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Environmental Information for Pending and Approved Transactions

1. Listing of major pending transactions classified as Category A that require submission of an environmental impact assessment.

Each of the following transactions has been classified as Environmental Category A, and for these transactions, Ex-Im Bank requires that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) be forwarded by the applicant for Ex-Im Bank's review. Ex-Im Bank also requires that a notice of the availability to interested parties of the EIA be posted on this site for 30 days prior to any issuance of a final commitment. Interested parties wishing to receive a copy of the EIA in order to offer constructive comments to Ex-Im Bank on environmental issues raised by the underlying project should direct their request to:

Environmental Assessments for the following transaction(s) are (or will shortly become) available:

Project	Location	Reference	Further NEPA action required?1	Estimated Annual CO2  Production (tonnes/yr)	Posting Date	Date EIA Available
Crude Petroleum Production & Upgrade to Barrancabermeja Refinery	East Central & Northeast Colombia	AP084891xx			7/21/10	Not Yet Available
Kusile 4,800 MW Coal Fired Power Plant	Mpumalanga Province, South Africa	AP085292xx		30,500,000 (815 g CO2/ kWh) (See NOTE 2)	7/9/10	7/9/10
Strategic Gas Development Program	Onshore/Offshore, Southeast Mexico	AP085221xx	No(1)		5/25/10	5/25/10
Autopista del Coral 70km Highway w/Toll Collection Facilities	La Romana to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic	AP084374xx			5/13/10	5/13/10
Guddu 747MW Combined Cycle Power Plant	Guddu, Sindh, Pakistan	AP084428xx			4/23/10	4/23/10
Sasan Coal Mine and 3,960 MW Power Plant	Sasan, Madhya Pradesh, India	AP084337xx - Denied on 6/24/10 AP085392xx (resubmission)	No(1)	26,400,000 (830 g CO2/ kWh) (See NOTE 2)	3/31/10 7/10/10	Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, including Greenhouse Gas Studies for: - Coal Mine - Power Plant available on 7/26/10
Reficar Oil Refinery	Cartagena, Colombia	AP083939xx		1,400,000	3/30/10	3/30/10
Pannonia Bio-Ethanol Production Facility	Dunafoldvar, Hungary	AP084813xx			3/29/10	3/29/10
Dhuruma (PP11) 1729 MW Power Project	Dhuruma, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	AP084344XX	No(1)	4,200,000	3/23/10	3/23/10
Yanbu Export Refinery Project	Yanbu, Saudi Arabia	AP083667xx		3,800,000	3/10/10	3/10/10
Pascua-Lama Surface Gold-Silver Mine	Frontera District, Atacama Province, Chile and San Juan Province, Argentina	AP085021xx			3/1/10	Not Yet Available
Yeristovo Surface Iron Ore Mine	Near Komsomolsk, Poltava Oblast (Region), Ukraine	AP085051xx			3/1/10	3/22/2010
El Boleo Copper-Cobalt-Zinc Mine	Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico	AP084609xx			9/29/09	- EIA available on 1/6/2010 -Environmental & Social Action Plan available on 5/6/2010 (See NOTE 1)
Albany Golf & Residential Resort	New Providence Island, The Bahamas	AP084353xx			7/22/09	7/22/09
Emirates Aluminum Smelter with a 1950MW Gas Fired Power Plant	Abu Dhabi, UAE	AP084044xx	No(1)	5,000,000	6/4/09	6/4/09
POSCO Power - Incheon Units #5 & #6 1,252MW CC Power Plant	Incheon, Korea	AP084239xx	No(1)	2,100,000	4/23/09	4/23/09
Caykara Weir & 27MW Hydroelectric Power Plant	Town of Caykara, City of Trabzon, Turkey	AP084176xx			4/9/09	Not Yet Available

Footnotes:
¹ Based on Ex-Im Bank’s review of the proposed transaction, Ex-Im has concluded:
    (1)  No major Federal action. 
    (2)  Categorical exclusion applies.

NOTE 1: For environmental information on this project, you may access the following website: http://bajamining.com/boleo/sustainability/

NOTE 2: Annual CO2 Production and the CO2 Intensity are based on initial estimates.

2. List of major pending transactions classified as Category B

Interested parties wishing to provide information to Ex-Im Bank's Engineering and Environment Division about potential environmental issues raised by the following projects should direct their comments to:

Footnotes:
¹  Based on Ex-Im Bank’s review of the proposed transaction, Ex-Im has concluded:
    (1)  No major Federal action. 
    (2)  Categorical exclusion applies.

²  Ordinarily, Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are not prepared for Category B transactions, and Ex-Im Bank does not require an EIA for Category B transactions.  If one is prepared and available (as noted above),  interested parties wishing to receive a copy of the EIA should direct their request to the Engineering and Environment Division at the above contact information.

3- Listing of major Category A transactions for which financing has been approved, with associated environmental requirements and related environmental reports.

For each of the following approved Category A transactions, go to the summary page which lists the material environmental requirements associated with Ex-Im Bank’s financial support and the supplemental environmental reports required of the borrower, including dates when the reports are to be submitted. Interested parties wishing to obtain a copy of a listed report should direct their request to:

Updated: July 28, 2010