Corps Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement on Meadowlands Mills - Requests Public Comment.Business/Environmental Editors 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, today announced completion of a Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Meadowlands Meadowlands may refer to any of the following: Places
A notice of availability of the FEIS FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement FEIS Final Environmental Impact Report FEIS Fugitive Emissions Information System FEIS Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland will be published in the Federal Register in early July. The public comment period is open through Aug. 19, 2002. Comments should be submitted in writing to the New York District Corps of Engineers, ATTN ATTN Attention ATTN Atentamente (Spanish) ATTN A l'attention de (French: Care of) : Regulatory Branch, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1937, New York, NY 10278-0090. The FEIS was prepared to assist the Corps in evaluating a permit application submitted by Empire, Ltd., of Wood-Ridge, N.J. The application requests authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. under the Federal Clean Water Act and Rivers and Harbors Act to discharge approximately 2.5 million cubic yards of fill 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 Carlstadt and South Hackensack, in the Hackensack Meadowlands District of Bergen County, N.J. The project involves filling of wetlands to facilitate construction of a mixed-use commercial project to 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, with parking and roadways, are proposed for a portion of a 587-acre tract, which is owned by Empire, Ltd. The application proposes that the remaining acreage on the parcel be used for wetland mitigation MITIGATION. To make less rigorous or penal. 2. Crimes are frequently committed under circumstances which are not justifiable nor excusable, yet they show that the offender has been greatly tempted; as, for example, when a starving man steals bread to satisfy activities, including restoration, enhancement and preservation. The FEIS evaluates existing site conditions and potential impacts including cumulative impacts of the applicant's proposal, and of other alternative actions identified through a public process and the Corps' analysis. The FEIS also makes available for public comment a Draft Conformity Determination required under the Clean Air Act, which evaluates air emissions that project construction activities would generate. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement was issued in July 2000. Responses to DEIS comments are included in the FEIS. Two sessions of a public hearing were held on the project and the DEIS Aug. 29 and Sept. 25, 2000. Decisions on the appropriateness of alternatives discussed in the FEIS will be made after receipt of public comments. A Record of Decision will follow after the close of the FEIS comment period. Empire, Ltd. will also need to obtain approvals from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is a government agency in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is responsible for managing the state's natural resources and addressing issues related to pollution. NJDEP now has a staff of approximately 3,400. and the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (formerly the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission) is a regional zoning, planning and regulatory agency established by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature in 1969. . Corps officials note that there has been great 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 FEIS.
The final environmental impact statement may be requested from the
Corps of Engineers, or 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
New Jersey 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
432 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 Corps public notice announcing the availability of the FEIS and of a Clean Air Act Draft Conformity Determination can be accessed on the District's web site at http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/business/buslinks/regulat/pnotices |
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