Data centers and other developments meeting any high-intensity threshold must submit enhanced application materials, including applicable utility, water, stormwater, sound, visual-buffering, fire-safety, and heat-related documents. The County may deem an application incomplete if those materials are missing.

A development with at least 10,000 square feet of combined buildings and ground-mounted facilities, heat-generating features, noise-generating equipment, a substantial exterior mechanical or utility equipment area, or water demand of at least 20,000 gallons per day is classified as a High-Intensity Nonresidential Land Development and is subject to the enhanced requirements.

If the applicant reports that the development will not be electrically self-sufficient, approval requires an executed electric-service or transmission-service agreement with the applicable electric cooperative or public utility. Required interconnection infrastructure and easements must be shown on the plan.

If the applicant reports that the development will be self-sufficient but wants grid interconnection for sales of excess power or backup protection, approval requires an executed electric-connection or transmission-service agreement, with related infrastructure and easements shown on the plan.

When connecting to a central water system, the applicant must provide a water-company or authority will-serve letter verifying service adequacy for the development's maximum anticipated water demand measured over a 30-day average.

Commercial and industrial developments must report maximum anticipated consumptive water use over a 30-day average. At 20,000 gallons per day or more, the applicant must obtain a Susquehanna River Basin Commission Consumptive Water Use Permit as a condition of plan approval.

A project disturbing more than one acre must secure the applicable Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Chapter 102 NPDES permit, and may also need a PA-03 Stormwater NPDES Permit or an individual industrial-wastewater discharge permit.

High-intensity developments with exterior mechanical or utility equipment or specified fans, blowers, chillers, pumps, transformers, substations, turbines, generators, or similar equipment must submit a Sound Impact Study prepared and signed by a credentialed acoustics professional.

The sound study must analyze existing ambient conditions, maximum full-capacity post-construction sound at all property lines, major sources, equipment locations and orientation, and applicable low-frequency, tonal, impulsive-sound, or ground-borne-vibration impacts.

Normal operations must be designed to keep sound at every property line at or below Leq 55 dBA during both day and night. Mitigation and noise-screening measures must be shown on the approved plan and installed or financially secured; emergency backup generator or turbine use is excepted.

The County may retain an independent acoustical consultant to review the sound study, and may charge the applicant for the consultant's costs as a condition of plan approval.

High-intensity developments may be required to provide sight-line subplans and artistic renderings demonstrating compliance with visual-buffering and screening requirements. Existing vegetation credited toward buffering must remain in place or be replaced with comparable plantings.

For high-intensity developments, the County may require wet or dry hydrants, pumps, tanks, ponds, or reservoirs for tanker-truck firefighting, based on coordination with local fire chiefs. The applicant may also be charged for a professional-engineer review of those systems.

Regardless of whether fire lanes are required, the applicant may be required to place a covenant on the plan requiring annual consultation with Wyoming County emergency management and local fire companies, including potential onsite emergency training.

High-intensity developments must submit a heat-related site-design narrative addressing heat-generating equipment, equipment layout, building placement, impervious coverage, vegetation, shading, materials, airflow, and other measures intended to reduce off-site impacts.

Enhanced studies, narratives, or plan elements are required only to the extent reasonably applicable to the proposed development's physical characteristics, infrastructure, or site design, allowing applicants to avoid irrelevant submissions.

The amendment states that it does not determine whether a particular use is permitted or create a conditional-use, special-exception, or zoning-approval process where no zoning ordinance applies.

The existing SALDO protects a properly filed, pending application from later County ordinance changes that would adversely affect it; approved plans also receive protection against adverse ordinance changes for five years, subject to the ordinance's conditions and extensions.

The SALDO allows waivers or modifications of mandatory standards where compliance would cause an unnecessary, property-specific hardship, and allows alternative methods when the applicant demonstrates equal or better results; the request must be submitted in writing and may be conditioned by the Planning Commission.

Commercial and industrial developments may operate with sound levels up to Leq 70 dBA at property lines during emergency backup-generator use, and during routine generator testing between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.; backup generators may not be the primary power source during non-emergency operation.

For data centers and data-center campuses, complexes, or parks, decommissioning is limited to the interior contents of structures and buildings, including circuitry, servers, computer units, batteries, and hazardous or toxic components, rather than requiring decommissioning of the structures or buildings themselves.