Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for a Proposed Federal Loan Guarantee To Support Construction and Start-Up of the Indiana Gasification, LLC, Industrial Gasification Facility in Rockport, IN

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces its intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA regulations, and the DOE NEPA implementing procedures to assess the potential environmental impacts for its proposed action of issuing a Federal loan guarantee to Indiana Gasification, LLC (IG) (DOE/EIS-0429). IG submitted an application to DOE under the Federal loan guarantee program pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) to support construction and start-up of a coal to substitute natural gas (SNG) facility in Rockport, Indiana (the Facility).\1\ The Facility would utilize gasification technology with Illinois Basin coal as the feedstock to produce SNG. Other products from the gasification process would be sulfuric acid, argon, and electric power, all of which would be sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------