NYRI public hearings to be held in Norwich and Hamilton
ALBANY – Chenango County residents will have a chance to express their views on New York Regional Interconnect without traveling to Utica or Oneonta after all.
According to a ruling earlier this week, the New York Public Service Commission has revised its original plan to hold public statement hearings and information forums in only three locations. The new hearing schedule includes a total of nine communities along the proposed 190-mile electric transmission line’s route, including Norwich and Hamilton.
“Our efforts to accommodate the various requests and balance them against competing consideration have resulted in a total of 13 public statement hearings and information forums,” stated Administrative Law Judges Michelle L. Phillips and Jeffrey E. Stockholm in the procedural ruling issued Monday. The two judges have been assigned to preside over the review process for NYRI’s Article VII application.
Locations were selected within seven counties that could be impacted by the project and within proximity of two others. Each of the planned sessions will take place within 20 miles of the project’s proposed primary and previously identified alternate routes.
According to the statement made by Phillips and Stockholm, the additional sessions “should facilitate the public’s opportunity and ability to provide comments and obtain additional information in person.”
Each session will begin with an hour-long information forum on the project presented by PSC staff and then will be followed by the public statement hearing. Community members who wish to speak will request time to do so by filling out a card at the hearing. Advance appointments are not required.
According to a PSC statement also issued on Monday, “the hearing will remain open and will continue until everyone wishing to speak has been heard or other reasonable arrangements have been made.”
The hearings will be broadcast in real time over the internet, at www.NewYorkAdmin.com. Transcripts from the hearings themselves will be included with records of the proceedings.
In addition to attending any of the public hearings, concerned parties may submit their comments directly by calling the PSC’s toll-free opinion line, using the public comment form on the PSC website or by mail.
Copies of NYRI’s article VII application are available for public review at local public libraries along the route including those in Norwich, Oxford, Sherburne, Bainbridge and Afton.
According to a ruling earlier this week, the New York Public Service Commission has revised its original plan to hold public statement hearings and information forums in only three locations. The new hearing schedule includes a total of nine communities along the proposed 190-mile electric transmission line’s route, including Norwich and Hamilton.
“Our efforts to accommodate the various requests and balance them against competing consideration have resulted in a total of 13 public statement hearings and information forums,” stated Administrative Law Judges Michelle L. Phillips and Jeffrey E. Stockholm in the procedural ruling issued Monday. The two judges have been assigned to preside over the review process for NYRI’s Article VII application.
Locations were selected within seven counties that could be impacted by the project and within proximity of two others. Each of the planned sessions will take place within 20 miles of the project’s proposed primary and previously identified alternate routes.
According to the statement made by Phillips and Stockholm, the additional sessions “should facilitate the public’s opportunity and ability to provide comments and obtain additional information in person.”
Each session will begin with an hour-long information forum on the project presented by PSC staff and then will be followed by the public statement hearing. Community members who wish to speak will request time to do so by filling out a card at the hearing. Advance appointments are not required.
According to a PSC statement also issued on Monday, “the hearing will remain open and will continue until everyone wishing to speak has been heard or other reasonable arrangements have been made.”
The hearings will be broadcast in real time over the internet, at www.NewYorkAdmin.com. Transcripts from the hearings themselves will be included with records of the proceedings.
In addition to attending any of the public hearings, concerned parties may submit their comments directly by calling the PSC’s toll-free opinion line, using the public comment form on the PSC website or by mail.
Copies of NYRI’s article VII application are available for public review at local public libraries along the route including those in Norwich, Oxford, Sherburne, Bainbridge and Afton.
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