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    USDA to provide $5 million grant to Western Plains

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    By KMAN Staff on April 10, 2012 State News

    OAKLEY, Kan. (AP) An ethanol plant in Oakley will receive a $5 million federal grant to build a machine to improve the process of converting ethanol into fuel.

    U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the grant in a news release Monday. It will provide funds for a biogas anaerobic digester at the Western Plains Energy plant in Oakley.

    Western Plains currently produces about 50 million gallons of ethanol every year in Oakley.

    The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the digester is expected to replace 90 percent of the fossil fuels Western Plains uses to process the fuel with waste from a cattle feedlot.

    The project is expected to create 15 permanent full-time jobs and almost 100 construction jobs.

    The grant comes through USDA Rural Development’s Repowering Assistance Program.

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