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Lakeview Amphitheater Project:
Whats the Rush?
Timeline of the Process

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!"#$ &'( &)*+ uoveinoi anu County Executive announce $1uu million "0nonuaga Lake
ievitalization" pioject. The pioposeu amphitheatei on Wastebeus 1-8 is a key component.

,-.$ *+( &)*+ As legally iequiieu by the State Enviionmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA),
the County completes Pait 1 of the pioject's Enviionmental Assessment Foim.

,-.$ &/( &)*+ As legally iequiieu by SEQRA, the County completes Paits 2 anu S of the
pioject's Enviionmental Assessment Foim.

,-.$ &0( &)*+ As legally iequiieu by SEQRA, the County submits a uiaft scoping uocument
to the County Legislatuie foi ieview anu appioval. The uocument is available online.

123$ *( &)*+ 0nonuaga County Legislatuie votes that 0nonuaga County will seive as the
official leau agency in the SEQRA piocess, anu ueteimines that the amphitheatei pioject
may have a significant auveise impact on the enviionment. The legislatuie appioves the
Enviionmental Assessment Foim anu the uiaft scoping uocument, anu iesolves to make
these uocuments available to the public.

123$ **( &)*+ 0nonuaga County officially announces the ielease of the uiaft Scoping
Bocument foi the pioposeu amphitheatei foi public ieview.

4"5 *( &)*+ Boneywell submits Reviseu Remeuial Investigation (RI) foi Wastebeus 1-8 to
BEC, which contains a summaiy of contaminants founu on the site. This uocument
acknowleuges that inuustiial wastes othei than Solvay Waste ("co-uisposeu wastes") weie
uumpeu on the site. Contaminants in co-uisposeu wastes incluue benzene, toluene,
ethylbenzene, xylene, phenols anu heavy metals.

4"5 /( &)*+ Boneywell submits a Biaft Feasibility Stuuy (FS) uesciibing alteinative
uesigns foi iemeuiation of Wastebeus 1 - 8. Nost of the alteinatives leave contamination in
place anu iely on soil anuoi vegetative coveis to pievent exposuie. The FS uiaws on
limiteu infoimation about placement anu uesign of the pioposeu amphitheatei anu ielateu
amenities.
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4"5 *&( &)*+ Public comment peiiou on the Biaft Scoping Bocument closes.

4"5 &&( &)*+ 0nonuaga County ieleases Final Scoping Bocument with minimal changes
fiom the uiaft veision.

!6#- *( &)*+ 0nonuaga County submits a 6S4-page uiaft Enviionmental Impact Statement
(BEIS) foi the pioposeu Amphitheatei pioject to the County Legislatuie foi its ieview anu
appioval. The BEIS is available on-line.

!6#- &( &)*+ The 0S Enviionmental Piotection Agency (EPA) issues a Supplemental
Buman Bealth Risk Evaluation, which incoipoiates gieatei uetail about pioposeu
Amphitheatei uesign anu ielateu amenities. The BBRE is baseu on assessments conuucteu
foi the West Shoie Tiail anu fails to consiuei iisks to young chiluien (chiluien unuei 6
yeais olu). EPA finus that health iisks to amphitheatei attenuees aie within "acceptable"
ianges, but constiuction woikeis ueveloping the amphitheatei facilities shoulu weai
piotective clothing anu equipment to piotect themselves fiom wastebeu contaminants.

!6#- *0( &)*+ NYS BEC iesponus to Biaft FS, asking foi seveial changes. These incluue
uetaileu consiueiation of complete iemoval options anu auuitional explanation of
necessaiy monitoiing anu maintenance foi non-iemoval iemeuiation options.

!6#- *7( &)*+ The Post-Stanuaiu iepoits that the full New Yoik State Legislatuie passeu a
bill to "fast-tiack" constiuction of the amphitheatei by allowing the County to awaiu uesign
anu constiuction contiacts to the same biuuei.

!685 *( &)*+ The 0nonuaga County Legislatuie appioves the BEIS anu uiiects that it be
maue available foi public ieview anu comment. The uocument falls woefully shoit of
SEQRA legal iequiiements. Nultiple elements of the BEIS iely on yet-to-be-ueteimineu
planning anu uesign uocuments to mitigate expecteu enviionmental impacts. It fails to
auequately analyze impacts to wilulife, pioject costs anu benefits, oi a ieasonable iange of
alteinatives.

!685 '( &)*+ County holus a public infoimational meeting to unveil pieliminaiy plans foi
the amphitheatei. The meeting is helu in the community (Solvay) in the evening (S:Su
p.m.). The County publicly ieleases a 72S-page Conceptual Besign Repoit that pioviues
some auuitional uetail but uoes not coiiect ueficiencies in the BEIS. The public still uoes
not have access to ciitical infoimation incluuing a business plan, site iemeuiation plan, site
management plan, long-teim tiaffic mitigation plan, oi uetaileu constiuction plans foi
builuing on unstable Solvay Wastes.

!685 '( &)*+ Foimal public comment peiiou begins on BEIS. County announces that the
comment peiiou will iun until August 11
th
.

!685 &9( &)*+ County-scheuuleu public heaiing on the BEIS. This heaiing is N0T helu in
the affecteu community (Location: County Couit Bouse Legislative Chambeis, 4u1
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Nontgomeiy St Syiacuse, Room 4u7) oi in the evening (Time: 11 am). No othei public
heaiings aie scheuuleu.

:";- !685<="385 16>6?; &)*+ Anticipateu uate foi submittal of a uiaft iemeuiation plan
foi Wastebeus 1-9 (calleu Pioposeu Remeuial Action Plan oi PRAP) to NYS BEC by
Boneywell. uiven this scheuule, the PRAP may not be available to the public oi the County
befoie the close of public comment on the BEIS.

16>6?; /( &)*+ Responuing to citizen piessuie, the 0nonuaga County Legislatuie votes to
extenu the BEIS comment peiiou by 2S uays (until Septembei S
th
) anu to holu a seconu
BEIS public heaiing outsiue of woik houis (6 PN, August 26
th
). The Legislatuie also agiees
to holu public heaiings befoie boiiowing money foi the amphitheatei oi any othei pait of
the bioauei 0nonuaga Lake Revitalization Pioject, though no specific uates aie scheuuleu.

16>6?; &@( &)*+ County-scheuuleu public heaiing on the BEIS. Although this heaiing will
be helu outsiue of woiking houis (6 PN), it will N0T be in the affecteu community
(Location: County Couit Bouse Legislative Chambeis, 4u1 Nontgomeiy St Syiacuse, Room
4u7).

A-2;-B.-3 /( &)*+ Last uay foi the public to submit comments on the BEIS.

,"88 &)*+ County expects to bieak giounu on the pioposeu amphitheatei. This scheuule
piesumes no auuitional ieview baseu on the BEIS, no uelay in moving fiom the uiaft to the
final Enviionmental Impact Statement, anu no neeu to wait foi uetails of the final
iemeuiation plan to complete the uesign of the amphitheatei.

,"88 &)*/ County expects amphitheatei constiuction to be complete anu fiist
conceitshow to be helu in the pioposeu facility.

A23C#> &)*@ County expects amphitheatei to be fully opeiational anu to book a full season
of peifoimances in all venues.

,"88 &)&* Assuming that active iemeuiation of the site is complete by Fall 2u1S, when the
County books its fiist show in the venue, Remeuial Action 0bjectives (RA0s), which focus
on pieventing human anu wilulife exposuie to contaminants that will iemain on site, aie
expecteu to be fully achieveu.





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