Feds revoke major permit for STAMP industrial park [Video]

ALABAMA, N.Y. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dealt a major blow to the developers of a massive industrial park in rural Genesee County, notifying them this week that the agency would revoke a key permit needed to construct the park’s wastewater pipeline.

That pipeline in recent months has emerged as one of the most controversial components of the 1,250-acre Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park — STAMP — one of the largest industrial parks under construction in New York. It’s so far generated two lawsuits and its construction has resulted in the spilling of hundreds of gallons of drilling fluid in federally-protected wetlands.