[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 121 (Wednesday, June 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34361-34362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16793]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service


Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water; Existing System North/Lyon County 
Phase and Northeast Phase Expansion Project

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) 
will hold a public meeting at 6:00 p.m. on July 30, 1998, at Canby High 
School, 307 1st Street West, Canby Minnesota. In accordance with 40 CFR 
1503.1, Inviting Comments, the purpose of the meeting will be to 
solicit comments from interested parties on the Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water Existing 
System North/Lyon County Phase and Northeast Phase Expansion Project. 
The Draft EIS was published for public review and comment on February 
23, 1998 (63 FR 8901).
    The purpose of the EIS is to evaluate the potential environmental 
impacts of a project proposal located in southwestern Minnesota. The 
proposal to which the Agency is responding to involves providing 
financial assistance for the development and expansion of a public 
rural water system and a review of the environmental impacts from 
previous expansion phase activities. The applicant for this proposal is 
a public body named Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water (LPRW). The LPRW's 
main offices are located in Lake Benton, Minnesota. Specific project 
activities are

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and have included the development of groundwater sources and production 
well fields and the construction of water treatment facilities and 
water distribution networks. The counties in Minnesota affected by this 
proposal include Yellow Medicine, Lincoln, and Lyon Counties and Deuel 
County in South Dakota.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information please contact 
Mark S. Plank, USDA, Rural Utilities Service, Engineering and 
Environmental Staff, 1400 Independence Avenue, Stop 1571, Washington, 
DC 20250, telephone (202) 720-1649, fax (202) 720-0820, or e-mail: 
[email protected] or Jim Maras, RUS Program Director, USDA, Rural 
Development, 410 AgriBank Building, 375 Jackson Street, St. Paul, MN, 
55101-1853, telephone (612) 290-3842 or e-mail: 
[email protected].
    A copy of the Draft EIS or an Executive Summary can be obtained 
over the Internet at http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/ees/environ.htm. The 
files are in a portable document format (pdf); in order to review or 
print the document, users need to obtain a free copy of Acrobat Reader. 
The Acrobat Reader can be obtained from http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/
acrobat/readstep.html

    Dated: June 19, 1998.
Gary J. Morgan,
Director, Engineering and Environmental Staff.
[FR Doc. 98-16793 Filed 6-23-98; 8:45 am]
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