By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe is asking the Town of Massena to allow them to place a kiosk at the town’s canoe launch on state Route 37 near the Alcoa East plant. Although he says he isn’t opposed to the idea, the town supervisor wants to know what the tribe wants to put there before agreeing.

“I would hope the town would have a say in content,” Town Supervisor Joseph Gray said. “My bet is it will be environmental … We need to have a clear understanding of any statements that will be on that kiosk.”

There are ongoing environmental cleanup projects at the former General Motors site, now owned by the RACER trust, and on the Grasse River, financed by Arconic, which split from Alcoa and is cleaning up Alcoa pollution.

The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in the past has publicly expressed dissatisfaction with efforts at both sites.

“I’m not opposed to environmental information, but there’s a lot of things that can be written in a lot of different ways,” Gray said. “Everyone knows what the environmental legacy of that river and the Grasse and I’m concerned we’re going to blare that from trumpets for years to come.”

Councilman Albert Nicola said there would be “no money involved.”

“They just want to put a kiosk out and for us allowing them if we do, we’ve got to pay them if we want to use it,” Nicola said. “They’re four sided. We would have a panel and they would have three. We don’t have to use it if we don’t want to use it.”