[Federal Register: December 10, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 237)]
[Notices]
[Page 63670]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Georgia Transmission Corporation; Notice of 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 Georgia Transmission Corporation for assistance from the
RUS to finance the construction of a 230 kV transmission line and a
230/25 kV substation in Hall County, Georgia.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Quigel, Environmental Protection
Specialist, Engineering and Environmental Staff, RUS, Stop 1571, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-1571, telephone (202)
720-0468, fax (202) 720-0820, e-mail at bquigel@rus.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: No comments were received by RUS via e-mail
or telephone during the 30-day comment period, which closed on November
23, 2001. However, mail service to the U.S. Department of Agriculture
has been disrupted during the comment period due to screening of mail
for potential anthrax contamination. Any person that sent written
comments on the environmental assessment through the U.S. Postal
Service to RUS during the comment period should contact RUS at the
telephone number listed above within 5 working days of this notice to
ensure their comments are considered prior to project construction.
Should RUS conclude that any written comments that may have been
submitted during the official comment period warrant further review and
would cause reconsideration of RUS' decision, the public would be so
notified. Otherwise, this FONSI notice will serve as the final public
notice of this project.
The transmission line will tap off of the existing 230 kV
Gainesville #2--Winder transmission line at a point approximately \1/2\
mile southeast of the junction of Lee Land Road and Webb Girth Road.
The transmission line will traverse approximately 8.25 miles in a
southwesterly direction paralleling Georgia Power Company's 500 kV
Norcross-Oconee transmission line to the proposed 230/25 kV Spout
Spring Substation which is to be located approximately 2000 feet east
of the intersection of Williams Road and Spout Springs Road. The
transmission line and substation would require virtually no clearing or
major earth movement activities. The transmission line support
structures will be between 60 and 80 feet tall. The substation will
require 2.25 acres.
Copies of the FONSI are available for review at, or can be obtained
from, RUS at the address provided herein or from Ms. Wende Martin,
Georgia Transmission Corporation, 2100 East Exchange Place, Tucker,
Georgia 30085-2088, telephone (770) 270-7591. Ms. Martin's e-mail
address is wende.martin@gatrans.com.
Dated: December 4, 2001.
Alfred Rodgers,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Electric Program, Rural Utilities
Service.
[FR Doc. 01-30454 Filed 12-7-01; 8:45 am]
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