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Finding that No Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Needed for Proposed Wind Turbines Reinstated; But Denial of Special Use Permit Upheld

The Third Department reversed Supreme Court’s annulment of a negative declaration with respect to the need for an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a proposed wind turbine installation, but upheld Supreme Court’s denial of a special use permit based on violations of the Town Law’s public hearing and notice requirements (among other grounds).  In describing the review standards for the respondent planning board’s determination an EIS was not required, the Third Department wrote:

….[W]e begin our analysis by noting that an environmental impact statement (hereinafter EIS) is required “‘on any action . . . which may have a significant effect on the environment'”….   A  type I action, such as the project here, “carries with it the presumption that it is likely to have a significant adverse impact on  the environment” (6  NYCRR  617.4 [a] [1];…).   However,  when  a lead agency  “‘determine[s] either that there will be no adverse environmental impacts or that the identified adverse environmental impacts will not be significant,'” it may  issue a negative declaration and, in such instance, no  EIS is required…. “Although the threshold triggering an EIS is relatively low”…, judicial review of a negative declaration is limited to whether “the [lead] agency identified the relevant areas of environmental concern, took a hard look at them, and made a reasoned elaboration of the basis for its determination”….  In this regard, “[i]t is not the province of the courts to second-guess thoughtful agency decision making and, accordingly, an agency decision should be annulled only if it is arbitrary, capricious or unsupported by the evidence”…. Matter of Frigault v Town of Richfield Planning Board, et al, 515528, 3rd Dept 6-27-13

 

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