Ultium Cells Battery Manufacturing Facility; Lansing, MI
In August 2022, the DOE Loans Program Office (LPO) prepared an EA (DOE/EA-2189) to address the procurement and installation of battery-manufacturing equipment (i.e., tooling) in an existing facility in Lordstown, Ohio, and the construction and tooling of the Spring Hill, Tennessee, facility, and the construction of a recycling building at the Spring Hill facility. At that time, the information regarding construction and tooling of the Lansing battery-manufacturing facility was not yet ripe to support a decision by LPO about whether to provide financial assistance for that phase of the Project; therefore, the Lansing site was not included in the scope of DOE/EA-2189 for the Lordstown, Ohio, and Spring Hill, Tennessee, facilities.
This Supplemental EA (DOE/EA-2189-S1) allows LPO to consider the environmental impacts of its action (i.e., financial assistance/ATVM loan) to support the construction and tooling of the battery-manufacturing facility and site preparation of the recycling building in Lansing, Michigan. Therefore, the scope of the Proposed Action (providing a loan to Ultium) encompasses the construction and tooling of a new battery cell manufacturing facility and site preparation of a recycling building in Lansing, Michigan.