Sentences with phrase «lead agency reviewing»
In January, the state Department of Environmental Conversation designated Kiryas Joel lead agency reviewing the environmental impact of the annexation petition.
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Republican County Executive Steve Neuhaus had promised the county's parallel analysis after Kiryas Joel officials held a voluntary scoping session as designated lead agency reviewing the environmental impact of a petition advanced by local property owners in the Town of Monroe.
The State Thruway Authority and Department of Environmental Conservation are the leading agencies reviewing the project.
Not exact matches
«Your letter states that the Public Service Agency's review is directed solely at «the human resources and investigation processes and procedures» that led to the termination of the employment of a number of Ministry of Health employees in 2012, rather than being a review of the decisions themselves,» Adams wrote on Whitmarsh's behalf.
Last week, Trump appointed the long - time fossil fuel lobbyist Myron Ebell to lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, and recently Trump's transition team released statements on «energy independence» that unambiguously favor the extractive industries and in which the team promises to «conduct a top - down review of all anti-coal regulations».
A spokesman for the United States Treasury Department, which led the review, said the agency does not comment on the process.
Dunkin's incumbent media agency, IPG's Trilia, is participating in the media review, which is being led by MediaLink, the restaurant chain said.
The Nikkei Asian Review has reported that Japan's financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), has warned leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance that it will face criminal charges if it continues its Japanese operations without a license.
The review and revision of the Home Visiting program involved the Ohio Department of Health (lead agency for Help Me Grow and the Part C early intervention program), the Office of Governor Ted Strickland, local Help Me Grow project directors, home visitors, existing providers of home visiting services in the state, and early childhood advocates.
Opposition to the state plan for the Thruway Authority to be lead agency in the environmental review of the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline along the superhighway is mounting as the Newburgh City Council is against it.
Leading that effort are Epstein for coordination of town departments and agencies, Knight for the Historic Review Board and Ms. Hausner for the Town Board; with outside leadership from Maddy Muller of Heritage of West Nyack, Stead for Cooperative Extension and BOCES and Clare Sheridan of the Historical Society of Rockland County, headquartered in adjacent New City.
And so he vowed to hold his own forum and conduct a parallel review that he will submit to the lead agency, but which is not legally binding.
The Town of Ulster two weeks ago affirmed its intent to declare lead agency in the environmental review process of a
We pointed put that this violates state Environmental Quality Review Act requirements so, now, the Thruway Authority, who wants (to be the) lead agency and the state Department of Environmental Conservation are walking it back and saying it's just a preliminary draft environmental impact statement and there will be public scoping.
«Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing the Thruway Authority's Nov. 16 request for lead agency status on the Pilgrim Transportation of New York... application for pipeline construction,» state Department of Environmental Conservation press representative wrote.
«A lead agency has not yet been established and the environmental review process has not commenced,» a spokesperson wrote.
... Regardless of whether DEC is a «lead» or «involved» agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Thruway Authority will continue to ensure this proposal is subject to rigorous review, including that all potential environmental impacts are adequately identified and addressed.»
Schneiderman sent a letter seeking a review of regulations on gas drilling as proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commision, an interstate federal body led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and includes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Parks Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump plans to assign a New York billionaire, Stephan A. Feinberg, to lead a broad review of American intelligence agencies — an effort that members of the intelligence community fear could curtail their independence and reduce the flow of information that contradicts the president's worldview.
The Ulster Town Board is also expected to declare itself «lead agency» in the review at the November 20 meeting.
The Ulster Town Board is serving as lead agency on the environmental review.
Debra Dewan, who called herself an «eco-evangelist» and serves on the board of the Catskill Watershed Corporation and on the advisory board of Riverkeeper, urged people to call the DEC Region III office and ask them to reconsider becoming lead agency in the SEQRA review.
Once the lead agency accepts the environmental impact statement as complete, each involved agency will have an opportunity to lay out findings, including recommended changes to the project, before the review is complete.
The Ulster Town Board is also expected to declare itself «lead agency» in the review at the Nov. 20th meeting.
At Thursday's meeting, village attorney Joseph Prokop said the village applied on Sept. 26 to be the «lead agency» for an environmental review process, believing the Village Board could better oversee concerns about the project.
The SEQR review process will begin with a scoping document produced by the company and subject to approval by the town board, which is acting as lead agency and heading up the review, and other «involved agencies.»
The review process will begin with a scoping document produced by Niagara and subject to approval by the town board, which is acting as «lead agency» under SEQR and heading up the review, and other «involved agencies.»
The state Thruway Authority and Department of Environmental Conservation in December announced that they will share «lead agency» status in reviewing the portion of the pipelines that will be in New York, largely along the Thruway corridor.
Local environmental watchdog and activist agency Riverkeeper adds that dual lead agencies are not the optimal way to set up a review, says Sue Rosenberg, Saugerties CAPP leader.
The climate - changing juggernaut snuck back into town in November via a letter from the New York State Thruway Authority to all «involved agencies» (municipalities that lie along the Thruway, which is the chosen route to transport Bakken crude oil between Albany and the New Jersey refineries) requesting approval as lead agency in the environmental review required before construction of the pipeline can be approved.
Last week, KingstonCitizens.org, the local activist group that led the successful opposition to the Niagara Bottling proposal, last week asked its members to consider whether the group will ask the Kingston Common Council to advocate the DEC taking «lead agency» status in the environmental review.
Updating theses forms will improve the quality of information provided to the lead agency, include more useful information based on existing practices, and help to consolidate information gathering that the Department expects may lead to greater efficiencies in the environmental review process.
Following the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) announcement for a public consultation reviewing the current rules restricting the advertising of condoms and pregnancy advisory services, leading sexual health agency Marie Stopes International (MSI) issued the following statement:
TOWN OF ULSTER >> Town Board members joined the growing list of municipal officials asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation to take the lead agency role in reviews of the Pilgrim Pipeline system largely planned for the state Thruway corridor.
I think the DEC should also be concerned that the overwhelming opposition by towns, cities and counties to Thruway Authority lead agency status could weaken confidence in the review process if both are lead.»
ROSENDALE >> Town Board members have voted to send state Department of Environmental Conservation officials a message that the state Thruway Authority should not share the lead agency role for reviews of the $ 553.2 million Pilgrim Pipeline proposal to build two petroleum lines.
«During the 30 - day period from November 16th to December 16th, 2015, at least 29 towns, cities and counties in the direct path of the two proposed oil and refined products pipelines — over 85 percent of the total — objected to the Thruway Authority's proposal to act as Lead Agency for the (state Environmental Quality Review Act) process,» town officials wrote.
On Wednesday, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein said he filed a letter with the DEC asking that the Thruway Authority's request to act as lead agency for the environmental review be denied.
«The City of Kingston was quite explicit that the Thruway Authority should not be involved as lead agency for the environmental review of Pilgrim's proposed pipelines, and we voted unanimously to demand the DEC instead,» said Ward 1 Alderman and outgoing Common Council Majority Leader Matt Dunn in a statement posted on the KingstonCitizens.org website.
She said the DEC is the best agency to lead the review, especially since the Thruway Authority has never done a review of a major petroleum pipeline and some of the land involved is outside the authority's control.
Lynn Johnson, a member of the city's Conservation Advisory Council, asked the Common Council's Public Safety Committee on Wednesday to adopt a memorializing resolution requesting the DEC act as lead agency of the review instead of the state Thruway Authority.
Pilgrim Pipeline developers filed an occupancy permit with the Thruway Authority in August, but only made the paperwork public last week after issuing a notice to municipalities stating that the Thruway Authority was considering becoming lead agency for the review.
Diaz's opposition to LGBTQ rights dates back to his denunciations — while serving on the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city's police oversight agency — of the 1994 Gay Games in New York, which he warned would lead to a spike in AIDS cases and to greater acceptance of homosexuality.
The Western New York Welcome Center received funding as part of Phase II of the Buffalo Billion and construction work got started a few months ago after the Town of Grand Island approved the state environmental quality review (SEQR) and made the state the lead agency on the project.
Leading scientific organizations are calling on President Donald Trump and his administration to ensure that an ongoing review of the role of scientific advisory boards is transparent and upholds the integrity of the boards» science - driven information, and that accurate federal scientific data and information is maintained and made easily available on federal agency websites.
Mark Ferguson, director general of the funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), says the projects were first reviewed for scientific excellence by a panel of leading international researchers.
A resulting USDA review of all its public postings led the agency to scrub from its website documents generated under both the Horse Protection Act and the Animal Welfare Act.
Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.
A violation of NIH rules involving one peer - review panel led the agency recently to re-review 60 applications that the committee had evaluated.
Gilman, who came to the agency from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has prided himself on setting up a peer - review system made up of scientists from outside Texas and led by Phillip Sharp, a fellow Nobelist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist.