{
  "version": 1,
  "reviewed": "2026-10-03",
  "coverage_note": "An initial evidence set, not an exhaustive survey. A missing relationship means not documented here, never no policy. Source review verifies the cited instrument, not every later amendment or implementing action.",
  "states": [
    {
      "id": "AL",
      "name": "Alabama"
    },
    {
      "id": "AK",
      "name": "Alaska"
    },
    {
      "id": "AZ",
      "name": "Arizona"
    },
    {
      "id": "AR",
      "name": "Arkansas"
    },
    {
      "id": "CA",
      "name": "California"
    },
    {
      "id": "CO",
      "name": "Colorado"
    },
    {
      "id": "CT",
      "name": "Connecticut"
    },
    {
      "id": "DE",
      "name": "Delaware"
    },
    {
      "id": "FL",
      "name": "Florida"
    },
    {
      "id": "GA",
      "name": "Georgia"
    },
    {
      "id": "HI",
      "name": "Hawaii"
    },
    {
      "id": "ID",
      "name": "Idaho"
    },
    {
      "id": "IL",
      "name": "Illinois"
    },
    {
      "id": "IN",
      "name": "Indiana"
    },
    {
      "id": "IA",
      "name": "Iowa"
    },
    {
      "id": "KS",
      "name": "Kansas"
    },
    {
      "id": "KY",
      "name": "Kentucky"
    },
    {
      "id": "LA",
      "name": "Louisiana"
    },
    {
      "id": "ME",
      "name": "Maine"
    },
    {
      "id": "MD",
      "name": "Maryland"
    },
    {
      "id": "MA",
      "name": "Massachusetts"
    },
    {
      "id": "MI",
      "name": "Michigan"
    },
    {
      "id": "MN",
      "name": "Minnesota"
    },
    {
      "id": "MS",
      "name": "Mississippi"
    },
    {
      "id": "MO",
      "name": "Missouri"
    },
    {
      "id": "MT",
      "name": "Montana"
    },
    {
      "id": "NE",
      "name": "Nebraska"
    },
    {
      "id": "NV",
      "name": "Nevada"
    },
    {
      "id": "NH",
      "name": "New Hampshire"
    },
    {
      "id": "NJ",
      "name": "New Jersey"
    },
    {
      "id": "NM",
      "name": "New Mexico"
    },
    {
      "id": "NY",
      "name": "New York"
    },
    {
      "id": "NC",
      "name": "North Carolina"
    },
    {
      "id": "ND",
      "name": "North Dakota"
    },
    {
      "id": "OH",
      "name": "Ohio"
    },
    {
      "id": "OK",
      "name": "Oklahoma"
    },
    {
      "id": "OR",
      "name": "Oregon"
    },
    {
      "id": "PA",
      "name": "Pennsylvania"
    },
    {
      "id": "RI",
      "name": "Rhode Island"
    },
    {
      "id": "SC",
      "name": "South Carolina"
    },
    {
      "id": "SD",
      "name": "South Dakota"
    },
    {
      "id": "TN",
      "name": "Tennessee"
    },
    {
      "id": "TX",
      "name": "Texas"
    },
    {
      "id": "UT",
      "name": "Utah"
    },
    {
      "id": "VT",
      "name": "Vermont"
    },
    {
      "id": "VA",
      "name": "Virginia"
    },
    {
      "id": "WA",
      "name": "Washington"
    },
    {
      "id": "WV",
      "name": "West Virginia"
    },
    {
      "id": "WI",
      "name": "Wisconsin"
    },
    {
      "id": "WY",
      "name": "Wyoming"
    }
  ],
  "families": [
    {
      "id": "readiness",
      "label": "Project readiness"
    },
    {
      "id": "costs",
      "label": "Cost responsibility"
    },
    {
      "id": "flexibility",
      "label": "Grid flexibility"
    },
    {
      "id": "water",
      "label": "Water safeguards"
    },
    {
      "id": "reporting",
      "label": "Reporting & oversight"
    },
    {
      "id": "energy",
      "label": "Energy & emissions"
    },
    {
      "id": "local",
      "label": "Local authority"
    },
    {
      "id": "review",
      "label": "Environmental review"
    }
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    {
      "id": "site-control",
      "family": "readiness",
      "label": "Evidence of site control",
      "purpose": "Confirm project maturity before reserving infrastructure.",
      "decision": "Choose acceptable legal interests and a process to update changes.",
      "dependencies": [
        "security"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "security",
      "family": "costs",
      "label": "Financial security",
      "purpose": "Secure committed infrastructure spending against speculative requests.",
      "decision": "Specify release, reuse and refund rules; avoid double recovery.",
      "dependencies": [
        "cost-allocation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cost-allocation",
      "family": "costs",
      "label": "Attributable-cost allocation",
      "purpose": "Assign incremental costs and risks to the demand that causes them.",
      "decision": "Define the cost baseline, audit rights and treatment of shared benefits.",
      "dependencies": [
        "regulator-reporting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "minimum-payment",
      "family": "costs",
      "label": "Minimum payment commitments",
      "purpose": "Give infrastructure funding a predictable revenue commitment.",
      "decision": "Reconcile minimum bills with rewarded curtailment and realistic load ramp-up.",
      "dependencies": [
        "cost-allocation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "departure",
      "family": "costs",
      "label": "Departure / reduced-load protection",
      "purpose": "Address stranded investments when a customer leaves or shrinks.",
      "decision": "Credit reusable infrastructure and security already collected.",
      "dependencies": [
        "cost-allocation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "curtailment",
      "family": "flexibility",
      "label": "Emergency response",
      "purpose": "Turn load flexibility into a defined operating service.",
      "decision": "Specify notice, duration, measurement and compensation.",
      "dependencies": [
        "emissions"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "supply-review",
      "family": "water",
      "label": "Water-supply review",
      "purpose": "Assess local supply before long-lived cooling commitments.",
      "decision": "Choose the trigger, priority uses and review process.",
      "dependencies": [
        "water-reporting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "water-reporting",
      "family": "reporting",
      "label": "Water-use reporting",
      "purpose": "Measure water demand consistently over time.",
      "decision": "Separate potable, reclaimed, withdrawal and consumption measures; specify public granularity.",
      "dependencies": []
    },
    {
      "id": "regulator-reporting",
      "family": "reporting",
      "label": "Regulatory reporting",
      "purpose": "Make commitments and delivery visible to an accountable body.",
      "decision": "Specify reporting cadence, confidentiality, enforcement and public summaries.",
      "dependencies": []
    },
    {
      "id": "clean-energy",
      "family": "energy",
      "label": "Clean-energy service terms",
      "purpose": "Align new demand with resource planning.",
      "decision": "Distinguish an optional product from a binding obligation and define eligible resources.",
      "dependencies": [
        "cost-allocation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "emissions",
      "family": "energy",
      "label": "Emissions safeguards",
      "purpose": "Keep reliability measures within environmental limits.",
      "decision": "Reconcile emergency operating authority with generator permits.",
      "dependencies": []
    },
    {
      "id": "local-authority",
      "family": "local",
      "label": "Preserved local authority",
      "purpose": "Give host communities an explicit role.",
      "decision": "Specify state-local responsibility and a consistent process.",
      "dependencies": []
    },
    {
      "id": "environmental-review",
      "family": "review",
      "label": "Environmental assessment",
      "purpose": "Review cumulative effects across projects and resources.",
      "decision": "Define scope, milestones, decision authority and public participation.",
      "dependencies": [
        "supply-review",
        "emissions"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "permit-hold",
      "family": "review",
      "label": "Interim permit restraint",
      "purpose": "Create a defined review interval before covered approvals proceed.",
      "decision": "Specify exemptions, review milestones and a clear release condition.",
      "dependencies": [
        "environmental-review"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sources": {
    "tx": {
      "label": "Texas SB 6, enrolled text",
      "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00006F.htm",
      "type": "Statutory text",
      "scope": "ERCOT large-load interconnection; applicability and exceptions in the statute.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "mn": {
      "label": "Minnesota 2025 special-session Chapter 12",
      "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2025/1/12/laws.0.8.0",
      "type": "Session law",
      "scope": "Scope varies by section: data-center water provisions, public-utility service, and optional clean-energy contracts.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "sd": {
      "label": "South Dakota SB 135, Chapter 190",
      "url": "https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/SessionLaw/306613.pdf?Year=2026",
      "type": "Session law",
      "scope": "Statutorily defined data centers; electricity providers, water providers, and local governments.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "oh": {
      "label": "PUCO decision announcement, case 24-508-EL-ATA",
      "url": "https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/OHPUC/bulletins/3e8bb79",
      "type": "Commission decision announcement",
      "scope": "AEP Ohio data-center tariff proceeding; not a tariff for every Ohio utility.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "in": {
      "label": "IURC order, Cause 46097",
      "url": "https://secure.in.gov/iurc/files/ord_46097_021925.pdf",
      "type": "Commission order",
      "scope": "Indiana Michigan Power Tariff I.P., Indiana jurisdiction; covered large-load customers.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "ga": {
      "label": "Georgia PSC rule approval announcement",
      "url": "https://psc.ga.gov/site/assets/files/8617/media_advisory_data_centers_rule_1-23-2025.pdf",
      "type": "Commission decision announcement",
      "scope": "Georgia Power covered new large-load customers; not every Georgia utility.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "or": {
      "label": "Oregon HB 3546, enrolled text",
      "url": "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3546",
      "type": "Enrolled text; Chapter 323 confirmed",
      "scope": "Covered large energy use facilities served by electric companies; tariff and contract provisions have distinct applicability.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "or-status": {
      "label": "Oregon HB 3546 legislative status",
      "url": "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB3546",
      "type": "Legislative status",
      "scope": "Chapter 323 assigned.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "va": {
      "label": "Virginia Code 62.1-44.38, future-effective subsection C",
      "url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/62.1-44.38/",
      "type": "Enacted, future effective",
      "scope": "Registered water users supplying water offsite; categorized reporting, not universal facility-level public disclosure.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "va-report": {
      "label": "Virginia SCC RD637 report listing",
      "url": "https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2026/RD637",
      "type": "Official report listing",
      "scope": "Report description covers utility agreements, water use and generator permitting; underlying report data not ingested.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    "ny": {
      "label": "New York Executive Order 62",
      "url": "https://www.governor.ny.gov/executive-order/no-62-establishing-temporary-moratorium-data-centers-new-york-while-state-develops",
      "type": "Executive order",
      "scope": "Covered data centers and discretionary DEC permits; definition and exemptions must be checked.",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    }
  },
  "provisions": [
    {
      "id": "tx-site-control",
      "state": "TX",
      "mechanism": "site-control",
      "title": "Verify the proposed site",
      "summary": "Interconnection standards must include a way to demonstrate a legal interest in the proposed location.",
      "source": "tx",
      "locator": "Section 37.0561(g)",
      "distinction": "Evidence of site control does not establish that all permits or financing are secured.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "tx-security",
      "state": "TX",
      "mechanism": "security",
      "title": "Back transmission commitments",
      "summary": "Standards must set financial commitments supporting transmission infrastructure for covered loads.",
      "source": "tx",
      "locator": "Section 37.0561(h)-(j)",
      "distinction": "Permitted security forms and release rules depend on implementation; not a minimum energy bill.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "tx-curtailment",
      "state": "TX",
      "mechanism": "curtailment",
      "title": "Define emergency response",
      "summary": "Covered backup-equipped loads may be directed to deploy backup generation or curtail after the specified market-service sequence.",
      "source": "tx",
      "locator": "Section 37.0561(e)",
      "distinction": "An emergency mechanism, not a general voluntary demand-response tariff.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "tx-emissions",
      "state": "TX",
      "mechanism": "emissions",
      "title": "Retain emissions limits",
      "summary": "Emergency direction does not authorize violation of emissions or environmental requirements.",
      "source": "tx",
      "locator": "Section 37.0561(e)(1)",
      "distinction": "Backup generation remains constrained by applicable environmental rules.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn-cost-allocation",
      "state": "MN",
      "mechanism": "cost-allocation",
      "title": "Assign attributable utility costs",
      "summary": "Commission review of very-large-customer service terms must address attributable costs and protection of other customers.",
      "source": "mn",
      "locator": "Section 9, subdivision 2",
      "distinction": "A regulatory framework with customer-class and agreement decisions, not a uniform minimum billing percentage.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn-departure",
      "state": "MN",
      "mechanism": "departure",
      "title": "Protect against stranded costs",
      "summary": "Tariff or agreement review must include protections against other customers paying stranded service costs.",
      "source": "mn",
      "locator": "Section 9, subdivision 2(3)",
      "distinction": "Existing-service exceptions appear in subdivision 3.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn-supply-review",
      "state": "MN",
      "mechanism": "supply-review",
      "title": "Evaluate consumptive water demand",
      "summary": "Preapplication review links covered consumptive demand and permit needs to site-specific water availability.",
      "source": "mn",
      "locator": "Sections 3-4",
      "distinction": "Facility definition and water-use/permit conditions apply together; not all withdrawals trigger this review.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "mn-clean-energy",
      "state": "MN",
      "mechanism": "clean-energy",
      "title": "Offer optional clean-energy service",
      "summary": "Utilities must offer a clean-energy and capacity tariff with participating customers paying proportional resource costs.",
      "source": "mn",
      "locator": "Section 10",
      "distinction": "Customer participation is optional; do not classify it as a universal clean-energy purchase mandate.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "sd-cost-allocation",
      "state": "SD",
      "mechanism": "cost-allocation",
      "title": "Recover attributable electricity costs",
      "summary": "Separate service terms must recover costs fairly attributable to the data center.",
      "source": "sd",
      "locator": "Section 3",
      "distinction": "Applies through provider terms rather than a published statewide minimum billing percentage.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "sd-departure",
      "state": "SD",
      "mechanism": "departure",
      "title": "Address departure and reduced load",
      "summary": "Cost responsibility includes costs incurred if the customer departs or materially reduces load.",
      "source": "sd",
      "locator": "Section 3",
      "distinction": "The law states cost responsibility; it does not supply a universal exit-fee formula.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "sd-supply-review",
      "state": "SD",
      "mechanism": "supply-review",
      "title": "Obtain local supply determinations",
      "summary": "Water providers assess compatibility, with board review and allocation limits protecting priority uses.",
      "source": "sd",
      "locator": "Section 5",
      "distinction": "Local supply determinations are distinct from the Minnesota consumptive-use permit review.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "sd-water-reporting",
      "state": "SD",
      "mechanism": "water-reporting",
      "title": "Publish water-use data",
      "summary": "Operators report usage to the board, which makes usage data available to the public.",
      "source": "sd",
      "locator": "Section 6",
      "distinction": "Operator reporting differs from Virginia supplier category reporting.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "sd-local-authority",
      "state": "SD",
      "mechanism": "local-authority",
      "title": "Preserve local regulation",
      "summary": "The state may not limit local authority to regulate data-center development or operation.",
      "source": "sd",
      "locator": "Section 4",
      "distinction": "Preservation of local authority is not evidence that a local ban exists.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "oh-cost-allocation",
      "state": "OH",
      "mechanism": "cost-allocation",
      "title": "Address underused infrastructure risk",
      "summary": "PUCO adopted a settlement aimed at protecting other customers from cost shifting due to underused data-center investments.",
      "source": "oh",
      "locator": "Decision announcement, case background",
      "distinction": "The cited announcement directs tariff filing; consult the filed tariff for binding customer terms.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "in-minimum-payment",
      "state": "IN",
      "mechanism": "minimum-payment",
      "title": "Set minimum billing obligations",
      "summary": "The approved settlement establishes minimum billing-demand and charge provisions for covered large loads.",
      "source": "in",
      "locator": "Order pp. 32-35 and ordering paragraphs p. 49",
      "distinction": "The approved settlement differs from the original utility proposal; I&M territory only.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "in-departure",
      "state": "IN",
      "mechanism": "departure",
      "title": "Address early termination",
      "summary": "The approved settlement contains contract termination protections for covered large-load service.",
      "source": "in",
      "locator": "Settlement agreement; order approval pp. 49-50",
      "distinction": "Customer-specific conditions and the settlement govern; not statewide terms for every provider.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "in-security",
      "state": "IN",
      "mechanism": "security",
      "title": "Require collateral arrangements",
      "summary": "The approved settlement includes financial-security terms for covered large-load customers.",
      "source": "in",
      "locator": "Settlement agreement; order approval pp. 49-50",
      "distinction": "Collateral and exceptions depend on tariff eligibility and customer circumstances.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "in-regulator-reporting",
      "state": "IN",
      "mechanism": "regulator-reporting",
      "title": "Report large-load developments",
      "summary": "The order addresses recurring reports and protection of confidential information.",
      "source": "in",
      "locator": "Order p. 49",
      "distinction": "Regulator access is not equivalent to public disclosure of all reported data.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "ga-cost-allocation",
      "state": "GA",
      "mechanism": "cost-allocation",
      "title": "Allocate infrastructure costs",
      "summary": "The PSC approved additional service terms addressing site and upstream power-system costs.",
      "source": "ga",
      "locator": "Commission announcement p. 1",
      "distinction": "Applies to the specified Georgia Power customer category; implementation is contract-specific.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "ga-minimum-payment",
      "state": "GA",
      "mechanism": "minimum-payment",
      "title": "Allow longer contracts and minimum bills",
      "summary": "The approved rule allows longer contracts and minimum billing for covered high-load customers.",
      "source": "ga",
      "locator": "Commission announcement p. 1",
      "distinction": "Authority to impose terms is not a universal mandatory billing percentage.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "or-cost-allocation",
      "state": "OR",
      "mechanism": "cost-allocation",
      "title": "Create a separate service class",
      "summary": "The act calls for tariffs assigning covered service costs to large energy use facilities and mitigating cost shifts.",
      "source": "or",
      "locator": "Section 2",
      "distinction": "Separate tariff approval and transition provisions matter; a statute is not itself a completed tariff.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "or-minimum-payment",
      "state": "OR",
      "mechanism": "minimum-payment",
      "title": "Require contractual minimum payments",
      "summary": "Covered service contracts must include a minimum payment amount or percentage determined by the commission.",
      "source": "or",
      "locator": "Sections 5-6",
      "distinction": "The law leaves the amount or percentage to the commission.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "or-clean-energy",
      "state": "OR",
      "mechanism": "clean-energy",
      "title": "Consider clean-energy compatibility",
      "summary": "Commission tariff review must consider effects on clean-energy targets and compatible resource procurement.",
      "source": "or",
      "locator": "Section 2(3)",
      "distinction": "A tariff-review criterion differs from Minnesota optional clean-energy procurement.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "or-regulator-reporting",
      "state": "OR",
      "mechanism": "regulator-reporting",
      "title": "Report load trends to lawmakers",
      "summary": "The commission must report on large-load trends and implications while protecting proprietary information.",
      "source": "or",
      "locator": "Section 7",
      "distinction": "A legislative reporting mechanism, not disclosure of every customer contract.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "va-water-reporting",
      "state": "VA",
      "mechanism": "water-reporting",
      "title": "Separate potable and reclaimed volumes",
      "summary": "The future-effective code adds supplier reporting by customer category, separating potable and reclaimed water.",
      "source": "va",
      "locator": "Subsection C, version effective January 1, 2027",
      "distinction": "Monthly data can be replaced by quarterly totals where unavailable; facility-specific disclosure is not established here.",
      "status": "Enacted, future effective",
      "effective_date": "2027-01-01",
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "va-regulator-reporting",
      "state": "VA",
      "mechanism": "regulator-reporting",
      "title": "Connect electricity, water and generators",
      "summary": "The official report listing describes a cross-resource account of service agreements, water usage and generator permits.",
      "source": "va-report",
      "locator": "RD637 executive summary",
      "distinction": "This confirms the report description, not completeness or accuracy of individual facility records.",
      "status": "Official report listed",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "ny-environmental-review",
      "state": "NY",
      "mechanism": "environmental-review",
      "title": "Assess cumulative development impacts",
      "summary": "The order directs a generic environmental impact statement for covered data-center development.",
      "source": "ny",
      "locator": "Order section 1",
      "distinction": "A statewide review process differs from a project-specific approval.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "ny-permit-hold",
      "state": "NY",
      "mechanism": "permit-hold",
      "title": "Link permit restraint to review",
      "summary": "The order holds covered discretionary DEC permits in abeyance subject to its scope and exclusions.",
      "source": "ny",
      "locator": "Order section 1 and definition in section 6",
      "distinction": "Applies to covered DEC applications not determined complete before the order; local-government permits are excluded. Not proof that a named project stopped.",
      "status": "Documented in cited instrument",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "ny-supply-review",
      "state": "NY",
      "mechanism": "supply-review",
      "title": "Review water-withdrawal rules",
      "summary": "DEC must assess whether water-withdrawal rules, reporting or guidance should change for large users.",
      "source": "ny",
      "locator": "Order section 5",
      "distinction": "Agency review direction, not an enacted new facility-level water cap.",
      "status": "Agency review directed",
      "effective_date": null,
      "reviewed": "2026-10-03"
    }
  ],
  "tradeoffs": [
    {
      "when": [
        "minimum-payment",
        "curtailment"
      ],
      "text": "Minimum-payment protection and curtailment incentives must be reconciled so an operator is not penalized for a requested reduction."
    },
    {
      "when": [
        "security",
        "departure"
      ],
      "text": "Coordinate collateral and exit liability to prevent recovering the same stranded cost twice."
    },
    {
      "when": [
        "supply-review",
        "clean-energy"
      ],
      "text": "Assess cooling, water and electricity choices together; meeting one resource objective does not establish the others."
    },
    {
      "when": [
        "regulator-reporting",
        "water-reporting"
      ],
      "text": "Choose public disclosure separately from regulator reporting; confidential filings cannot be presented as public facility data."
    }
  ]
}