IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE - SDEIS Phase I

Steuben County - The Planning Board of the Town of Cohocton, as lead agency, has accepted a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Cohocton Wind Power Project. A public hearing on the Draft EIS will be held on January 19, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wayland-Cohocton Elementary School, 30 Park Avenue, Cohocton, New York. Public comments will be accepted until February 1, 2007. The action involves Site Plan and Special Use Permit approval and all the permits and approvals necessary to construct and operate a wind-powered generating facility consisting of up to thirty-six (36) turbines with a capacity of up to ninety (90) megawatts, a 115 kV overhead transmission line, interconnect substation, collection substation, operations and maintenance building, electrical collection system, gravel access roads and necessary public road improvements, and up to three meteorological towers, on approximately 5,700 acres of private lands. The project is located in the Town of Cohocton, County of Steuben, State of New York. The turbines are proposed to be located primarily along Pine Hill and Lent Hill northeast of the Village of Cohocton. The transmission line will be located through the Cohocton River Valley south of the turbine area.