Robinson, Braxton Newkirk, and Commission Executive Assistant Melissa Hughes is taking the meeting minutes.

Commissioner Greg Miles read the Appeals of Planning Commission Decisions guidelines: Any person deemed to have standing by virtue of being the applicant, a board or officer of the county, or an adversely affected party, may file an appeal with the county commission within ten (10) days of the date of the decision specifying the nature of the appeal. Following receipt by the county commission of an appeal of a decision of the planning commission, the county commission shall give notice and schedule a de novo public hearing. The appellant shall present all theories of relief to the county commission, as failure to raise such theories at this stage of appeal precludes presentation of such theories to the district court. Following the hearing and the review of all relevant information, the county commission shall render a decision on the appeal. So, we need to determine whether the appellant has standing.

Moreen Henderson stated her address on Wells Draw Road, six (6) miles from the proposed site of the data center. She said: I can't support the center because we don't have any information about what the center is. I think that the Duchesne County Commissioners, the Planning Commission, and the people of Duchesne County have a right to know just exactly what we are getting. For one thing, we don't know the size of the center. Everything depends on the size of that center. We don't know how big the solar farm will be because we don't know how large the center will be. Will the solar farm generate heat? Will it cause an area to heat more? How big an area will it heat? We need to know these answers.

I'm sure there's plenty of natural gas for the generators, but we need to know how many there will be, how big they are, when they plan to use them, and whether they are backup or supplemental power. We also need to know when they'll use these generators. Are they going to use them in January, during the wintertime, when we have an inversion? What is that going to do to our air quality?

The next thing we need to know is how much culinary water do they get? I believe that they will be in the Johnson Water District. Does Johnson Water have the water that they can supply for their culinary needs? What do they want to use Johnson water for? Do they want to use it to cool or just for culinary use? We need to know that. How much water will they need for cooling, and where will it come from? I understand that it may come from the disposal ponds. Is this water a good source? Is it the kind and quality that they need? Can they provide that much water? If they can't provide that water, where is that water going to come from? The population in Duchesne County in 1970 was 7,249. In 2020, we were 19,617. So we've more than doubled our population. We didn't grow quite as fast as the rest of the state. But over the last 50 years, our water supply has decreased.

When I was a kid, there were glaciers in those mountains. Those glaciers are gone. The water is not what it used to be. We don't have the water supply we had before. But our demand is bigger because we have more people, which is a good thing. We want to keep our kids here. All of our water comes from one source: the Uinta Mountains. With the drought issues we have right now and the issues on the Colorado River, for which we do not know what Congress is going to do with us there, it may not be the time to put more pressure on the water we have here. The last figures I've seen from the snowtail site show we were at 48% of normal. Commissioner, think about what that's going to do to you. I'm in Pleasant Valley. We're probably going to be okay this year. Next year, we might not be. Who knows what our weather's going to be? We need to plan ahead to avoid overusing our water.

All culinary, industrial, and irrigation water is issued a water right by the state of Utah. Have they gone to the state and gotten any change of use of water? Culinary water has 100% depletion. Industrial water has 100% depletion. Irrigation water has a 50% depletion. The Division of Water Rights sets your depletion rate. 100% means they don't think any of that water will make it back into the rivers or into any underground aquifers where irrigation water will. They figure 50% of what is used will be returned.

We need to know who will own this center and what they plan to do with it. The center