Please take notice that Maine Paddling and Cycling Trails, 60 Cuttermill Road, Suite 214, Great Neck, NY 11021, 212-303-0214 is intending to file a Permit Application with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to the Site Location of Development Act permit application under the provisions of 38 M.R.S.A. §§ 481 thru 490, as well as a Natural Resources Protection Act permit application pursuant to the provisions of 38 M.R.S.A §§ 480-A thru 480-BB on or about February 17, 2017. The application is for the permitting of an outdoor education campus and recreational trails on a parcel of land in Soldiertown Township, Maine.
The Site Location application will include a request, pursuant to 12 M.R.S.A. § 685-B(1-A)(B-1), that the Land Use Planning Commission (Commission) certify to the Department that the development is an allowed use in the subdistricts in which it is proposed and that the development will comply with applicable Commission land use standards that are not considered in the Department's review.
Both applications, including the request for certification, will be filed for public inspection at the Department's office in Bangor. The Site Location application and request for certification will also be available for inspection at the Commission's office in East Millinocket during normal working hours.
A Public Informational Meeting will be held at the Katahdin Higher Education Center, located at 1 Dirigo Drive, Suite 1 in East Millinocket, Maine starting at 6:00 P.M. on February 2, 2017. The purpose of this meeting is to provide information about this project to any interested parties.
A request for a Department public hearing must be received by the Department in writing, no later than 20 days after the application is found by the Department to be complete and is accepted for processing. A public hearing on the Site Location application may or may not be held at the discretion of the Commissioner or Board of Environmental Protection. Public comment on the Site Location application will be accepted by the Department throughout the processing of the application.
Written public comments on the Applications may be sent to the Department's regional office in Bangor where the applications are filed for public inspection: MDEP, Eastern Maine Regional Office, 106 Hogan Road, Bangor, Maine 04401
A request for a Commission public hearing on the request for certification and/or a petition for leave to intervene in any such hearing must be received by the Commission in writing no later than 20 days after the request for certification is found by the Commission to be complete and accepted for processing. The Commission will consider the degree of public interest when determining whether to hold a public hearing, but the decision whether to hold a hearing is at the Commission's discretion. If the Commission holds a public hearing, members of the public also may offer testimony at the hearing without formally intervening in the hearing, and/or may submit written comments until the close of the record. A request or petition that is not timely filed will be denied unless the requestor/petitioner shows good cause for failure to file on time. Filing may be by electronic mail or facsimile if followed by receipt of an original signed document within five working days. The Commission's provisions for intervention may be found in Chapter 5, section 5.13 of the Commission's rules, which are available at:
[u]www.maine.gov/dacf/lupc/laws_rules/rule_chapters/additional_chapters.html[/u].
Jan. 25, 2017
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