Dates to watch

MONTEREY — There are several deadlines and dates affecting the proposed industrial wind energy utility; as updated this week, they include:

• June 11 — The date Highland New Wind Development submitted its site maps and erosion and sediment control plans. This date determines the deadline building official Jim Whitelaw must meet in reviewing the E&S plan.

• July 15 — The date HNWD wanted a building permit. Supervisors said it would be impossible to issue a construction permit that soon. HNWD has not made a formal application for a building permit.

• July 21 — The next meeting of the Technical Review Committee, at 4 p.m., location to be announced, for further review of HNWD's progress in meeting its conditions.

• July 27 — The date by which Whitelaw must approve or deny HNWD's erosion and sediment control plans. The county hired engineers at Mattern & Craig to review the plan; the firm said last week there was not enough information to conduct a final review and asked for clarifications. Those were provided by HNWD's engineers Monday, and they will meet with Mattern & Craig this week.

• Aug. 4 — The next meeting of the board of supervisors. The board had decided to vote this day on whether to extend the conditional use permit, but supervisor David Blanchard is unable to attend, and has asked for a special meeting the week following in order to participate in a discussion and/or decision about an extension. No date has been set yet for that meeting.

• Aug. 17 — Potentially, this is the date HNWD's conditional use permit expires. The developer's attorney calculated this expiration date by adding and subtracting days when the permit was active. Though it was issued in July 2005, the county stipulated the permit's two-year timeframe would not include any days in which legal actions were under way, and several lawsuits were filed that did not officially end until September 2007. Dowd will check the conclusions, but said this was probably the right date for expiration. Supervisors have the authority to extend the permit for any length of time, and any number of times, if they choose.

• Dec. 20 — The date the state permit expires. On Dec. 20, 2007, the State Corporation Commission issued HNWD a two-year limit for meeting all conditions attached to the state permit and getting construction started. The SCC has the authority to extend this permit if requested.