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Town Board of the Town of Hamburg October 5, 2026 Meeting 4.6. SEQRA - Town of Hamburg Drainage and Stormwater Management WHEREAS, the Town of Hamburg, New York, County of Erie (“Town”) manages a drainage system which provides collection of the rainfall and snow melt runoff for properties within the Town and controls the quantity and quality of runoff into local, state, and federal waterways; and WHEREAS, the Town Board, pursuant to Article 12-A of the New York Town Law, desires to establish the Town of Hamburg Drainage and Stormwater Management District (“District”) to provide a dedicated source of funding to continue to construct, operate, and maintain sufficient stormwater infrastructure to comply with increasingly stringent permit requirements, provide sufficient capital to repair/replace aging infrastructure, and to address the effects of increasing precipitation as a result of climate change (“Project”); and WHEREAS, the Town Board is required to review the environmental impacts of the Project pursuant to Part 617 of the implementing regulations pertaining to Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law (“SEQRA”); and WHEREAS, on September 14, 2026, the Town Board adopted a resolution (i) determining that the formation of the District is an Unlisted Action, and (ii) accepting the Short Environmental Assessment Form for the District; WHEREAS, the Town Board has prepared a Full Environmental Assessment Form (Parts 1, 2, and 3) and received input from the public and its consultants, and has taken a hard look at the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the Project; and WHEREAS, the findings of this review indicate that the Project will not adversely affect the natural resources of the State and/or the health, safety and welfare of the public; and WHEREAS, the Town Board has reviewed the Project in accordance with the Town’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (“LWRP”) and has completed a Waterfront Assessment Form (“WAF”) for a Coastal Consistency determination and referred the Project to the LWRP committee, which recommended consistency. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Hamburg Town Board has determined that funding and implementing the Project is consistent with the LWRP, and will not result in any significant adverse impacts on the environment, including natural, archeological or historic resources, and a Negative Declaration is hereby issued, for the reasons set forth in the Environmental Assessment Form and 26