Project Area 1 (sponsor: Show Me Energy Cooperative, Centerview, MO) — up to 50,000 acres of perennial native grasses and forbs, such as Switchgrass, Big Bluestem, Illinois Bundleflower and Purple Prairie Clover, in addition to existing suitable stands of native grasses, legumes and forbs in:
Missouri (Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway, Cass, Carroll, Chariton, Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Daviess, Harrison, Henry, Howard, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Morgan, Pettis, Platte, Ray, Saint Clair, Saline and Vernon) Kansas (Atchison, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte)
Project Area 2 (sponsor: MFA Oil Biomass LLC, Paragould, AR) — up to 6,588 acres of giant miscanthus in:
Arkansas (Clay, Craighead, Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett, and Randolph)
Project Area 3 (sponsor: MFA Oil Biomass LLC, Columbia, MO) — up to 3,400 acres of giant miscanthus in:
Missouri (Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau, Monroe and Randolph)
Project Area 4 (sponsor: MFA Oil Biomass LLC, Aurora, MO) — up to 3,850 acres of giant miscanthus in:
Missouri (Barry, Christian, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton and Stone)
Project Area 5 (sponsor: Aloterra Energy LLC,Ashtabula, OH) — up to 5,344 acres of giant miscanthus in:
Ohio (Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake and Trumbull) Pennsylvania (Crawford, Erie, Mercer)
Project Area 6 (sponsor: Beaver Biodiesel LLC, Albany, OR) — up to 1,000 acres of camelina in:
Oregon (Jefferson, Klamath, Umatilla, Union and Wasco counties) Washington (Whitman County)
Project Area 7 (sponsor: Abengoa Bioenergy LLC, Hugonot, KS) — up to 20,000 of perennial native grasses and forbs, such as switchgrass in:
Kansas (Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, and Stevens counties) Oklahoma (Texas County)
Project Area 8 (sponsor: Altair Fuels LLC, Bakersfield, CA and Tacoma, WA) — up to a total of 50,000 acres of camelina, distributed as follows in:
California (Butte, Colusa, Fresno, Glenn, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Riverside, Sacramento, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Solano, Stanislaus, Tehama, Tulare, and Yolo counties) up to 25,000 acres Montana (all 56 counties) up to 15,000 acres Washington (Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Okanogan, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla and Whitman counties) up to 10,000 acres
Project Area 9 (sponsor: ZeaChem, Inc., Boardman, OR) — up to 7,002 acres of hybrid poplar in:
Oregon (Morrow County)
The sign-up period for the four most recently announced project areas (project areas 6 through 9) began Aug. 8, 2011. The sign-up period for project area 1 began May 9, 2011. The sign-up period for project areas 2 through 5 began June 20, 2011. Producers interested in participating in BCAP in these project areas should visit their local FSA county office. Information about BCAP may be found online at www.fsa.usda.gov/bcap.
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