Roundup Power Project

The Roundup Power Project is a two unit 780 Mw pulverized coal-fired facility, located 35 miles north of Billings, Montana.  It is located adjacent to the Bull Mountains Mine with a reserve of about 2 billion tons of high quality coal.  This mine-mouth plant is equipped with dry scrubbers, SCRs, and pulse jet baghouses for emission controls.

FGS & Associates, LLC was engaged as the overall project manager for the Roundup Power Project.  Our responsibilities were to conduct an initial feasibility study and subsequently, to prepare applications and obtain all permits for the project.  The initial feasibility study included a fatal flaw analysis, corrective action plan, market analysis, and economic evaluation.

FGS conducted the following major activities as a part of the project:

• Strategic and tactical planning and management of all activities.
• Establishment and management of government affairs activities with all appropriate government and regulatory offices.
• Preparation and management of all activities for the Air Quality Permit, MACT Letter, water permits, and the Environmental Impact Statement; all were approved and obtained.
• Management of appeals and legal challenges, providing expert witnesses as required; all appeals and challenges have been successfully defended.
• Air modeling including CALMET/CALPUFF/CALPOST for regional haze analysis.
• Public relations including presentations to public groups and to various Montana legislative committees.
• Management of all transmission studies with the appropriate transmission owners.
• Preliminary engineering, BACT, MACT and economic and construction cost evaluations.