No decision to carry out or approve an action other than an action listed in §
129-3B hereof or 6 NYCRR 617.12 as a Type II action shall be made by the Building Inspector or Planning Board or by any department, board, commission, officer or employee of the village until there has been full compliance with all requirements of this chapter and 6 NYCRR 617; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting:
A. The conducting of contemporaneous environmental, engineering,
economic feasibility or other studies and preliminary planning and budgetary
processes necessary to the formulation of a proposal for action which do not
commit the village to approve, commence or engage in such action; or
B. The granting of any part of an application which relates
only to technical specifications and requirements, provided that no such partial
approval shall entitle or permit the applicant to commence the action until
all requirements of this chapter and 6 NYCRR 617 have been fulfilled.
For the purpose of assisting in the determination of whether an action
may or will not have a significant effect on the environment, applicants for
permits or other approvals shall file a written statement with the Planning
Board setting forth the name of the applicant, the location of the real property
affected, if any, a description of the nature of the proposed action and the
effect it may have on the environment. In addition, applicants may include
a detailed statement of the reasons why, in their view, a proposed action
may or will not have a significant effect on the environment. Where the action
involves an application, the statement shall be filed simultaneously with
the application for the action. The statement provided herein shall be upon
a form prescribed by resolution by the Planning Board and shall contain such
additional relevant information as shall be required in the prescribed form.
Such statement shall be accompanied by drawings, sketches and maps, if any,
together with any other relevant explanatory material required by the Planning
Board.
Upon receipt of a complete application and a statement, the Planning
Board Chairman shall cause a notice thereof to be posted on the signboard,
if any, of the village maintained by the village and may also cause such notice
to be published in a newspaper having general circulation within the village,
describing the nature of the proposed action and stating that written views
thereon of any person shall be received by the Planning Board no later than
a date specified in such notice.
Every application for determination under this chapter shall be accompanied
by a reasonable fee set forth in this section to defray the expenses incurred
in rendering such determination. The application fee shall be ten dollars
($10.).
No decision to carry out or approve an action which has been the subject
of a final environmental impact statement by the Planning Board or by any
other agency shall be made until after the filing and consideration of the
final environmental impact statement. Where the Planning Board has been the
lead agency for an action, it shall make a decision whether or not to approve
the action within thirty (30) days of the filing of the final environmental
impact statement.
The village shall maintain files open for public inspection of all notices
of completion, draft and final environmental impact statements and written
determinations prepared or caused to be prepared by the Planning Board.
Where more than one (1) agency is involved in an action, the procedures
of 6 NYCRR 617.4 and 617.8 shall be followed.
Actions undertaken or approved prior to the dates specified in Article
8 of the Environmental Conservation Law for local agencies shall be exempt
from this chapter and the provisions of Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation
Law and 6 NYCRR 617; provided, however, that if, after such dates, the Building
Inspector or Planning Board modifies an action undertaken or approved prior
to that date and the Planning Board determines that the modification may have
a significant adverse effect on the environment, such modification shall be
an action subject to this chapter and 6 NYCRR 617.
Any and all fees prescribed by and used in relation to this chapter
shall be modifiable by resolution of the Village Board of Trustees.