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[Federal Register: December 21, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 

Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation; 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 the 
potential environmental impact resulting from a proposal by Nolin Rural 
Electric Cooperative Corporation (Nolin RECC), to construct a new 
headquarters facility in Hardin County, Kentucky. The FONSI is based on 
the Borrower's Environmental Report (BER) prepared for Nolin RECC by 
Gilpin Group Environmental Consulting and Planning. RUS conducted an 
independent evaluation of the report and concurs with its scope and 
content. In accordance with Environmental Policies and Procedures, 
published by the Rural Electrification Administration, the predecessor 
of RUS, at 7 CFR 1794.61, RUS has adopted the Nolin RECC's BER as the 
Environmental Assessment (EA) for the project.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lawrence R. Wolfe, Chief, 
Environmental Compliance Branch, Electric Staff Division, room 1246, 
South Agriculture Building, Rural Utilities Service, Washington, DC 
20250-1500, telephone (202) 720-1784.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed project will utilize 
approximately 15 acres of a 40 acre site and will include the following 
facilities: a 36,500 square foot one story administrative office 
building, an attached 18,000 square foot warehouse building, a 1,300 
square foot building for PCB testing and the storage of grounds 
maintenance equipment, a 37,500 square foot gravel covered pole storage 
yard, a fuel depot for gasoline and diesel fuel with two pumps and two 
above ground fuel storage tanks with a capacity of 2,000 gallons each, 
a radio antenna, a storm water retention pond, a small emergency 
standby diesel electric generating unit with a maximum capacity of 50 
kilowatts, paved entrance and exit drives, and paved vehicle parking 
areas.
    Alternatives examined for the proposed project include no action, 
renovating the existing headquarters building, and constructing the 
facility at alternative sites.
    Based on an independent analysis of the adopted BER, RUS has 
concluded that the construction of the proposed project will have no 
significant impact on air quality, water quality, the 100-year 
floodplain, wetlands, existing land uses, prime and important farmland, 
historic properties, Federally-listed threatened and endangered 
species, species proposed for listing, or designated critical habitat.
    One archaeological site was identified during the Phase I 
archaeological survey conducted on Nolin RECC's preferred site. 
However, Nolin RECC has determined that proposed construction 
activities will not impact the site. In addition, the site will be 
flagged to insure that the archaeological site is not disturbed. No 
other potential significant impacts resulting from the construction and 
use of the proposed facilities at the preferred site have been 
identified. Copies of the EA and FONSI are available for review at, or 
can be obtained from, RUS at the address provided herein or from Nolin 
Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, 612 East Dixie, Elizabethtown, 
Kentucky 42701-1094.

    Dated: December 13, 1994.
Adam M. Golodner,
Deputy Administrator, Program Operations.
[FR Doc. 94-31340 Filed 12-20-94; 8:45 am].
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