WEBSTER – Building Inspector Theodore Tetreault III said Friday he is “very close” to issuing an occupancy permit to a medical marijuana company for its manufacturing and distribution operation.

The Planning Board in August unanimously approved a site plan and special permit for Mass Organic Therapy's medical marijuana business, in a warehouse at 30 Worcester Road. That was the final significant local action prior to building.

The company will only grow the product here and dispense it to patients elsewhere.

Company officials at that time said the business plan calls for bar-coded, seed-to-seal tracking and operation from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week.

The state allowed one cultivation site and up to three dispensaries for approved companies such as Mass Organic Therapy.

The company website, massorganictherapy.org, said it was awarded a provisional certificate of registration from the state in May, and its second certificate in July. Its dispensaries will be located in Hanover and Oxford.

The cultivation facility in Webster is located in a warehouse with five other tenants, and the company's building is 50,000 square feet. It initially built out 23,000 square feet.

Mr. Tetreault said the company built “exactly what they said.”

He added that the biggest holdup right now is with power. It is running on temporary power until National Grid can figure out a way to separate power from the former Cranston Print operation, which was originally two buildings, he said.

The medical marijuana company is putting 4,000 amps of power into the building, Mr. Tetreault said.

The inspector said the company is looking to the end of April through the second week in May to go online.

“But they want to start germinating seeds, and then after that it will be another three weeks, and then the full grow facility should be online, at least Phase 1 of it,” Mr. Tetreault said.

Joseph Lusardi, president of PalliaTech, an operations consultant for Mass Organic Therapy, has spoken in generalities about the company running a redundant security system that would be monitored by a third party, with every inch of the operation under surveillance, and each room to be accessed with identification control cards. He had declined to discuss security in greater details.

“Once this thing starts, nobody goes in,” Mr. Tetreault said. “Nobody. Security is pretty tight.”

Meanwhile, officials from the state Department of Public Health were intending to visit the building next week, to sign off on all of the company’s conditions, Mr. Tetreault said. That is needed before the inspector can approve occupancy, he said.

A DPH spokesman did not respond to an e-mail Friday.

Webster selectmen entered an agreement that mirrors the first-in-the-state cultivation agreement between Amesbury and Alternative Therapies Group Inc., which is growing medical marijuana for a dispensary in Salem for $50,000 per year, with ATG contributing no less than $5,000 to Amesbury public charities annually.

Patrick Johnson, Mass Organic's chief executive officer, has said the cultivation operation is expected to bring 20 to 30 full-time, high-paying jobs to Webster.