[Federal Register: March 11, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 47)]

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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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