Months ago, Kosciusko Development Inc.was asked by the Louis Dreyfus Corp.to secure land purchase options. KDI chairman Roger Moynahan said Wednesday the company requested KDI to transfer those options to them, in exchange for reimbursement, which was approved by the board. In a May announcement, Dreyfus proposed building a $100 million soybean processing plant near Claypool as phase one of a three-step process, which includes a biodiesel plant and ethanol plant. "This does not mean they will exercise those options," Moynahan said."This only tells me they are interested.We do hope it all works out for the county and the company." President Joy McCarthy-Sessing said she talked to Mickey Maurer of the Indiana Economic Development Commission a couple of weeks ago.Maurer said, according to McCarthy-Sessing, the state is ready to close the deal, the company is not.An air permit is pending with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016