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6 Sites Bid to Host FutureGen's Carbon Storage
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- The companies working with the federal government to develop the FutureGen clean-coal project said Tuesday that they have received six bids from prospective carbon-storage sites around Illinois.

The six bidders are the city of Quincy; Christian County; the city of Tuscola along with Douglas County; Morgan County; Pike County; and the city of Vandalia along with Fayette County, FutureGen spokesman Lawrence Pacheco told the Associated Press. FutureGen hopes to select a site sometime next year.

Tuscola was a finalist to host FutureGen when the project called for the building of a new power plant using carbon capture and sequestration technology that could store the carbon dioxide produced by the plant at the same site. Mattoon, Ill., just south of Tuscola was eventually chosen.

Bryan Moody of Tuscola Economic Development Inc., the local agency behind Tuscola's bid, did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.

The U.S. Department of Energy earlier this year scrapped plans for the new plant, electing instead to use $1.2 billion in federal stimulus money to try out different technology at an existing coal plant in Meredosia in western Illinois. Carbon produced by that plant would be piped to the storage site. The city of Mattoon dropped out of the revised project.

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