An international company fabricating resin liners for a new pollution control stack at the Basin Electric Power Cooperative Leland Olds power plant near Stanton plans to rebuild after fire destroyed its on-site construction building last month.

In the meantime, Plasticon Inc. workers have been able to hand-build the last remaining liner section for one of the plant's units, but still have all the liners for the second unit yet to complete, spokesman Floyd Robb said.

Robb said the company has located a new fabrication building that will be set up at the plant next week.

Basin is two years into a $410 million construction project that involves a new scrubber and emission stack to clean up sulfur dioxide and other pollutants.

Plasticon Inc. is building two resin chimneys - one for each unit of the plant - that will go inside the new 600-foot emission stack.

The Oct. 14 fire started inside the fabrication building and local volunteer firefighters battled strong nighttime winds to contain the blaze. Highway traffic was diverted and rural residents downwind were evacuated for several hours until officials could be sure no chemical plume would endanger human health. Robb said the burned out structure and rubble have been cleared from the site.

The overall schedule remains on track and Basin still expects to go on line with its new pollution control system in 2009 for Unit II and 2010 for Unit I, Robb said.