For Immediate Release: June 12, 2000
Contact:
Daniel Fitts | Executive Director | Adirondack Park Agency
contact@apa.ny.gov | (518) 891-4050
The Adirondack Park Agency will be holding its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on June 15th and 16th at its Ray Brook headquarters. Highlighting the Agency’s agenda are a field trip to the Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation on Thursday, and on Friday, a presentation by Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform Acting Director David Bradley.
The Agency will convene at 9 a.m. Thursday at its headquarters in Ray Brook. After routine business, the Regulatory Programs Committee will convene to hear an update on the simple project permit application and a staff presentation on noise as a development consideration. The Committee will also consider three projects, including Paul Smith’s College’s proposed regional resource information center in Brighton, Franklin County; and the Department of Environmental Conservation’s proposed reclamation projects involving Palmer Pond in Harrietstown, Franklin County, and Little Rock and Rock Ponds in Ticonderoga, Essex County.
At 11 a.m. the Administration Committee will meet to discuss the Agency’s regulatory program, including the review of projects, procedure and the Committee of Three. The Committee will also review the existing towers and third party submission policies, as well as the scheduling of field trips and committee meetings.
The Park Policy and Planning Committee will meet at 1:30 to consider map amendment requests in the Town of Queensbury and Otter Lake. Also at 1:30, the Legal Affairs Committee will continue the Agency’s priority work in regulatory reform with a discussion of the redrafting of the remaining twenty-seven technical definitions, as well as reports on the previous day’s meeting with technical advisors asked to provide input to the process, the recently completed public hearings, and the development of recommendations for the next steps in the revision effort. The Enforcement Committee will also convene to consider enforcement matters in Clifton, St. Lawrence County, and Jay, Essex County.
At 3:30 the Park Ecology and Local Government Services Committees will convene. The Park Ecology Committee will visit the Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation offices where members will receive an introduction to the program from its director, Walt Kretser, followed by an update on joint projects undertaken by the ALSC and the Agency relating to Adirondack lake resource information outreach and nuisance aquatic plant species mitigation efforts. At the same time, the Local Government Services Committee will hear a staff presentation on the amendment review process and will consider amendments proposed to the Bolton and Lake George local planning programs.
On Friday, June 16th, at 9 a.m. David Bradley, Acting Director of the Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform, will brief the Agency on GORR’s programs and functions, including an update on the Governor’s "Build Now - New York" and "On-line Business Permitting" initiatives. The Agency will then receive and act on the committee reports.
The Agency’s next meeting will be July 13th and 14th at its Ray Brook headquarters.
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