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Committee hears bill to align enhanced energy-plan reviews and cut duplicate hearings
Summary
A House Energy committee heard testimony on a bill (260781) that would require regional plans and enhanced energy-plan reviews to proceed on the same timeline, allow provisional RPC approvals, and fold the Department of Public Service’s public hearing into regional hearings to reduce duplication.
The House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee on Feb. 25 received testimony on committee bill 260781, which would change how regional and municipal enhanced energy plans are reviewed so Department of Public Service approvals and Land Use Review Board review occur on the same timeline. Catherine Dimitryk, executive director of the Northwest Regional Planning Commission, testified in favor of the procedural changes but said they do not alter policy.
Dimitryk said the measure is aimed at reducing duplicative agency processes and making reviews more efficient. “It makes the Land Use Review Board process and the Department of Public Service process travel on the same timeline,” she told the committee, describing a proposal that would send…
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