Public meeting: Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making – Saline Water Reclassification

When:

September 29, 2022: 2:00PM to 5:00PM

Where:

NYSDEC Region 2 office, 8th Floor, Conference Room 834, 47-40 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 map

To Attend:

No pre-registration is required

DEC filed an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) with the New York State Department of State on July 27, 2022. The ANPRM is a data gathering and public outreach exercise intended to inform future reclassification and water quality standard rule makings applicable to saline waters of the State, if appropriate. Saline waters potentially subject to reclassification are found in 6 NYCRR Parts 859, 864, 885, 890, 891, 920, 921, 922, 923, 924, 925, and 935. A full list of waters subject to possible reclassification is included in Table 1 of the ANPRM document (PDF). The effort may also result in amendments to water quality standards found in 6 NYCRR Parts 700-703.

The public notice of the ANPRM starts a 90-day data solicitation period where stakeholders may submit data to DEC in response to the ANPRM and the questions posed within it. The data solicitation period will close at midnight on October 25, 2022.

The ANPRM is not a regulatory action, but an opportunity to gather stakeholder data to inform future regulatory changes, if appropriate. As such, there are no regulatory impacts and no need for a rule making hearing.

ANPRM Public Information Meetings
DEC plans to hold two public information meetings in support of the ANPRM. These are not hearings, but opportunities for stakeholders to learn about the ANPRM process and ask questions about the data DEC seeks in response to the ANPRM.

This is the second of two Public Information Meetings and will be held in-person on September 29, 2022, at 2 p.m. at the DEC Region 2 office.

Date: September 29, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM
Address: NYSDEC Region 2 office, 8th Floor, Conference Room 834
47-40 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

No pre-registration is required for the in-person meeting. The opportunity to ask questions of DEC regarding the ANPRM will be afforded at the in-person meeting.

Reasonable Accommodations: DEC will provide interpreter services for hearing impaired people, and language interpreter services for individuals with difficulty understanding or reading English, at no charge upon written request submitted no later than August 15, 2022. The written request must be addressed to NYS DEC Office of Communication Services, 625 Broadway, 4th Floor, Albany, NY 12233-4500 or emailed to [email protected]