Transportation, Infrastructure and Incentives

Multimodal range and flexibility for rapid shipping.
Deliver products faster and fresher with a choice of shipping routes, including:

• Interstate and highway: Adjacent to I-69, SWIM connects your operation to rapid interstate highway delivery and to high-visibility frontage if desired. Elevate your brand and get your products to customers and consumers quickly. Reach 80% of the nation’s population within a one-day drive as you leverage Indiana’s #5 ranked infrastructure.
• Dual Class I Rail: Through onsite NS and Indiana Southern connections, with Indiana Southern linking to CSX intermodal facilities less than 60 miles away. Providing blanket coverage of Eastern markets as well as transcontinental access CSX and NS are the nation’s leading Class I carriers, and preferred providers for agricultural and consumer shipping.
• Top-tonnage Port: Approximately 60 miles away, Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon, the state’s largest port, is also the nation’s closest major port to the median center of the U.S. population and a major gateway for agricultural products.
• Global Air Cargo: While the Evansville Regional Airport is just 30 minutes away, the Indianapolis International Airport and the Mohammed Ali Louisville International Airport are both just two hours away. Home of the world’s 2nd largest FedEx air facilities, the Indianapolis International Airport moves over a million tons of time and temperature-sensitive cargo annually. Home of the world’s largest UPS air facilities, the Mohammed Ali Louisville International Airport ranks as #3 in North America in total amount of cargo handled.

High-capacity utility infrastructure.
SWIM is ready to power peak performance with:

• Electrical infrastructure including 12 kV, 69 kV, 138 kV, and dual 345kV transmission lines, with adjacent service in some areas and proximity to a substation.
• Dual 10” natural gas lines, with proximity to a third.
• High-capacity water and wastewater capacity: 1MGD water capacity with the capability to swiftly double the capacity, and .5 MGD wastewater treatment in a currently expanding infrastructure. The region’s abundant lake, river and aquifer resources also allow for substantial expansion of cooling water capacity.
• Multiple fiber feeds from leading telecommunications providers.

Game-changing incentives unique to SWIM.
SWIM’s location in a coal-impacted region opens the opportunity for a unique and significant tax credit in addition to SWIM’s other incentives. Qualified projects may receive:

• A transferrable tax credit equaling the lesser of either 30% of the entire qualified investment or $5 million, up to $25 million over a five-year period.
• Economic Development for a Growing Economy (EDGE) refundable Indiana tax credit, phased in annually up to 10 years, based on the jobs created.
• Local tax abatement on real property and machinery and equipment.
• Sales tax exemptions on raw materials, equipment and power.
• Local Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for infrastructure and construction.
• Local assistance in site improvement and utility extension through Industrial Revenue Bonds and other funding.
• Discretionary grants and refundable credits.

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