By JIM BUTLER 

Project Lightning is not on the agenda posted Wednesday afternoon for today’s England Authority meeting.  

Though likely just a formality, Authority commissioners have not yet signed off on the incentive package designed to land a $3.6 billion data center in a newly created Authority sub-district, making Lightning a reality. 

The agenda does include economic development discussion as a general topic. 

With Governor Jeff Landry leading the choir, a number of personages hailed the center at a press conference Tuesday as a done deal. 

Given all that was said, it seems a cinch Deep Forge 1, as it is coded by the parties involved, will locate near Boyce. 

The last time it went before the Authority, commissioners noted a detailed incentive package would eventually be presented to it for consideration and approval. 

Such a package would include details regarding payments In Lieu of Taxes, additional payments covering various facets, employment guarantees and the like.