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27 September 2006 -- Salt River Project, a 20 percent owner of the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, US, is accelerating efforts to return the plant to service. As part of these efforts, SRP will seek a new ownership group to participate in the project and will consider increasing SRP's ownership share of the plant to provide energy for the growing Phoenix metropolitan area.
The 1,580 MW plant has been shut down since December 2005 because of a Clean Air Act settlement that required pollution control upgrades, a new water supply and coal delivery improvements. In June 2006, Southern California Edison, the majority owner and operator of Mohave, and two other co-owners, Nevada Power Co. and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, announced they would no longer pursue a restart of the plant.
SRP has met with the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) regarding the efforts required to complete the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the project. SRP has requested OSM and other cooperating agencies to resume work on the EIS as soon as possible. SRP intends to work with OSM and others to publish a draft EIS and schedule public hearings so that the final EIS can be published by Summer, 2007.
The EIS covers Peabody Western Coal Co.'s mines near Kayenta, Arizona; the 273-mile slurry pipeline that carries coal from the mine to the Mohave plant in Laughlin; and the development of a new system to supply water from the Coconino Aquifer near Leupp, Arizona and the transfer of that water 108 miles to the mine for use in the slurry pipeline and coal-mining process.
In addition to completing the EIS, a number of steps must be completed before Mohave can resume operations. These steps include, among others, the construction of approximately $500 million in additional pollution-control systems to significantly reduce emissions from the plant. The new emission-control systems will include advanced retrofit technology.
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