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Louisiana Green Fuels: Government Involvement in the Project

For a project with as critical national importance and exposure as Louisiana Green Fuels, the development company behind the project (Strategic Biofuels) has already had to work with upwards of 27 different Federal, State, and local government agencies and departments. Below is a summary of how the SBF team has interacted with each of the above government bodies:

Federal

  • Office of U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy:

  • Office of U.S. Representative Julia Letlow:

  • Department of Energy: the LGF Phase I application is under review to participate in $1bn in borrowing through the DOE Loan Guarantee Program.

  • Department of Agriculture: The US Forest Service, an agency of the US Department of Agriculture, awarded Startegic Biofuels a cooperative agreement under it Wood Innovations Program for first phase of a multiphase project to develop a robust, auditable cloud—based system for demonstrating compliance of forestry feedscotk with the EPA refulations under the Federal Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”). You can read more about this exiciting development by clicking here.

  • Environmental Protection Agency: the SBF team have applied for Class 6 carbon sequestration well approval from the Dallas office of the EPA, though it is expected that primacy for this approval will be passed off to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (see below).

  • USDA Rural Development, Louisiana Office:

  • Delta Regional Authority (dra.gov – Federal-State partnership, 8 States along the Mississippi Delta):

  • Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency: the Port of Columbia site received a $1mm grant in support of the project. To learn more please click here.

  • Army Corps of Engineers: the project site is next to the Ouachita River whose levees are managed by the Corps, thus carbon sequestration rights under the river in part require the Army’s approval.


State

  • Office of the Governor – John Bel Edwards: the Governor has been a critical supporter of the project since the onset, visiting the site and putting the weight of his office behind the project in a variety of ways.

  • Secretary of State:

  • Department of Natural Resources:

  • Department of Environmental Quality:

  • Tensas Basin Levee District:

  • Louisiana Senate & House of Representatives: explicit legislation exclusively for the location of the LGF project (Caldwell Parish) was passed to restrict oil drilling in to avoid disrupting carbon sequestration locations. Learn more here.

  • Louisiana Economic Development: LED was the department that SBF originally went to when they wanted help to identify potential site locations throughout the State. They have worked closely with the LED ever since then.

  • Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development:

  • The Governor’s Office of Rural Revitalization:

  • State Bond Commission:

  • Louisiana Community Development Authority:

  • Louisiana Department of Revenue:


Local

  • Caldwell Parish Industrial Development Board:

  • Caldwell Parish Police Jury (Parish Government):

  • Port of Columbia Commission:

  • Caldwell Parish School Board:

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