HARTWICK - The Hartwick planning board has reclassified Eddie Einhorn's plans for Cooperstown Baseball World from an unlisted action to a Type I.

The change required the board to rescind the conditional negative declaration given the project during last month's meeting. A similar change was made to the application for the Cooperstown Dreams Park when it was pointed out two weeks ago by a Glimmerglass Coalition lawyer that the acreage impacted by the proposal exceeded the threshold for classification as a type I project.

Planning board chairman Dick Kelly said he spoke with the town's environmental attorney Tom Fucillo and they both reached the conclusion that the Baseball World project also exceeded the limit for unlisted actions.

The Baseball World's application had been given a conditional negative declaration for the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) based on the understanding that additional archeological studies would be completed and that development of the property would not impact those areas.

But regulations say that Type I actions - ones which will more likely have a significant impact on the environment - cannot be given conditional negative declarations.

Joe Durand of Plumly Engineering, who is handling the site plan review application for Baseball World, said the mistake in classifying the project was his.

Originally, the project was below the size limit for unclassified projects, but when Durand submitted new information to the board, the project had been reconfigured to avoid impacting those sites where cultural resources had been found during an archeological study and had exceeded the limit.

Durand said when the size of the project changed, he neglected to amend the application. "This is an oversight on my part," he said.

Additional archeological investigations are currently underway at the site. The Public Archeological Facility at SUNY Binghamton is going to conduct a Stage I-B study, Durand said.

The additional study should not take too long and Durand said they hope to have everything together in time for the May meeting of the planning board.

Durnand said any comment concerning whether the delay will preclude them from having a season in Hartwick would have to come from Baseball World officials.

Cooperstown Baseball World president and CEO Jim Carpenito said Tuesday they are reconsidering all their options at this point.

"The degree of difficulty with what we previously anticipated to be a routine request for some baseball fields without dormitories and without construction of any significant buildings became a regulatory minefield," he said.

Capenito added that as tough as it has been for them it has also be hard on the planning board who also has had to deal with a flood of regulations and red tape. "Economic development is going to be difficult for years to come," he said.