Gulf Coast Resources, Inc. , loan-guarantee application: Lee County, Iowa

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5155875

Gulf Coast Resources has requested a loan guarantee to build a fuel ethanol plant having an annual capacity of 79,500 m/sup 3/ (21 x 10/sup 6/ gal) near Keokuk, Iowa. The plant will use dry milled corn feedstock and proven Vogelbusch technology for producing alcohol. Process steam will be produced by burning low-sulfur western coal in a high-pressure boiler. The coal will be supplied by an adjacent railroad-to-barge coal trans-shipment facility. The scope of this environmental assesssment is project- and site-specific. Section 2 describes the project proposed for loan guarantee and the alternatives considered by the applicant. In addition, the alternative of not awarding the loan guarantee is considered. Section 3 describes the environmental setting of the proposed project and Section 4 provides an assessment of the impact of the proposed project on the affected environment. (PSB)

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5155875
• Report Number(s): DOE/EA-0167; ON: DE82019997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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