Notice of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Public Hearings for the Proposed York County Energy Partners Cogeneration Project at North Codorus Township, PA

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The Department of Energy (Department) announces the availability of the York County Energy Partners Cogeneration Project's Draft Statement (EIS-0221) prepared to assess the environmental and human health effects of the design, construction, and operation of a proposed 250 (gross) megawatt electric (MWe) atmospheric circulating fluidized bed cogeneration facility, to be located in North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania. As one of the proposals selected under Round I of the Clean Coal Technology Program, the Cogeneration Project would demonstrate the applicability of atmospheric circulating fluidized bed combustion and cogeneration technology at a utility scale. This technology, when compared to conventional coal burning technologies, would result in a cost effective reduction in emissions of sulfur, oxides of nitrogen, and particles from a nominal 250-MWe (227 MWe net) coal-fired power plant. The proposed action is the cost- shared Federal funding of the project by the Department of approximately $75 million (about 20 percent of the total cost of approximately $350 million). The industrial partner for this proposed project is York County Energy Partners, L.P., a project c