[Federal Register: December 7, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 234)]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service

 
East Kentucky Power Cooperative; 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 East Kentucky Power Cooperative for financing assistance 
from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to finance the construction of 
the J.K. Smith Unit #4 Combustion Turbine to be located in Clark 
County, Kentucky.

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, e-mail at bquigel@rus.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The J.K. Smith Unit #4 Combustion Turbine 
will be installed adjacent to three existing combustion turbines 
located at East Kentucky Power Cooperative's J.K. Smith Combustion 
Turbine Site located in a rural area approximately 9 miles southeast of 
Winchester, Kentucky, on Kentucky Highway 89. The combustion turbine 
will be fired by natural gas or #2 fuel oil. Natural gas and fuel oil 
will be supplied by an existing natural gas pipeline and fuel oil 
storage facilities on site. The electric output from the combustion 
turbine will be feed to the electric transmission grid via the existing 
J.K. Smith Substation. No additional electric transmission lines are 
needed at this time to operate the additional combustion turbine.
    Copies of the FONSI are available from RUS at the address provided 
herein or from Jeff Hohman, East Kentucky Power Cooperative, PO Box 
707, Winchester, Kentucky 40391, telephone (606) 744-4812.

    Dated: November 24, 1999.
Blaine D. Stockton, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Program, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 99-31366 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]
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