Critical Environmental Areas
CEA's
Local agencies may designate specific geographic areas within their boundaries as "Critical Environmental Areas" (CEAs). State agencies may also designate geographic areas they own, manage or regulate.
Contact the designating agency for more information concerning a specific Critical Environmental Area.
To be designated as a CEA, an area must have an exceptional or unique character with respect to one or more of the following:
- a benefit or threat to human health;
- a natural setting (e.g., fish and wildlife habitat, forest and vegetation, open space and areas of important aesthetic or scenic quality);
- agricultural, social, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational, or educational values; or
- an inherent ecological, geological or hydrological sensitivity to change that may be adversely affected by any change.
Following designation, the potential impact of any Type I or Unlisted Action on the environmental characteristics of the CEA is a relevant area of environmental concern and must be evaluated in the determination of significance prepared pursuant to Section 617.7 of SEQR.
Where available, a link to a map of the Critical Environmental Area is provided. If a county is not listed below, there are presently no Critical Environmental Areas in that county.
- Critical Environmental Areas in Broome County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Columbia County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Cortland County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Delaware County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Dutchess County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Erie County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Essex County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Kings County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Madison County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Monroe County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Nassau County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Onondaga County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Ontario County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Orange County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Oswego County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Putnam County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Queens County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Rockland County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Saratoga County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Schenectady County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Schoharie County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Schuyler County
- Critical Environmental Areas in St. Lawrence County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Steuben County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Suffolk County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Tioga County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Tompkins County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Ulster County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Warren County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Washington County
- Critical Environmental Areas in Westchester County
