Agenda
- Overview of the current BLM FLPMA wind/solar permitting process
- Recent announcements regarding changes to the Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Study (PEIS)
- How long will it take before the solar PEIS and withdrawals are completed?
- What about BLM wind applications – will they receive similar treatment?
- Will these initiatives make a difference at the BLM Field Office for individual solar projects – pending and new?
- Will Congress change the currently used FLPMA right-of-way mechanism for wind and solar to a lease arrangement? What would the impacts be on developers?
- Potential impacts of the Inspector General’s investigation of recent sales of renewable energy companies (and FLPMA solar applications)on permit valuations
- Workarounds to BLM permit transfer restrictions