ENB Region 6 Completed Applications 03/29/2006

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 Crowley Foods, 20700 State Route 411, Lafargeville, NY, 13656-0141.

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve the application of the Crowley

Foods facility, a cheese food product production facility.  The State Facility Permit allows the operation of Emission units A-S001 which includes the operation of the facilities four 9.9mmbtu/hr #6 oil fired boilers and exempt and trivial sources. The facility has capped out of Title V permitting requirements by tracking and restricting its facility emissions of SO2  below 95 tons per year.

The draft permit with conditions is available for review in the Region 6 NYS DEC office in Watertown, New York.

The applicant, in conjunction with hospital renovations and expansion plans on West Road, in the Village of Carthage, will relocate a portion of Hospital Drive to the west, near its intersection with West Road.  Relocation of Hospital Drive will impact 0.38 acres of state regulated freshwater wetland CT-1, a 731 acre Class II mixed emergent, scrub shrub, wet meadow and wooded wetland.  To mitigate wetland impacts, a section of adjacent upland area bordering the realignment, 0.55 acres in size, will be excavated below the water table and refilled with hydric soils to support the establishment of wetland vegetation .  The project is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2006.

The Department has made a tentative determination to approve the permit modification request to increase permitted average flows to the Lowville Municipal Pollution Control Plant to 1.8 million gallons per day, convert the phosphorous limit to a 12-month rolling average and to change weekend sampling requirements. The permit modification will require the Village to meet compliance schedules for a wet weather study plan and implementation, as well as building a new outfall to discharge directly to the Black River due to stricter water quality limits in Mill Creek.