Army Corps to Hold Hearing on Proposed Battery Plant at Lordstown, Ohio
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Plans to build a $2.3 billion electric battery assembly plant near General Motors Corp.’s shuttered automobile plant in Lordstown, Ohio, will be reviewed during a March 12 public hearing in Lordstown.
General Motors is applying for approval on behalf of GigaPower of South Korea, which wants to build a mass-production, battery-cell manufacturing plant for electric vehicles.
GM, which closed the Lordstown plant last year, is entering into a joint venture with GigaPower on the new plant. GM hopes to begin work at the new battery-making plant later this year.
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The Lordstown plant closing cost about 1,600 jobs at that site, although many workers took other GM jobs. An investment group backed by an electric truck maker in Cincinnati, Workhorse Group Inc., bought the shuttered plant last year.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will review the information from the public meeting.
Information gathered during this meeting will be considered while evaluating the application to the Corps of Engineers for the permit. The federal agency said it will grant GM the permit unless it is found to be against the public’s interest.
Statements made at the hearing or to the Army Corps before the hearing will be considered in the final determination. Any objections submitted before the hearing may be forwarded to the applicant for possible resolution before a decision is made.
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