Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and To Conduct a Public Scoping Meeting, and Notice of Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement To Support Construction and Startup of the Mississippi Gasification, LLC, Industrial Gasification Facility in Moss Point, MS

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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 (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA regulations, and the DOE NEPA implementing procedures to assess the potential environmental impacts for its proposed actions of issuing a Federal loan guarantee to Mississippi Gasification, LLC, (MG) and providing co-funding in a Cooperative Agreement with Leucadia Energy, LLC (Leucadia) and Denbury Onshore, LLC (Denbury) (DOE/EIS-0428). In addition, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard will be cooperating agencies in the preparation of the EIS. MG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leucadia National Corporation, 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 startup of the MG Industrial Gasification Facility (the Facility) in Moss Point, Mississippi. Leucadia and Denbury submitted an application to DOE for a cost-shared Cooperative Agreement pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA 2009) and Section 7