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4 Statewide Exclusionary Screening
4 Statewide Exclusionary Screening
Pages 49-57
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disposal facility. To accomplish this goal, the Siting Commission applied certain exclusionary criteria to the entire state to facilitate more detailed studies on the more promising areas.
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.2 Within this criterion, primary public water supply aquifers were defined by the DEC as "highly productive aquifers presently being utilized as sources of water by major municipal water supply systems." Principal aquifers were defined as "aquifers known to be highly productive or whose geology suggests abundant potential water supply, but which are not intensively usecI as sources of water supply by major municipal systems at the present time" (emphasis added)
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Criterion Federally Protected Lands Exclude all lands protectec! by the Fecleral government, including: National Wildlife Refuge System; f sh restoration areas; migratory birc!
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were excluded during later screening steps. Criterion 3~State-Protected Lands Exclude ad lands protected by New York State, including components of: New York State Wild, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers System; f sh restoration areas; State Park System, Aclironatack Park; Catskill Park; municipal parks established as of 31 December 1987; wildlife management areas; game refuges; game farms; f sh hatcheries; boat launches.
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National wilderness, national wildlife refuges, and national parks (36) Cities and towns with average population densities greater than 1,000 persons per square mile (32)
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Among the areas excluded were New York City, Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. Approximately 4 percent of the state was excluded using the ground water hydrology criterion; the Long Island Aquifer constituted more than 60 percent of this area.
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Informational materials available at these meetings included a program folder, five fact sheets, a program overview brochure, the summer 1988 issue of Frontline (the Siting Commission newsletter) , the Siting Plan and executive summary, the method selection plan and executive summary, the SESR and executive summary, and the draft environmental impact statement scoping issue document.
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The committee notes that the Siting Commission had essentially no discretion in this step of the screening process: state law or regulation precluded a disposal facility from all of the excluded areas. This portion of the selection process, the removal of land areas from further consideration, was generally seen as a positive step by observers contacted by the committee.
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