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05/13/2024 12:22 PM
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House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: January 31, 2023 10:56 AM
From: Representative Robert E. Merski
To: All House members
Subject: Lake Erie Wind Energy Development Act
 
To continue with our commitment to environmental stewardship and promoting the development of renewable sources of energy, I am reintroducing legislation that would allow certain areas of the bed of Lake Erie to be leased by the Commonwealth for wind energy generation systems. 
 
The legislation would be known as the Lake Erie Wind Energy Development Act and would do the following:
 
  • Establish a competitive process and award a permit lease of an initial seven-year term with options to renew the lease for additional 35-year terms, and/or would provide for termination of the lease in the event the lessee does not develop the parcel within the initial seven-year term.
 

  • Establish a 2% royalty on the gross revenues of the system, to be divided as follows:
    20% to Erie County; 20% to the Fish & Boat Commission for activities directly related to Lake Erie; 40% to DEP for dam removal, restoration, and repair projects; and 20% to the County Conservation District Fund for distribution to county conservation districts.
     
Please join me in supporting this legislation.   
 


Introduced as HB254