Hartsville board votes to apply for lead agency role in process of bringing wind to Hartsville
The Hartsville Town board is requesting that the Department of Environmental Conservation approve the idea of Hartsville Town Hall becoming the lead agency for the next phase of the environmental impact statement.
Steve Dombert, the Hartsville Town Supervisor, is especially concerned about how loud the wind turbines could get, and does not want things to go in Hartsville the way they did in Cohocton. "Well we don't want to have a situation in Hartsville where the volume of complaints are generated that we are seeing in Cohocton," Dombert told our news department last night, after the Hartsville monthly meeting was over. "And we don't want to have a pattern of...sort of...no accountability after the project, and the difficulties that we see there, for rectifying those problems. We want to avoid them to begin with," Dombert said.
Up to this point, the Steuben County Industrial Development Agency has been the lead agent for the entire process of bringing a wind project to Hartsville. So if Hartsville town officials take over the role of lead agency, Hartsville will be replacing SCIDA's duties for that part of the environmental impact study.
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