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Grand Island board votes to apply environmental review process while drafting battery storage law
Summary
Following resident concerns that an early attorney draft omitted environmental protections, the Grand Island Town Board voted unanimously to follow the town's environmental-review process (referred to in the transcript as "Seeker") while developing a proposed battery storage law. Board members said further review will inform mitigation language before adoption.
Councilman Kilmer moved and the board approved a motion to apply the town's environmental-review process to the drafting of a new battery storage law, following public comment that the initial attorney draft lacked protections addressing fire, water and human-health impacts.
Why it matters: Residents and board members said an environmental review at the law-drafting stage would identify potential adverse impacts and allow mitigation language to be written into the ordinance rather than added later. That step, advocates said, could reduce the need for costly revisions…
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