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In the Matter of the Establishment of ORDER CALLING the Drainage and Stormwater PUBLIC HEARING Management District in the Town of Hamburg, County of Erie, New York WHEREAS, the Town of Hamburg (the “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 has determined it will need a dedicated sole 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; and WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town, pursuant to Article 12-a of the New York Town Law, desires to create a Town-wide Drainage and Stormwater Management District (the "District") to manage and fund the entire stormwater system; and WHEREAS, the boundaries of the District would include the entire Town, excluding the Villages of Hamburg and Blasdell; WHEREAS, the formation of the District will require the Town to comply with the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law and its implementing regulations at 6 NYCRR Part 617; “SEQRA”) and the Town’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Part 617 of the SEQRA implementing regulations, the Town Board has determined that developing and implementing the proposed District is an Unlisted Action; and WHEREAS, the Town Board directed the Town Engineer to prepare a Map, Plan and Report for, and to support the potential formation of, the proposed District (“Report”), in such detail as required by Section 209-c of the Town Law; and WHEREAS, the Town Board previously adopted a Resolution, dated August 10, 2026, calling for a public hearing on the establishment of the District; and WHEREAS, the Town Engineer has subsequently prepared and delivered to the Town Board an Amended Map, Plan, and Report (“Amended Report”) which accurately describes the proposed District and complies with the requirements of Section 209-c of the Town Law; and 48