A portion of the plans for the Lehigh Valley Hospital - Carbon Campus received conditional plan approval as long as outstanding items that are required under Mahoning Township’s Land Development Ordinance are adequately addressed.

On Tuesday, the Carbon County Planning Commission again reviewed the plan for the sewage facilities planning module as part of the hospital project at the intersection of East Blakeslee Boulevard and Troxell Road in Mahoning Township.

Ivan O. Meixell Jr., county planner, said LVHN resubmitted the plans because the network had addressed about 20 comments that the commission previously had.

The sewage facilities planning module is still outstanding on the state’s part. Mahoning Township approved the module and forwarded it to the Department of Environmental Protection.

In addition, other items that still remain outstanding are currently in the works but are waiting on responses from various state agencies.

Meixell said that because items that are outstanding are in the process of being addressed between the health network, Mahoning Township, Carbon County Conservation District, DEP, PennDOT and the Federal Aviation Administration, he recommended conditional approval be made and sent to Mahoning Township.

This portion of the project between Lehigh Valley Health Network and the Oscar E. Beck Family Trust was reviewed by the county planning commission in June and called for cutting out a 0.08-acre section of the Beck Family Trust and combining it with two small parcels owned by the Mahoning Township Municipal Authority that would be used for the sewage pump station for the hospital.

LVHN is proposing to construct a two-story, 85,000-square-foot hospital, a two-story medical building, 345 parking spaces and heliport at the East Blakeslee Boulevard location.

In March, the planning commission also gave conditional plan approval for one action regarding another subdivision off of the Oscar E. Beck Family Trust land. That action with LVHN subdivided 34.57 acres into two lots at the north side of East Blakeslee Boulevard near the intersection of Troxell Road.

Also in March, a letter from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission that was sent in December noted that the 35-acre piece of land must have a Phase 1 archaeological study completed because “there is high probability that National Register significant archaeological sites are present within this project area,” which could be “adversely affected by project activities.”