Our Committee hopes to bring together attorneys, policymakers, advocates, and technical experts to explore a wide range of topics of interest related to siting, such as:

• providing adequate, affordable and reliable supplies of energy
• protecting environmental quality
• streamlining the siting process through consolidation of licensing and improving agency coordination
• resolving jurisdictional conflicts between state and federal government in planning and siting
• harmonizing different federal, regional, state, and local energy policies and planning
• ensuring meaningful public participation
• addressing environmental justice concerns, Native American cultural and economic issues
• incorporating comprehensive approaches to analyzing cumulative impacts and land-use planning
• considering energy conservation, efficiency and renewable energy sources
• "energy security" both national and international
• deregulation
• federal energy legislation
• transborder siting
• siting on tribal land
• mitigating CO₂

Other members may want to focus on issues relating to "process" and learn about different approaches taken by other states and help profile "best practices"

• Meaningful inter-agency coordination
• Establishment of real deadlines for reviews
• Clear and enforceable filing requirements and guidelines for substantive filings with complete information
• Consistent and clear standards of review from project to project
• Focus on environmental impacts, allowing the market to determine "need" to the greatest extent possible
• Providing a back-stop state override authority over local permitting decisions where necessary and appropriate
• Clear environmental data requirements, including with respect to cumulative impacts
• Clear expectations regarding mitigation of environmental impacts
• Provision of a procedural schedule and other forms of information and funding assistance to support meaningful public participation in a manner that will allow complete review within a given time period