The town of Clymer approved four documents involved in the RIC Energy Solar Project in the town to allow them to take the next steps moving forward towards a building permit. P-J photo by Sara Holthouse

CLYMER — The town of Clymer’s first solar project, being done by RIC Energy and to be placed on Upper Road, is inching closer to the next step of getting a building permit.

During the February Clymer town board meeting, Town Supervisor Brian Willink said part of the process is the company asking the town to review the application again and make sure all of the underlying documents are what was agreed to in the special use permit. The special use permit for the project, which is set for 1548 Upper Road, was approved by the town board last May.

“So, in the process of going through our paperwork, there were a couple of modifications and an addition,” Willink said. “There’s a total of six documents that we need to approve another time. We’ve gotten four ready for tonight, and two more … the visual screening and maintenance agreement and the ONM Agreement and plan are the two we have not received yet.”

Willink said the two documents the town board have not received yet are still in engineering review, and will be voted on next month. The road use agreement, which covers any potential damage to town roads during construction, was among the documents to be approved by the town board in February, and was one that Willink said the numbers have changed on since the initial agreement.

“It looks to me like they were going to just use a little bit of Upper Road, and now they’re going to change the ways they’re going to bring supplies in and they’re going to be using a lot longer road,” Willink said.

Highway Superintendent Scott Trisket said the amount of road being used is changing from 1,000 feet to one and a half miles. Besides the road use agreement, the other documents approved by the town this month were the decommissioning agreement, the ESCROW agreement and the community benefit agreement.