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U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R.-W.Va., and the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, recently urged the chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to speed up its review process for federal permits. Capito focused her early remarks on the amount of time the Corps' Hun-tington District office has taken to review the permit request filed by Nu-cor Corporation that it needs to build a $3.1 billion sheet steel mill along the Ohio River at Apple Grove, W.Va., about 2 miles below the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam. Construction of the mill would employ about 2,500 to 3,000 workers at its peak. Nucor announced its plans for the mill in January 2022. Much of the mill's raw materials and finished product will move by barge. The company filed its permit application for its in-river work early last year. The Huntington District issued a public notice on May 11, 2022. Nucor later modified the project design, and an amended notice was issued October 5. Early this year, after questions arose about matters of historic and archaeological significance on the site, the district issued a second amended notice on April 21. The public comment period ends May 22. |