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[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Welcome back to the House Environment Committee. We have, draft letter to the Energy Committee on h seven two seven that we are going to take up right now. Members have had a chance to read that draft just posted a few minutes ago. Feeling like we're getting pretty close. Representative Chapin.
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: I just want to say there's a typo that a couple of people noticed that I'll correct, which is in that edited section C, in the middle of the first page, that'll say including stormwater instead of may including.
[Unidentified Member]: Which just scratch out the I g.
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: I think that actually the way Ledge Council usually uses this, it uses the word including, not which includes. Okay. That's been my experience over the years. They have a pretty specific way to do these lists, and including also does not mean exclusively this list. This is not an exclusive list of the Yes. Community Yes. Right. Which may is gone. It just says including stormwater, etcetera. You're not including? No, sorry. It was spelled right. It's an English word, no.
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Alright. Do folks have substantive comments on this h seven two seven letter?
[Unidentified Member]: I wonder, under water, the third sentence, fourth sentence, we are concerned about water resource impacts on data centers. I just wonder if that should be a bit stronger, like the immense amount of water or something. I mean, otherwise everybody's fine with it, that's fine, but it just seems like that's a really major concern of ours.
[Unidentified Member]: You mentioned anything about the under 20 megawatt thing? Smaller than 20 megawatts? Were we going to do that or no? Underland use. Underland use is a reference to it. Under We have
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: questions about the definition of data center being limited.
[Unidentified Member]: Oh, okay. Questions about? K. Sentence. We understand that there is language in this draft. Well, somebody just pulled it out. Never mind. Oh, wait a minute. Second sentence, but that that language.
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: So Maria? Wait. Are you
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: looking at a live version being edited?
[Unidentified Member]: I don't know.
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: No. No. I don't think so.
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: You should be looking at me. Where are you?
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: I see it, and I'm correcting it. Thank you. It's a double that in the under the second paragraph of land use.
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Because I talk I spoke mine into.
[Unidentified Member]: I don't see that then.
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Second paragraph of that section?
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: Yeah, it said, we understand that there is language in this draft that would require the PC to use certain criteria from active 50 for citing the CV for that language.
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Oh, but not that language. It is too that language. But that's that. Okay. Sometimes English language. Yeah. We've got that in. Good thing I went back to
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: it. Alright.
[Unidentified Member]: Is PUC citing two fifty or two forty eight? Two forty eight. Okay. Part of the and maybe I'm not quite fully understanding the second paragraph there on the land use. Part of what we are concerned about there is not just the duplicative, but to make sure that all the criteria are in either one or the other PUC or LERB. We want everything to be just cleanly identified and divided between which
[Unidentified Member]: process. Because only do we not
[Unidentified Member]: want duplicates, we also don't want anything missing. Right. I don't know if this paragraph I
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: should capitalize Act two fifty.
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: Got it. I'm making life no. I'm making enemies a duplicate.
[Unidentified Member]: And ensuring that all criteria are best. Sure.
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: We suggest removing the duplicative land use and environmental review under the PUC process and is that the other you're suggesting? Process.
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Suggest for emotional After process, I would do comma in ensuring that
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: all
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Great. Arteria. Arteria. Okay. You want review They're the not really correct.
[Ela Chapin (Member)]: Are addressed. In one
[Unidentified Member]: In one the other? Yeah. I mean, it could be, like, a separate added sentence rather than trying to squeeze it all out of that. Okay.
[Amy Sheldon (Chair)]: Folks supportive of the direction we're heading on 07/27? Great. I'm not seeing any opposed, so I think I'm going to say we have support for this from everyone and send that off before the floor to the House Energy Committee. And with that,