DOE/EA-1762: Finding of No Significant Impact

FONSI for a landfill gas collection and pipeline system to recover waste energy (methane) at the Wellford Landfill in Spartanburg County, SC.

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

September 30, 2010

Wellford Landfill Methane and Greenhouse Gas to Energy Project; Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Based on DOE/EA-1762, DOE issued a finding of no significant impact for awarding a federal grant to Spartanburg County to facilitate the construction and operation of a landfill gas collection and pipeline system to recover waste energy (methane) at the Wellford Landfill in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

For more information, see Wellford Landfill Methane and Greenhouse Gas to Energy Project.

  • EA-1762-FONSI-2010.pdf
    The Department of Energy has provided a grant to Spartanburg County and would authorize the County to continue to expend Federal funding to design, permit, and construct a landfill gas project to capture methane from the Wellford Landfill and use that gas to generate power for local industries.