The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced a fifth information and listening meeting to provide the public with opportunity to comment on projections of future sea-level rise. This meeting, which will be in addition to four meetings announced previously by DEC, is scheduled for 4 p.m., Wednesday, June 24, at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Broad Channel, Queens. Directions are available at http://www.nyharborparks.org/visit/jaba.html.

DEC is developing a regulation to adopt state sea-level rise projections as required by the state’s Community Risk and Resiliency Act. Additional information on this law and the sea-level rise projection regulation, and the full meeting schedule are available at http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/100236.html.

For further information, contact Mark Lowery, Office of Climate Change, (518) 402-8448 or e-mail Mark.Lowery@dec.ny.gov.