Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

July 05, 2012

Dan Keefe, (518) 486-1868

Public Hearing Set for Mills & Norrie State Parks and Staatsburgh State Historic Site Draft Master Plan

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will hold a public hearing on a Draft Master Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Ogden Mills and Ruth Livingston Mills Memorial State Park, Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park and Staatsburgh State Historic Site at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at the Taconic Regional Headquarters, 9 Old Post Road Staatsburg, NY.

The master plan outlines OPRHP's vision for potential capital improvements, operational enhancements and natural and cultural resource stewardship within the parks and historic site for the next ten to fifteen years. Factors such as the availability of funding, the need to invest in rehabilitation of existing infrastructure, and other pressing needs in the entire state parks system will influence the feasibility and timing of the improvements.

Copies of the Draft Plan/DEIS are available for review at the offices of the agency contacts, the Staatsburg Library, 70 Old Post Road, Staatsburg and the Hyde Park Library, 2 Main Street, Hyde Park. The online version of the Master Plan/DEIS is available at the following publically accessible web site: http://nysparks.com/inside-our-agency/master-plans.aspx

Persons may provide comments at the hearing or in writing no later than the end of the comment period - Friday, August 10, 2012. All comments should be forwarded to one of the agency contact persons:

Linda Cooper, Regional Director
NYS OPRHP
Taconic Region
PO Box 308  
9 Old Post Road
Staatsburg, NY 12580
Phone: (845) 889-4100
Fax: (845) 889-8217

M. Pamela Otis, Director
Environmental Management Bureau
NYS OPRHP
Albany, NY 12238
Phone: (518) 474-0409 
Fax: (518) 474-7013

Or e-mailed to: Mills-Norrie.Plan@parks.ny.gov