JAY – Planning Board members approved the final plan for a subdivision amendment for the Jay Community Development Park subdivision Tuesday that will create a 12th lot at Jay Plaza.
The board’s approval had a condition that a letter from the Department of Transportation be submitted on a traffic study. Androscoggin Bank proposes to build a new full-service bank on the new lot at Jay Plaza, just south of McDonald’s Restaurant on Route 4.
The final plan will go before selectmen Monday for review.
The board also approved International Paper’s request for concept and Phase 1 approval to expand its landfill and also OK’d amendments to the company’s air permit.
The paper company plans to increase its 52-acre landfill on the east side by about 25.6 acres. About 2 to 3 acres of the existing landfill are used for waste disposal, 14 acres have been board-approved for final closure; the remaining areas are inactive and have cover systems designed to reduce the infiltration of precipitation, according to town information.
In the proposed expansion, 4.3 acres will be located east of the toe of the existing landfill and 21.3 acres will be located on top of the east slope of the existing landfill. The landfill will be about 33 feet higher than the existing special-waste landfill.
The expansion project will be constructed in five phases, with the first phase increasing it by 7.1 acres. It is estimated that the five phases will have a combined waste capacity of nearly 1.6 million cubic yards. It is estimated that, at a land-filling rate of 100,000 in-place cubic yards per year, the east side expansion project would have a life of nearly 16 years.
The board also approved a change in IP’s compliance-assurance action level for sulfur fuel content from 1.75 percent to 1.76 percent. That is expected to save the mill $80,000 a year, Environmental Supervisor Tom Saviello told the board.
It does not change the air permit levels of 1.8 percent of sulfur in the fuel, he said.
Up until this year, the difference between two types of fuels that are mixed together at times to control the sulfur level was $2 a barrel, he said. This year there’s a $14 a barrel difference, he said.
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