[Federal Register: September 27, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 188)]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE



Rural Utilities Service



 

Northeast Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of 

Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact



AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.



ACTION: Notice of finding of no significant impact.



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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) 

has made a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) with respect to a 

request from Northeast Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. (NTEC), for 

assistance from RUS to finance its share of the construction of a 

combined cycle combustion turbine generating station and associated 

facilities in Harrison County, Texas.



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis E. Rankin, Environmental 

Protection Specialist, RUS, Engineering and Environmental Staff, Stop 

1571, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-1571, 

telephone: (202) 720-1953 or e-mail: drankin@rus.usda.gov.



SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Entergy Power Generation Corporation is 

constructing a 570 MW combined cycle combustion turbine generating 

station in Harrison County, Texas. The project is located approximately 

8 miles southwest of Marshall, Texas on State Highway 43. Ancillary 

facilities include the utilization of the City of Longview treated 

municipal wastewater via a new 17-mile pipeline. The use of water from 

Caddo Lake has been subsequently dropped from further consideration. 

Transmission line facilities include the construction of 5.5-miles of 

345 kV transmission line from the Pirkey Substation to the Harrison 

County Power Project and the LeBrock Switching Station. A 0.5-mile 

interconnection line will be constructed to loop the existing Pirkey-

Tenaska 345 kV transmission line through the LeBrock Switching Station. 

The transmission facilities will be constructed, operated and 

maintained by Southwestern Electric Power Company.

    Based on its environmental and engineering assessment of the 

project, RUS has concluded that the construction and operation of the 

proposed facilities would have no significant impact to the quality of 

the human environment. Therefore, RUS will not prepare an environmental 

impact statement for its action related to this project.

    Copies of the document are available from RUS at the address 

provided herein.



    Dated: September 23, 2002.

Sylvia M. Green,

Acting Assistant Administrator, Electric Program, Rural Utilities 

Service.

[FR Doc. 02-24596 Filed 9-26-02; 8:45 am]

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