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SunCoke air permit hearing moved

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By Jessica Heffner, Staff Writer Updated 1:41 PM Monday, August 31, 2009

MIDDLETOWN — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has moved the hearing scheduled to discuss the New Source Review air permit applied for by SunCoke Energy.

The hearing will now be held Wednesday, Sept. 2, in Finkleman Auditorium at the Miami University Middletown campus, 4200 E. University Blvd., Middletown.

To allow people time to come to the new location, the hearing and information session will begin at 6:45 p.m. instead of 6:30 p.m. There will also be signs on the Campus Community Center doors directing people to the new venue, according to the Ohio EPA.

After several calls about the hearing, the university contacted the Ohio EPA and requested the event be moved to the auditorium so there would be enough room for everyone, said Heather Lauer, spokeswoman for the Ohio EPA.

The hearing regards the new $340 million coke oven facility SunCoke intends to build in Middletown off Yankee Road. The facility will provide coke, a vital raw material in steelmaking, and energy to nearby AK Steel’s Middletown Works for at least the next 20 years.

This is the second Ohio EPA air permit the company has requested for the plant.

Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2843 or jheffner@coxohio.com.

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