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Environmental Assessment (EA)

Project Name: Responsible Agency:
Department of Energy
Status:
In Progress
POC Name:
Stephen Witmer
POC Title:
NEPA Compliance Officer

Description:

Standard Lithium (also referred to as SWA Lithium) is proposing to design, construct and operate the South West Arkansas Lithium Project located 15 miles west of the City of Magnolia in southwestern Arkansas. The SWA Project is comprised of i) a central processing facility (encompassing approximately 120 acres) that will extract lithium chloride from brine using proprietary direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology and convert it to a purified, battery quality (>99.5%) lithium carbonate product for sale to the electric vehicle market, and ii) a network of extraction and reinjection wells within a unitized mineral lease area of approximately 22,000 gross acres to supply brine from the Smackover Formation to the central processing facility, and then reinject the barren tail brine back into the Smackover Formation.

Milestones:

Determination to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) (Agency Action)
Completed Date:
Issuance of a Draft EA / Release for Public Review (Agency Action)
Completed Date:
Issuance of a Final EA (Agency Action)
Current Target Date:
EA Process Concluded (Agency Action)
Current Target Date: