LS Power Air Permit Application Denied

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) informed Elk Run Energy Associates, LLC, and LS Power Development, LLC, today that their February 29, 2008 construction permit application was denied due to failure to meet an administrative requirement.

Citing 567 Iowa Administrative Code 22.1(3)”b”(9), 22.3(4)”b” and 22.3(7), the DNR Air Quality Bureau determined that Elk Run and LS Power failed to meet the requirement to show legal entitlement to the property at the proposed location. This is a necessary element in the issuance of a construction permit application.

Air Quality Bureau Chief Catharine Fitzsimmons said, “Elk Run and LS Power can submit another construction permit application after revisions are made to meet the objections specified in the application denial. At that time it will be treated as a new project.”

The proposed Elk Run Energy Station is a 750-megawatt coal-fired power plant planned approximately five miles east of downtown Waterloo, just to the east of the Waterloo Northeast Industrial Park.

Questions should be directed to Catharine Fitzsimmons, Air Quality Bureau Chief, at (515) 281-8034.