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Town, In Reviewing a Special Use Permit Application Under Its Zoning Regulations after the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Process Is Complete, Must Rely on the SEQRA Findings and Cannot Make Further Environmental Impact Findings

In a mining-permit matter, the Third Department determined that, once a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is approved after the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) process is finished, the town (the lead agency) does not have the power to make further environmental-impact findings beyond those in the SEQRA record.  However, the town retains the power to do an independent review of the application for a special use permit under its zoning regulations:

…[A]lthough the Town is bound by DEC’s [Department of Environmental Conservation’s] SEQRA findings and it may not repeat the SEQRA process, it nevertheless retains the authority to make an independent review of plaintiffs’ application for a special use permit in accord with the standards and criteria set forth in its applicable zoning regulation … . That regulation provides that the Town may consider, among other things, the “health, safety, welfare, comfort and convenience of the public,” including “the environmental impact” of the proposed quarry (Local Law No. 2 [1986] of Town of Nassau art VI [A]). However, … the Town’s independent review [does not include] the ability to now gather additional environmental impact information beyond the full SEQRA record. Rather, in conducting its own jurisdictional review of the environmental impact of the project, the Town is required by the overall policy goals of SEQRA and the specific regulations governing findings made by “involved agencies” to rely on the fully developed SEQRA record in making the findings that will provide a rationale for its zoning determinations. Troy Sand & Gravel Co Inc v Town of Nassau, 2015 NY Slip Op 01511, 3rd Dept 2-19-15

 

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