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Hearings and meetings
PERMIT
STATUS
Wetlands
dredge & fill (NH Department of Environmental Services) Application
submitted March 4, 2004; conditional
permit issued July 29, 2004. Request
for reconsideration (appeal) submitted August 18, 2004. On April 23,
2004 the Tamworth
Conservation Commission submitted its recommendations
on the application to DES. The committee examining the applications
found many inadequacies. The DES hearing
on
April 27 was packed. Focus: Tamworth experts from Rath, Young &
Pignatelli, Haley & Aldrich and Harris, Miller, Miller & Hanson
submitted detailed analysis to the DES. In light of the
passage of SB 458, the TCC submitted additional
comments to the DES on May 11, 2004. In
early May, officials of DES and the US Army Corps of
Engineers visited the site to do a new delineation of its wetlands. Additional wetlands
were identified.
In
a letter dated May 21, NH DES asked CMI to submit more information and
change its track design. See press
release and the DES
request letter for details. CMI re-submitted its application early in July. On
July 29, DES issued a permit with 36 conditions. On
August 18, a group of more than 30 Tamworth property owners appealed
this permit decision. At a hearing on April 12, 2005, the NH Wetlands
Council declined to accept the appeal.
Site
specific (NH DES) Application
submitted March 16, 2004; permit issued with conditions September 20,
2004.
Section
404 (US Army Corps of Engineers) Application
submitted March 4, 2004 ACOE
"noticed"
the CMI application July 13, 2004. The comment period was extended to
October 16, 2004. ACoE held a hearing
on October 6, 2004 in Tamworth. At the end of January, 2005 ACoE hired a
noise expert to analyze two conflicting noise studies. The analysis will
take "several weeks." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is also involved. Permit
issued August 2005. Focus:
Tamworth sent a letter to ACOE official Mike Hicks requesting
reconsideration, based on information from the ACOE noise expert
obtained by F:T under the Freedom of Information Act. Mr. Hicks declined
to reconsider; a challenge to the permit
was filed in U.S. District Court October 9.
Section 401 water
quality certificate (DES) Application
submitted March 4, 2004; permit
issued with conditions March 22, 2005.
Appeal filed by St. Andrew's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church and more than
forty other abutters and Tamworth residents on April 22. See press
release. This appeal was settled when CMI agreed to redesign
its fuel-handling plans and made several other concessions.
Tamworth
Wetlands Ordinance Application
for a special use permit submitted June 21, 2004. Application withdrawn August
23, 2004 A July 21 hearing
by the Tamworth Planning Board, which is responsible for issuing the
Special Use Permit (SUP), was continued
to August 25th to allow notices to go out to other towns in
the region. The August hearing was
held, but the only action was to read a letter from CMI
withdrawing its application. About 125 people attended. Click here
for the text of the ordinance. A
December, 2005 court order ruled that the CMI needs an SUP to start
construction. New application for an SUP
submitted on August 3, 2006.
The planning
board began the consideration process on August 23. A public hearing was
held October 17, and will be continued at the next Planning Board
meeting October 25. Press
release.
Tamworth
hazardous waste ordinance Application
not submitted. Does not apply per December 2005 summary judgment.
NH DOT
access to Rt 25 Obtained
Other
permits:
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Storm
water - construction general permit
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Water
supply engineering permit
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Large
ground water withdrawal permit
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Groundwater
discharge permit
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Underground
or aboveground storage tank facility permit
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Tamworth
subdivision permit
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Tamworth
race track operations permit (if RSA 287-G is repealed)
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Additional
permits under the EPA Clean Air Act and NH dams regulations
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