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Recent Progress
The project was premised on the need to provide rail service to a livestock feed mill located on an industrial site developed by the Lincoln County Public Development Association (PDA). However, the tenant converted the operation to a biodiesel plant when the construction of the spur was delayed by uncertainties with the state's purchase of the CW Line of the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad. Legal difficulties also occurred between the tenant and the PDA.
The need for the spur remains because the biodiesel plant can operate most efficiently if raw materials are shipped to it by rail. However, because of the difficulties with the current tenant, the State of Washington Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development (CERB) withdrew its grant funds. The PDA is resubmitting a funding package to CERB based on changes in circumstances. CERB will decide whether to approve the package in January 2007.
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