MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE

| February 13, 2007 8:00 PM

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Washington State Department of Ecology and the City of Moses Lake has issued a Mitigated Determination of Non-significance (MDNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the following project and location: Construction and operation of a corn based 100 million gallon per year ethanol production facility with associated activities. The ethanol production facility will be located at 13583 Wheeler Road NE, Moses Lake, within the NE1/4 of Section 20, Township 19 North, Range 29 East Willamette Meridian, in Grant County. The project proposal was submitted by Washington Ethanol LLC, 530 Quintanilla Drive, Moses Lake, WA 98837. After review of the completed Environmental Checklist and other information on file with the agency, Ecology and the City of Moses Lake have made a preliminary determination that the proposal will not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. Copies of the Environmental Checklist and the Mitigated Determination of Non-significance are available at no charge from the Washington State Department of Ecology, Air Quality Program, 4601 N. Monroe, Spokane, WA 99205-1295 or from the City of Moses Lake, South 321 Balsam Street P.O. Box Drawer 1579, Moses Lake WA 98837- 0244. The public and other interested parties are invited to comment to Ecology on this project proposal by submitting written comments within fourteen (14) days of this notice to Gregory S. Flibbert at the above address.

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February 13, 2007

BEFORE THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

OF GRANT COUNTY, WASHINGTON

In the matter of the Application of

Noanet, Inc. NOTICE OF HEARING

for a franchise to ON APPLICATION

enter upon, construct, FOR A COUNTY operate and maintain ROAD FRANCHISE

certain facilities upon

County Roads in Grant

County

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Noanet,

Inc., has filed with the Board of County

Commissioners of Grant County, Washington, an

application for a franchise for a period of fifty (50)

years to construct, operate and maintain a fiberoptic

line under & along certain County roads in Grant

County, Washington lying within the following

described portion of the County, to-wit:

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Grant County, Washington, has fixed the hearing on said application for the franchise for the 28 day of February, 2007 at the hour of 9 o'clock AM in the Board of County Commissioners' room in the Grant County Courthouse in Ephrata, Grant County, State of Washington, and any person may appear at this time and place to be heard for or against the granting or denying of said franchise or any part thereof.

DATED this 9 day of February, 2007

/s/ William L. Varney

Auditor of Grant County, Washington

BY____________________________

Deputy

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February 13, 20, 2007