to the method or rate of extraction are proposed.  The site is located near US Routes 9 and 20, 1000 feet northeast of US Route 20 in the Town of East Greenbush, Rensselaer County.