Boards and Commissions

Ohio Legislative Service Commission

Power Siting Board

Status	Type of Board	Full-time	Expiration Date
Current	Permanent	No	12/31/2028

Subject to Sunset Review	Partisan Affiliation Restriction	Senate Confirmation Required
Yes	No	Yes

Authority	Total Membership
R.C. 4906.02	11 or 13(4 nonvoting legislators and 4 alternates)

Dates of Appointment		Term Length
1 - 1/11/10 (public member) and each fourth year thereafter		4 years

Ending Date Of Term	Report Requirements
January 10	Not applicable

Appointment Authority	Membership Composition
Governor, House Minority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, Senate President, Speaker	House members, Other, Public members, Senate members, Statewide elected officials/department heads

Compensation		Staff Assistance
Expenses Only, Other, under schedule B of R.C. 124.15		Executive agency staff, Offices located within Public Utilities Commission. May request temporary assistance of certain agencies' staffs.

Chairperson	Additional Information
Chairman of PUCO

Qualifications
1 member to represent the public appointed by Governor with advice and consent of Senate, who must be an engineer chosen from a list of 3 nominees submitted by Office of Consumers' Counsel; 4 nonvoting legislative members: 1 appointed by the Speaker of the House, 1 appointed by the President of the Senate, 1 appointed by the Minority Leader of the House, and 1 appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, each of whom has an alternate designated by appointing authority; and ex officio: Chairman of Public Utilities Commission, and Directors of Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Health, Development, and Natural Resources. When an application to the Board is made for amending a utility facility, defined as an economically significant wind farm, a large wind farm, or a large solar facility, the Board must include 2 ad hoc members who must be the Chairperson of the Board of Township Trustees and the President of the Board of County Commissioners. If the facility will be located in multiple townships, the township trustees vote to select a representative.

Qualifications

1 member to represent the public appointed by Governor with advice and consent of Senate, who must be an engineer chosen from a list of 3 nominees submitted by Office of Consumers' Counsel; 4 nonvoting legislative members: 1 appointed by the Speaker of the House, 1 appointed by the President of the Senate, 1 appointed by the Minority Leader of the House, and 1 appointed by the Minority Leader of the Senate, each of whom has an alternate designated by appointing authority; and ex officio: Chairman of Public Utilities Commission, and Directors of Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Health, Development, and Natural Resources. When an application to the Board is made for amending a utility facility, defined as an economically significant wind farm, a large wind farm, or a large solar facility, the Board must include 2 ad hoc members who must be the Chairperson of the Board of Township Trustees and the President of the Board of County Commissioners. If the facility will be located in multiple townships, the township trustees vote to select a representative.