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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a name="_Hlk1717203">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203">The Division of Statewide Planning is pleased to announce that the final solar siting guidance documents have been posted to the Division of Statewide Planning’s webpage.
There is a link to <span style="color:#333333">the documents under the recent publication’s column on our homepage at:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"></span><a href="http://www.planning.ri.gov/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.planning.ri.gov/</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"><span style="color:#333333">The three documents were developed in collaboration
<a name="_Hlk1717384">with the Office of Energy Resources</a>, a broad set of stakeholders, and a dozen public outreach meetings that occurred across the State between June and October 2018.
<a name="_Hlk1717756">We would like to express our gratitude to all the stakeholders who helped with this project.
</a>If you have any questions, please reach out to Paul, Nancy and or Chris at the following emails:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Paul Gonsalves, Division of Statewide Planning – </span>
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"></span><a href="mailto:Paul.Gonsalves@doa.ri.gov"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"><span style="color:#0563C1">Paul.Gonsalves@doa.ri.gov</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk1717203"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Nancy Hess, Division of Statewide Planning - </span>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Christopher Kearns, Office of Energy Resources - </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#0070C0">Nancy Hess<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Supervising Land Use Planner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.planning.ri.gov/planning-areas/land-use/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Land Use and Natural Resources</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.planning.ri.gov/planning-areas/land-use/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Division of Statewide Planning</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Administration<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI 02908<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0070C0">Phone:</span></b> 401-222-6480<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0070C0">Email:</span></b> <span style="color:#0099FF">
<a href="mailto:nancy.hess@doa.ri.gov"><span style="color:#0099FF">nancy.hess@doa.ri.gov</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#0070C0">Website: </span></b><span style="color:#0099FF"><a href="http://www.planning.ri.gov/"><span style="color:#0099FF">www.planning.ri.gov</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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