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American
Ethanol Plant
Applicant: American
Ethanol, Inc. (AEI), 2320 Thompson Way,
Suite L, Santa Maria, CA 93455; (805)
925-0999; David Baskett, President;
Richard Hulme, Vice President Operations.
Project Description:
- Develop an ethanol production
plant.
- Proposed plant site is at the southeast
corner of Betteravia and Ray Rds.,
about 2 miles west of the City of Santa
Maria.
- Proposed plant capacity – 110
million gallons per year (mmgy) of
ethanol.
- Corn brought in via rail from Midwest
:
Two 100-unit trains per week (200 cars per week) would
be separated into 25-car strings at the existing Guadalupe
switchyard and delivered to the plant site for offloading.
- Process water to be supplied by
the Laguna County Sanitation District.
- Products: Ethanol for blending with
gasoline and distiller’s grain
for livestock feed.
Potential Issues: Air
quality, increased rail yard activity
at Guadalupe, plant odors, wastewater
disposal, train and truck traffic, noise.
What's
New: As of June 2009, preparation of the EIR is still on hold, pending the applicant’s resolution of certain issues and consideration of potential changes to the project. Depending on the scale of any project changes, Energy Division staff will determine whether a new Request for Proposals for the EIR should be issued or if the proposals already submitted can be amended to incorporate changes to the project description or other necessary revisions. Please contact Nancy Minick or Kevin Drude at the Energy Division for more information.
Project Status:
- Permit processing suspended May 2008.
- Request for EIR proposals issued
February 15, 2008; proposals due March
10.
- EIR Scoping comments closed February
8, 2008.
- Scoping
Meeting held January 10,
2008. View hearing at http://sbcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5;
select “Video” under Ethanol
Scoping Meeting, click
here for staff presentation.
- Initial
Study completed December
20, 2007
- Application
deemed complete for further processing
on November
7, 2007.
- Conditional
Use Permit/Development Plan application
filed May
3, 2007
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