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Review Board News May 12, 2015

  • NYCO TEST MINING ON LOT 8 COMPLETE – Press Republican ( Plattsburgh, NY) Website

    Kim Smith Dedam reports that NYCO Minerals has completed test mining on state-owned Lot 8.
    The company was exploring potential deposits of wollastonite with an eye to expand its mining operations in Lewis.

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    LEWIS — NYCO Minerals has completed test mining on state-owned Lot 8.

    The company was exploring potential deposits of wollastonite with an eye to expand its mining operations in Lewis.

    The permitted test-drilling window ended on May 1.
    NYCO spokesman John Brodt said the work, which started in December, proved promising.

    “NYCO has completed its exploratory drilling on Lot 8 and is now analyzing the data to determine the quantity and quality of the wollastonite located there,” Brodt said via email.

    “We expect this analysis to take three to six months, but we are encouraged by the initial findings.”

    FEWER TREES CUT

    The planned three-phase process was reduced to two phases, cutting the number of test-boring sites needed to 10.

    The State Department of Environmental Conservation said in the revised Temporary Revocable Permit that Phase 3 is no longer necessary.

    "No trees are to be cut on the access corridors and pad sites originally approved as part of Phase 3," DEC said. "This will result in approximately 515 trees being left uncut.”

    The quality and amount of wollastonite geologists find will determine whether the mining company moves ahead with a plan to swap 1,500 acres of private land in exchange for the 200-acre Lot 8.

    Currently owned by the state, Lot 8 is still part of the Jay Mountain Wilderness Area. The 200-acre plot adjoins one of the existing NYCO mines off State Route 9 in Lewis.

    Exploratory mining was the inaugural part of Proposition 5, a state constitutional amendment approved by statewide referendum in 2013 that allows NYCO to explore and then possibly swap private acres for state land. The private acres would then become part of the Adirondack Park Forest Preserve.

    COURT CHALLENGES

    The test-mining process was held up for a year while several Adirondack-based environmental groups working with Earth Justice challenged the permit in court.

    DEC had completed a forest inventory of Lot 8, helped establish the exploratory mining plans and set conditions before issuing a Temporary Revocable Permit.

    In addition, DEC also amended the Jay Mountain Wilderness Unit Management Plan to “recognize that a constitutional amendment implicitly repeals the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan guidelines for Wilderness to make the Unit Management Plan consistent with the constitutional amendment, to note that detailed terms and conditions governing mineral sampling operations will appear in the (temporary permit).”

    NO APPEAL

    Last December, the State Supreme Court dismissed the environmental lawsuit and the environmental groups decided against appeal.

    If NYCO pursues the land swap, then DEC would develop a land-use plan for adding the new parcels to the State Land Master Plan, which would be reviewed by the Adirondack Park Agency.

    Land parcels among those selected for swap adjoin the Jay Mountain Wilderness Area.

     

     

  • ADIRONDACK COUNCIL TOUTS NEW CLEAN WATER FUND – Press Republican ( Plattsburgh, NY) Website

     

    Lohn McKinstry reports that Adirondack Council Executive Director Willie Janeway told members of the County Board of Supervisors who want to upgrade their drinking-water and sewage-treatment systems that the new state Clean Water Fund will hand out $300 million in grants over three years.

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     ELIZABETHTOWN — Adirondack Council Executive Director Willie Janeway got an earful Monday when he nudged Essex County lawmakers to take advantage of the state’s new Clean Water Fund.

    Janeway told members of the County Board of Supervisors who want to upgrade their drinking-water and sewage-treatment systems that the new state fund will hand out $300 million in grants over three years.

    The State Environmental Facilities Corporation will accept applications and distribute the money, and Janeway said his environmental group lobbied Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature to create the fund to help small communities deal with the expense of updating their water and sewer infrastructure.

    “The Adirondack Park hosts about 10 million visitors a year, and this is vital to the state’s tourism economy,” Janeway said.

    “Many of the park’s 130 small, rural communities cannot afford the multimillion-dollar repairs and upgrades needed to keep their drinking water pure and their lakes and rivers clean.

    “Even with zero-interest, long-term loans, our small communities need additional help to avoid placing a massive debt burden on local taxpayers. This (clean water) program was designed to provide that help.”

    STREETS LEFT OUT

    Lawmakers immediately began telling Janeway about their water and sewer woes.

    “We are right now in the middle of a capital project in Bloomingdale,” Supervisor Charles Whitson Jr. (R-St. Armand) said. “The users in that community are responsible for $2.4 million as part of our payback.”

    The $4.5 million project is replacing the failing wastewater treatment system in the town’s Bloomingdale hamlet, and Whitson said it doesn’t go far enough.

    “There were items we could not expand upon because of lack of funding. We have five streets that lie within our sewer district that are not on the sewer plan.

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