[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 2483]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1417]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service


Barry Electric Cooperative; 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 by Barry Electric Cooperative to use its general funds to 
construct a new headquarters facility in Barry County, Missouri. The 
FONSI is based on a borrower's environmental report (BER) submitted to 
RUS by Barry Electric Cooperative. RUS conducted an independent 
evaluation of the report and concurs with its scope and content. In 
accordance with RUS Environmental Policies and Procedures, 7 CFR Part 
1794.61, RUS has adopted the BER as its environmental assessment for 
the project.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lawrence R. Wolfe, Senior 
Environmental Protection Specialist, Engineering and Environmental 
Staff, RUS, Ag. Box 1569, Washington, D.C. 20250-1569, telephone (202) 
720-1784.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The headquarters facility is proposed to be 
located just north of Cassville adjacent to Highway 37 in Section 17, 
Township 23 North, Range 27 West. The size of the proposed site for the 
headquarters facility is approximately 30 acres of which 10 acres would 
be developed.
    The headquarters facility would consist of a 7,000 square foot 
office, a 35,000 square foot warehouse and 850 square foot covered 
storage building, and approximately 36,000 square feet of open storage 
area for poles, transformers, dumpsters, service and field employee 
vehicles, radio antenna, and salvage. The facility will also include 
parking for the cooperative employees and the public and a drive 
through depository window.
    The buildings to be constructed will be pre-engineered metal. The 
parking and drive lanes will be a hard surface of either asphalt or 
concrete. The covered and open storage area will be surfaced with 
crushed rock and surrounded by a chain-link fence.
    RUS considered the alternative of taking no action that would 
approve Barry Electric Cooperative's construction of the proposed 
headquarters facility.
    Copies of the BER and FONSI are available for review at, or can be 
obtained from, RUS at the address provided herein or from Mr. Earle W. 
Shiveley, Barry Electric Cooperative, P.O. Box 307, 100 Main Street, 
Cassville, Missouri 65625, telephone (417) 847-2131.

    Dated: January 22, 1996.
Adam M. Golodner,
Deputy Administrator, Program Operations.
[FR Doc. 96-1417 Filed 1-25-96; 8:45 am]
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