In case both the SGEIS and the regs weren’t enough to cover in one meeting, they’re also including the SPDES general permit for stormwater runoff.

ENB – Statewide Notices 9/28/2011

Public Notice

Combined Notice of Public Hearings on the Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) for Horizontal Drilling and High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing to Develop the Marcellus Shale and Other Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs and related proposed State Pollutant Discharge Elimination Permit (SPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges and proposed Regulations.

Pursuant to Articles 8, 17 and 70 of the Environmental Conservation Law and the State Administrative Procedures Act, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) will conduct a series of combined public hearings at the dates, times, and locations listed below for the purpose of accepting both verbal and written comments on the following:

1. The Revised Draft SGEIS on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program relating to the permitting of horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) available at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/75370.html;
2. The proposed SPDES General Permit (GP) for Stormwater Discharges from HVHF available along with its fact sheet at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/77251.html; and
3. The proposed regulations relating to HVHF revising and adding to 6 NYCRR Parts 52, 190, 550-556, 560, and Subparts 750-1 and 750-3, available at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/propregulations.html.

On September 7, 2011, NYS DEC, as SEQRA lead agency, published a notice of completion of the Revised Draft SGEIS in the Environmental Notice Bulletin (ENB) for public review available at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/enb/enb.html. The Revised Draft SGEIS includes among other things an assessment of potential significant impacts resulting from the proposed actions described above relating to High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing.

FOR EXAMPLES of SGEIS comments, both health related and other and resource materials SEE http://www.gasdrillingtechnotes.org

AND also
From: James Northrup
Subject: DEC is triple-dipping on the public hearings?

Prioritize, then respond 3 minutes per speaker is designed for the DEC to check off a political/ PR box (“We held 4 hearings and had 1500 speakers “) 60 seconds for the SGEIS, 60 seconds for the draft Regs., 60 seconds for SPDES

So be prepared to deliver a paper.

So would start by responding to the dSGEIS – that is the basis for the draft regulations
You can copy anything out of the DEC regs. onto Word doc or email format – Then highlight, add citations, commentary and copy paste the results into the DEC’s online response form or a snail mail response.

Use Bill Huston’s wiki site as a short-cut to generate multiple responses.

As described here:

If you would like to see some examples of sample response letters to the DEC, please seedSGEIS Responses, or http://tinyurl.com/dSGEIS-Responses

This video explains some ways to use these wiki sites to craft responses online and via snail mail. http://my.brainshark.com/SGEIS-Responses-614385127

Same drill — feel free copy items off the wiki sites, edit them, add your own citations, etc. and submit your online and snail mail response

As described here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNiK_nl1jQ

Then respond to the regulations in writing http://tinyurl.com/FrackingRegulations

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