The Department of Energy will prepare an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the Indiana Gasification project. The DOE is a lead federal agency for the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, review of the project and the lead agency in the preparation of the EIS. The DOE has requested the Corps of Engineers to prepare the EIS for the Indiana Gasification project to satisfy the NEPA requirements.

A meeting was held on December 3, 2009 to provide local residents an opportunity to comment on the proposed Indiana Gasification coal to substitute natural gas project.

On November, 2009, the DOE issued a notice of intent to prepare an EIS for this project. The scope and comment period officially ends on December 14th, 2009.

During the review of the project the DOE will assemble information from a variety of sources including the applicant, the public, other state, local and federal agencies and their own independent analysis.