Corps Completes DEIS on Meadowlands Mills Project.News Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2000 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of District, announced today that it has filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and in Washington, D.C., a draft environmental impact statement on the Meadowlands Mills development project proposed in New Jersey's Hackensack Meadowlands District. An announcement of the availability of the DEIS is scheduled to appear in the Federal Register on July 28. The draft environmental impact statement is being distributed to interested parties. The DEIS has been prepared to assist the Corps in evaluating a permit application submitted by Empire, Ltd. of Wood-Ridge, N.J. The application requests authorization under the federal Clean Water Act and Rivers and Harbors Act to discharge approximately 2.5 million cubic yards of fill material into 206 acres of wetlands and open waters adjacent to the Hackensack River The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 mi (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. in the boroughs of Carlstadt and Moonachie and the Township township: see town. of South Hackensack. Cooperating agencies in the DEIS process are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is a United States federal agency. A division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Commerce, NMFS is responsible for the stewardship and management of the nation's living marine , N.J. Department of Transportation, New Jersey Turnpike
The proposed mixed-use commercial project would be developed by the Mills Corporation The Mills Corporation was a publicly traded real estate investment trust headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States, acquired on April 3, 2007 by an investment group comprised of Simon Property Group and Farallon Capital Management. of Arlington, Va. A super-regional retail-entertainment center, office space, hotel, mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a facility, warehouse and distribution facilities, and associated parking structures and roadways are proposed for a portion of a 592-acre tract, which is owned by Empire, Ltd. The company has proposed that the remaining acreage on the parcel available after development be used for wetland mitigation activities, including restoration, enhancement and preservation. The DEIS evaluates existing site conditions and potential impacts, including indirect and cumulative impacts of the applicant's proposed action, and of other alternative actions identified through the public scoping process and the Corps' analysis of the project. Determinations on the appropriateness of alternatives will be presented in the final environmental impact statement after comments on the draft document are thoroughly reviewed and considered. Corps officials note that there has been a great deal of public interest in the project, and that interested parties have already offered many comments for and against the proposal. The Corps welcomes continued public participation in the process, and encourages the public to offer comments regarding the information included in the DEIS. A public hearing on the DEIS and the project will be held Aug. 29 from 1 to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. until the end of the hearing in the Henry P. Becton Regional High School Henry P. Becton Regional High School, "Becton," is an American four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from two relatively small communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, as part of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School auditorium auditorium Portion of a theater or hall where an audience sits, as distinct from the stage. The auditorium originated in the theaters of ancient Greece, as a semicircular seating area cut into a hillside. , Paterson Ave. and Cornelia St., East Rutherford Rutherford (rŭth`ərfərd), borough (1990 pop. 17,790), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of the New York City–N New Jersey metropolitan area; inc. 1881. Several pre-Revolutionary houses remain there. . The National Environmental Policy Act establishes a process to ensure that environmental information is available to public officials and citizens before decisions and actions are taken by Federal agencies. That input and information is developed through scoping sessions, development of the DEIS, and requirements for public notice, hearings and comment. The draft environmental impact statement may be reviewed at the following locations:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
New York District
26 Federal Plaza, Room 1937
New York, NY
(212) 264-0183
Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission
One Dekorte Park Plaza
Lyndhurst, NJ
(201) 460-1700
Carlstadt Free Public Library
420 Hackensack St.
Carlstadt, NJ
(201) 438-8866
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Information Resource Center
401 East State St.
Trenton, NJ
(609) 984-2249
East Rutherford Memorial Library
143 Boiling Springs Ave.
East Rutherford, NJ
(201) 939-3930
Johnson Public Library
274 Main St.
Hackensack, NJ
(201) 343-4781
Secaucus Free Public Library
120 Plaza Center
Secaucus, NJ
(201) 330-2084
Carlstadt Borough Clerk's Office
500 Madison St.
Carlstadt, NJ
(201) 531-7184
The hearing record will remain open until 5 p.m. Monday, September 11, 2000 for receipt of written comments. Comments should be sent to New York District Corps of Engineers, Regulatory Branch, Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building at 26 Federal Plaza in the Civic Center, Manhattan, New York City is a 40+ story structure which houses many government agencies. Because the New York City district field office of U.S. , Room 1937, New York, NY 10278-0090. The Corps public notice announcing the availability of the DEIS and public hearing on the DEIS and project (including a map and directions to the hearing location) can be accessed on the district's web site at http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/business/buslinks/regulat/pnotices Note to editors: Joseph J. Seebode, chief of the Regulatory Branch, New York District, will be available for comment at (212) 264-3996 until 6 p.m. today. |
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