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» So is
it was developed through quite a bit of

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discussion?
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I think some of your staff needs to
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make a comment
the company not the county is

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responsible for
improvements and repairs.

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This is the one that's on the block.
There are 10 different

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» trans west.
It's a trans

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don't see a lot of responsibility that

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we wouldn't norally with them with
me responsible for getting engineer the

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thing that needed to be changed and they
had to pay for the improvements. It's I

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think I think our department heads need
to look at it. Yeah, folks involved

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because they'll give us some more heads
up than what we want. So

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» yeah, I agree and so we haven't done
that previously. So that for a minute

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» maybe right now we go on to the next
item or I'll just go to the next item.

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» Okay, I'll move to go to the next item
on the agenda. 10:30.

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Uh we're starting 10:25
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discussion possible approval letter of
support for Kash Band Indians community

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development block grant application.
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so I had a phone call the other day. The
uh Kamosh banded tribunal, the travel

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plaza down there by Co for um they're
looking for a grant. They want to expand

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that that gas station, that service
center on the west side, I believe, of

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the freeway. Um, just from
talking to him, it sounds like they want

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to make it more of a truck type stop and
add full service showers, B more

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bathrooms,
um, RV an RV spot. Um, I I I think it's

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just to expand it into more of a full on
truck stop than than anything. So,

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they're looking for a grant to
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to help with that. And so they they
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to help them in that grant process.

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trying
um they don't have a representative

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here.
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» So it's just
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I don't know if you want if you want to
look through that letter real quick.

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That's gives you a better idea. But

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where's the letter at? Um,
you get the No, I think I just sent it

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» John, if it's approved at Marquee, I
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signatures on it and send it back to
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» Yeah, I'll put it on letter head and
then this down.

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» Yeah, if you could if it's
>> Here's the letter.

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» Want to review a little bit? Yeah,
as a mom.

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» Well, the the only thing I ask, they're
allowed on reservations to do some

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things that's really not I wouldn't say
inconsistent with state law. Is that

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what they're proposing?
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maybe just bathrooms, showers.
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added added fuel service station for I
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» Yeah.
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that exit. It's on the south exit. I see
there's a little

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freeway. That's the single gas station.
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Okay.
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gas station on the west side of the
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» Are they ask businesses for them because
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» H
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because there's a you might need to look
into a few things because there's a I've

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gotten flagged on a few things from the
state tax commission people saying I

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need to look into that. But is that my
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cuz I I don't know if it's not on the
reservation.

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» So I would I would say they need it. Now
if it was on the reservation I I doubt

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we would have that any jurisdiction to
do that. But since do they have to go I

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mean the properties have to go through
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permit.
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um they might have to go through that.
They're just trying to get the grant

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right now.
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» Yeah, they're working on they're not
they haven't started anything.

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» They haven't started anything.
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this grant.
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support.
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» They not do any of it. They haven't done
any of the permitting stuff.

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» I'm I'm good at them exploring it. Then
we can make all those decisions.

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» So, is that a motion?
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letter to explore some development over
there to support the grant.

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» Yeah.
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Okay.
10:30 public hearing for the purpose of

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receiving public comment on the C2
conditions permit application Z 2025 444

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solar energy system on property located
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miles west of Clear Lake near Pop
Mountain Road and State Highway 257

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Neptune Solar Energy Park LLC is the
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You're going to need that to proceed.
And somebody is somebody here from the

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Okay. You can get up and explain it
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Sorry. Can I get a motion?
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hearing. Are you sure?
All in favor?

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» I just want to state your name with
Yeah. My name is Robert Wilson. I'm

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senior development manager with
Renewables. We are a kind of sister

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company for the entity Q cells a
domestic solar panel manufacturer and

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EPC contractor.
Okay. Um you want to just explain about

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the project that we're uh solar energy
park is a 199 megawatt uh for voltaic

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solar energy facility. Um we haven't
executed interconnection agreement with

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Pacific or Rocky Mountain Power. Um it's
cited on BLM lands. We're just about to

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enter in the neoscoping period for an
environmental assessment and we've

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completed the variance process under
which we did all of our habitat surveys

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um wetland delineations
um biological studies and all that uh to

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research the site. Um the project would
provide power to roughly 40,000 uh Utah

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homes um and would tap into the Black
Rock substation right there uh just

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north or northeast of uh Pot Mountain.

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» How many acres do you plan on covering
with these solar panels?

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» Roughly 1,000 acres. I think it's 1,32
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Did you say you manufacture these?
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that manufacture solar panels um in the
United States. Um they're a sister

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company called QELS uh owned by Hanwa
Group and uh we are the developers for

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the utility scale solar energy projects.
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» I guess I should let the public go
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» Yeah. Sorry. That's all right. I don't
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uh, any public comment?
Okay. If not, I'll entertain a motion to

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leave.
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I say,
>> all in favor?

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» I I Okay. Uh discussion and possible
approval of C2 conditional use permit Z

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for a solar energy system

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uh on property located 8 mi west of
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State Highway 257 Neptune Solar Park LLC
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commissioner. Now you can
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10,32 acres. This is coming,32.
What?

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» 1,032.
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» Okay. Is this
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on the east side of 257?
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there.
>> You know where Sunstone is? No.

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» Like if you looked across. I mean, it's
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» there's kind of those DS like those
trains. There's some type of little

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converter station or there's a bunch of
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» Yeah.
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the highway. Okay.
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to get the lease agreement with BLM.
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will issue after we finish the roughly
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» Uh NEPA scoping. The next question.
So we're down over reversal.

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» Yeah. Um
we submitted our application to the BLM

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about 2 years ago. Um we've completed
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with the BLM on a regular basis. We
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Um right now we're just waiting for the
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enter the NEPA scoping period. And under
current rules that can take no longer

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than 12 months.
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Power,
>> the interconnection agreement, right?

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From Utah Power.
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» Okay. So how do you get it from there
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» From there back to where?
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power you produce?
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substation.
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» Yeah. and and then it goes into Pacific
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» Okay.
>> Um similar, you know, it's kind of like

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dropping a cup of water into a bucket of
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enter into their interconnection system,
it goes to wherever it's needed. And so

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it will be um powering Utah homes um
close to California. No, I mean it's um

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so in in Utah it's a regulated market
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Mountain Power, Pacific Corp, they're
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rate payers. Uh so it's likely that our
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Pacific Corp or Rocky Mountain Power. Um
there are also mechanisms called what we

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call a green sleeve where you might have
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example Meta or Microsoft um where they
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renewable energy credits from our
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power that they consume. But the power
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the path of least resistance in Pacific
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ahead?
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Either Rock Mountain Power or um you
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Utah Renewable Communities. um they're
kind of a a cooperative in both the

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Wasatch front and was back and elsewhere
in Utah that kind of come together and

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then purchase renewable energy. Well, I
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there's there's a movement now in the
legislature that obviously Utah's been

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producer for a lot of other people that
the priority of Utah production should

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stay in Utah unless there's no place for
it. Sure. Yeah. I mean, I I just

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attended Mike Lee's um conservative
climate summit and you know, the the

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broad message that I think is being
pushed in Utah is is an all of the above

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energy strategy where they're trying to
procure as much as they can, especially

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with a lot of the new data center demand
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west.
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» right? There isn't one that's
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» Yeah. Just so was your group, the group
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trucks running around. Um, it could have
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of surveyors out there, uh, doing
environmental studies, um, habitat

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assessments. We've also done things like
alta surveys uh, to get property

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boundaries and that sort of thing. Um,
last September I was with uh the BLM and

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representatives from the Pyute Indian
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visit. So we, you know, walked around
Pop Mountain and around the site uh

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taking pictures and and kind of looking
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whether they had any cultural
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charge you a lease? Yep.
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» It would be it's actually what they call
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» you pay a lease agreement. You pay
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would you?
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kind of a rent calculator. But it
changes every year based on, you know,

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property values. And then
every four years it seems like the

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Department of the Interior has a
different way of assessing what what

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rent they want to
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» yeah, but we we have to have kind of a
placeholder in our model of what we

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expect to be paying as operational
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» All right. Thank you very much.
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clarification or or just uh
there are the difference between the two

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applications. They're very similar. One
is the the generation itself, the solar

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installation. The other is the
transmission right away. So we treat

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those as two separate uses, two separate
permits. same project. I probably should

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have mentioned that at the beginning.
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» two items. Yeah, we got an item number.
Skip it for now. Open a public hearing

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again for that one. So, but I'll
entertain a motion to

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a number of proposed conditions on this
and we've gone back and forth. The

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planning commission discussed it.
There's this isn't the first solar

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project we've seen. on about those and
with other projects at this point, but

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there's uh there's actually quite a a
quick list of them. Um

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there's uh everything from public safety
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road management agreements, site
security plan, fire prevention program,

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facility reclamation, and I know there
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» Yeah, I mean our only like we've
reviewed the conditions and we're

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comfortable with them. They're pretty
standard that we've seen on all of our

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projects. Um, our only consideration
that we might want to bring up is the

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BLM does require us to place a
decommissioning and remediation bond.

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Um, so there will be one in place
already. Uh, so you know you guys

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» that's the question I would have to
reclaim the bond. We we have to assure

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reclamation and I believe the question
is whether or not that that we just have

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that they shall post a bond guaranteeing
the reclamation and all of the

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improvements and I believe the question
that we will we accept that accept that

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we defer that um to the attorney's
office to see if that's just references

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there shall be one.
>> Okay. Go ahead. I was just going to say

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we