CHERRY VALLEY - The planning board is still waiting for Global Winds Harvest to provide additional information before continuing their review of the developers proposed wind park.

The plan has been scaled back from the original which had called for more than 40 wind turbines on two sites in the town. Currently the site plan application before the planning board shows 27 wind turbines located along a ridge across from the Cherry Valley-Springfield school, known as Cape Wykoff.

Global Winds Harvest submitted the site plan review application in July, but has not returned to the planning board since then.

Project manager Erich Bachmeyer said Tuesday afternoon that they are still working on additional detail requested by the planning board and would not attend that evening's meeting. One of the major things left to accomplish is related to the planning board's request for maps based on five-foot contours.

The planning board also wants to see a grading plan for road construction.

Providing both of those to the board will take some time, he said.

Global Winds Harvest is also working on the development of two other wind project simultaneously. One of them is located in Pennsylvania where they are negotiating to increase the size of the project.

The second is a 75 megawatt wind farm located in Prattsburgh, south of Rochester, at the bottom of Canandaigua Lake.

The company is in line to receive $7 million in state grant funds from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for the two projects. Global Winds would get $2.5 million for the Cherry Valley project and $4.5 million for the one proposed in Prattsburgh.

The grant money would be paid only after the turbines are installed and online.

"We've got to get turbines in the air or we don't get it," Bachmeyer said.

He said they plan to return to the Cherry Valley planning board as soon as the possible, but was not certain if they would be ready for the October meeting.

Meanwhile, the planning baoard has notified all interested agencies as required, but has not yet declared lead agency status, according to interim chairman Chris Ottman. "We don't have enough information to declare lead agency status," Ottman said Tuesday, adding that the lead agency will be determined after the remaining information is submitted by Global Winds Harvest.

The planning board meets the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.