[Federal Register: March 11, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 47)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
East Kentucky Power Association; 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 with respect to the
construction and operation of two, 268 megawatt coal-fired electric
generation units in Mason County, Kentucky. East Kentucky Power
Association proposes to construct and operate the units. The Rural
Utilities Service (RUS) may provide financing for the two units.
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: East Kentucky Power Cooperative proposes to
construct two, 268-megawatt coal fired electric generation units at its
Spurlock Station in Maysville, Kentucky. Maysville is located in Mason
County along the Ohio River. The two new generation units are to be
named Gilbert Units 3 and 4. The units would consist of two circulating
fluidized bed boilers, two turbine-generators, two baghouses, two
sulfur dioxide removal systems, two selective non-catalytic reduction
units, and two 720-foot stacks. The project would also include a
double-circuit 345-kilovolt transmission line from the Spurlock Station
to an existing 345-kV transmission line in Brown County, Ohio. The
length of the transmission line would be approximately 3.5 miles and
would parallel an existing 138 kV transmission line that crosses the
Ohio River. Further details of the project are provided in the
environmental assessment.
Copies of the Finding of No Significant Impact are available from
RUS at the address provided herein or from Mr. Bob Hughes of East
Kentucky Power Association, P.O. Box 707, Winchester, Kentucky 40391;
telephone (859) 744-4812 Mr. Hughes's e-mail address is bobh@ekpc.com.
Copies of the environmental assessment are available for review at East
Kentucky Power Association and RUS at the addresses provided herein.
Dated: March 4, 2002.
Blaine D. Stockton,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Program, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 02-5685 Filed 3-8-02; 8:45 am]
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