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Office of Energy and Mineral Resources outlines energy-resilience grants, nuclear task force and home rebate request
Summary
Administrator Callie Junger told the joint budget committees OEMR is largely federally funded, is pursuing nuclear-policy work via a governor’s task force and RFI responses, highlighted energy-resilience grants and a Home Energy Rebates Program request, and discussed permitting coordination and a possible merger with Species Conservation.
Noah Peterson, the Legislative Services Office analyst, introduced the Office of Energy and Mineral Resources (OEMR) budget and noted the office is housed in the governor’s office by executive order, has 11 FTP and is predominantly supported by federal grants. Peterson called out a prior $15 million general-fund transfer into OEMR’s miscellaneous revenue fund to serve as state match for federal energy-resilience projects and said the office expects many of those funds will be obligated to multi-year projects rather than expended immediately.
Callie Junger, OEMR administrator, described the office’s work administering grants for rural communities, relicensing hydropower projects, tracking geothermal lease sales and permitting coordination. "We are the liaison to…
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