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The 2019 construction of a green storage building on the site of a proposed waste facility in Schuyler County does not violate state rules that ban construction activity without a permit, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has ruled.
“The property owner (Bob Mente) has used it for storage unrelated to solid waste management,” the DEC said in a statement to WaterFront Oct. 9. “The … building would require additional construction before any solid waste management, including processing and storage, would commence.”