Reply #30: Would you like to review the draft Environmental Assessment?

[kristopher]

http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=76222351546264&setlang=en-US&w=8a09dc76,597de716

This is the google cache page, there is a link to download report at the top.

Basically it looks like there are three separate burning facilities; a 19MW turbine and two furnaces to boil water for steam heat in the facility (which is DOE's Savannah River Nuclear Processing Site). The snip below is just for the facility generating electricity.

Clean biomass would make up 70-100 percent of the fuel source for the cogeneration plant. Up to 400,000 tons a year of biomass, depending primarily on the moisture content of the wood, would be processed in the proposed plant. The clean biomass would consist of: • Forest Logging Residues : Material not typically harvested or removed from logging sites in commercial hardwood and softwood operations as well as material resulting from forest management operations such as precommercial thinning and removal of dead and dying trees and in reduction of hazardous wildland fire fuels; • Low-Value Forest Products : Typically small trees and top wood, and defective or deformed trees normally used for pulp and composite material manufacturing, but usually of such low value as to make their cost for transportation marginal; • Wood Waste Residues : Bark and woody materials that are generated in primary wood-using mills when roundwood products are converted to other products. Examples are slabs, edgings, trimmings, sawdust, shavings, veneer cores and clippings, pulp screenings, bark residues and other wood waste;

Urban Wood Waste : The portion of the waste stream that can include discarded wood products, whole trees, pruned branches or stumps generated during street and park maintenance. The primary constituents of urban wood waste are used lumber, trim, shipping pallets, trees, branches, and other wood debris from construction and demolition clearing and grubbing activities. BDF would make up to 30 percent of the heat input source for the cogeneration plant. The BDF would consist of tire-derived fuel (TDF) coming from scrap tires brought to transfer stations and to landfills. The maximum permitted amount of BDF processed in the proposed facility would be approximately 1.1 million British thermal units (mbtu) /year or 43,000 tons of tires/year. Additionally, each biomass boiler would be capable of burning fuel oil in the event the biomass feed system fails. As fuel oil is used, the biomass consumption would decrease. Five percent of the fuel input for the proposed cogeneration plant could be fuel oil. This consumption would vary, as it would be a backup fuel only. The delivery trucks would enter SRS using a primary road to the plant entrance and a deceleration lane would be added for trucks to enter the biomass plant as part of this project. Once on site, the trucks would be unloaded using a truck dumper. The trucks would exit behind the plant where a new traffic light would be installed. The current graveled road would be paved to support the biomass truck deliveries. Peak truck traffic would be 7 to 8 trucks an hour 5 days a week, 8 hour operation. A fire suppression system would be part of the cogeneration fuel storage area.