Long Beach : Environmental Study OKd for New Coal Storage Yard
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The Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved an environmental report earlier this week for a $180-million coal storage and exporting yard at a 120-acre site on Terminal Island.
The Los Angeles Export Terminal Corp., which includes U.S. and Japanese investors, must now secure permits form the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The Los Angeles Harbor Department will hold a 15% interest in the facility.
Long Beach residents and officials have called for stringent air pollution control measures. They say that dust from coal, petroleum coke and other coal byproducts stored at the facility will blow into Long Beach.
Los Angeles officials say a water-spray system will be used to control the dust.
The facility, which would replace a 42-acre yard, eventually would store up to 20 million tons of coal and petroleum coke. It would bring 5,900 jobs to the region and is expected to be completed by 1996.
The materials are exported mainly to Japan, Taiwan and Korea, where they are used for fuel and in manufacturing steel and other products.
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