ENB Region 6 Completed Applications 08/30/2006

The applicants proposes to construct a 32' x 17' in-ground swimming pool and attached gazebo at their residence at 21770 Bullhead Bay Road, Wellesley Island.  The pool would encroach approximately 50' into the buffer area of regulated freshwater wetland F-11, a 130 acre Class II emergent marsh, associated with Mud Creek, a tributary to the St. Lawrence River.  The pool would be located at the top of the hill overlooking the wetland.

The applicant proposes to construct a 62' x 24' single family residence at their present address on Balch Place Road, approximately 0.5 miles east of US Route 11, one mile south of the Village of Mannsville.  The house will replace their current mobile home, which will be removed from the site, when the house is completed.  The house will be located approximately 60' from regulated freshwater wetland K-7, a 55.1 acre Class II open water, flooded timber and scrub shrub wetland.

This Department has received a request to modify 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 Kraft Foods Inc., 7388 Utica Blvd., Lowville, NY, 13367.

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

Foods Inc. facility, a cheese food product production facility.  The State Facility Permit allows the operation of Emission units 0-00001 and 0-000003 which includes the operation of the facility's two 41mmbtu/hr natural gas/#2 oil fired boilers, two 480 hp engines, a digester gas flare, and exempt and trivial sources. The facility has capped out of Title V, and NOx RACT. Permitting requirements by tracking and restricting its facility emissions of SO2 and NOx 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 proposes to place 200 linear feet of rip-rap on the bank of Fish Creek, a Navigable Water of the State. The bank will be graded to a stable 1 foot vertical rise per 2 foot horizontal, geotextile fabric will be placed on the graded bank, followed by the placement of 2000-3000 pound heavy stone fill. The project is located on the north bank approximately 0.8 miles upstream of the bridge at Fish Creek Landing.