§ 45-4. Environmental assessment form.

A. 

An EAF shall be prepared by or on behalf of any agency, board, body or officer of the Village in connection with any Type I action such agency, board, body or officer contemplates or proposes to carry out directly. For an unlisted action, an EAF in a short or long form may be prepared to facilitate a preliminary determination of environmental significance.

B. 

An application for permit or funding of a Type I action shall be accompanied by an EAF and, for an unlisted action, may be accompanied by a short or long form EAF as may be needed to assist the lead agency in making a preliminary determination of environmental significance. An applicant may prepare a draft EIS to accompany the application in place of the EAF. In lieu of an EAF, the Village Board or a lead agency having authority to adopt its own regulations may adopt a different procedure for reviewing environmental significance of unlisted actions. The lead agency shall make a preliminary determination of environmental significance of the action on the basis of the EAF, draft EIS or with respect to unlisted actions in accordance with its own procedures, as the case may be, and such other information it requires. Such determination shall be made within 15 days of its designation as lead agency or within 15 days of its receipt of all information it requires, whichever is later. For Type I actions, a determination of nonsignificance shall be noticed and filed as provided in Part 617.10(b); for unlisted actions, a determination of nonsignificance shall be sent to the applicant and maintained in accordance with Part 617.7(e) and 617.10(f). After a determination of nonsignificance, the action, including one involving a permit or funding, shall be processed without further regard to SEQR, Part 617 or this chapter.

C. 

The time of filing an application for approval or funding of an action shall commence to run from the date that the preliminary determination of environmental nonsignificance is rendered or, if in lieu of an EAF the applicant prepares a draft EIS, from the date the applicant files a draft EIS acceptable to the lead agency.