Albany, New York — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will lengthen the public comment period on
its final draft environmental impact statement from 60 to 90 days and hold four public hearings.
Not exact matches
The move means the board will guide the SEQR process and make the
final call on whether to accept
draft and
final versions of the
environmental impact statements as complete.
This section of MAP - 21 provides for the use of errata sheets on the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement, in lieu of a
Final EIS (FEIS), when the EIS has limited or factual changes.
On Monday, the State Department concluded a public comment period on its
draft environmental impact statement, and will publish a
final one some time this summer, before making a determination as to whether permitting construction of the cross-border TransCanada pipeline would be in the U.S. national interest.
The
Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on the project remained essentially unchanged from the earlier
Draft SEIS in contending that the pipeline would not significantly alter total global emissions of greenhouse gases.