Maine offshore wind test center: FOAA docs shows state trying to make it a permanent windpower site.
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Comment by Ron Huber on December 9, 2016 at 11:21am
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Friends
So would the change the wind related officials below want to happen have to take place legislatively? or as an administrative action?
Read below a discussion by officials of whether the "test " designation of the offshore wind test center can be eliminated to make the site permanent ( these may be slightly our of order))
Beth Nagusky writes
>Todd -- ...Here are my specific questions as I went back to look at the statute you wrote and we passed ages ago. Maybe Matt (where are you housed Matt?) can answer: Do they still only need the general permit? Was there an amendment that extended the GP term from a few years to indefinitely for Monhegan? Is Kathleen still there? If so say hi!!
Peggy Bensinger asked Todd Burrowes:
>Hi, Todd. Are you aware of any special provisions in law for the Monhegan area in regard to the >length of terms of the General Permit that can be issued?
and Todd writes:
>Hi, Peggy. I am aware of no such provisions other than the one regarding extension of the permit >term, 38 M.R.S. §480-HH(9)(B) (http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/38/title38sec480->... ).
and Bensinger replies
>Okay, thanks. Me neither. I received a question from Beth Nagusky, who now works in Ohio, and >she said she thought she had seen that there was some special exemption for Monhegan that >allowed a general permit there to last forever.
Beth Nagusky wrote:
>... Somewhere I thought I’d seen that Monhegan had been exempted from the time limited nature >of the permit but that appears not to be the case. Maybe I dreamed it!!
Then Todd Burrowes writes:
>Hi, Beth. I think it’s best that you address your questions re: the general permit’s applicability to >DEP and the AG’s office. A good contact at DEP would be Mark Bergeron (207.215.4397;
> Mark.Bergeron@maine.gov ), who’s the director of DEP’s Bureau of Land Resources, which >administers that law, and Peggy Bensinger (207.626.8578; Peggy.Bensinger@maine.gov ) who >continues to represent DEP and BEP on licensing and permitting matters.
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Thanks Eric! I'll edit that into the update
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